Dorries claims Boris will not return to frontline politics and slams Partygate saga
Nadine Dorries has mentioned former Prime Minister Boris Johnson is not going to be making a return to frontline politics, claiming it’s “the last thing on his mind”.
The former tradition secretary had an early hours cellphone name with the Prime Minister, who’s at present within the United States.
She mentioned Mr Johnson gave her the “strong impression” that he has no plans for a comeback, despite current rumours.
Speaking on her Talk TV present, Ms Dorries additionally slammed the most recent developments within the Partygate saga, saying the previous PM was blindsided by it.
She mentioned: “Long after Oliver Cromwell had been lifeless and been buried, possessed, fearful and irrational males dug up his physique and publicly executed him.
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“Let’s face it – some in Westminster what they concern greater than something, is the return of Boris Johnson and they’re going to go to any lengths to make sure that they forestall that from occurring as they let their imaginations run riot and lead them down the paths of devious intent.
“Well I’ve got news for them, Boris Johnson has gone.
“When I spoke to him at 4am yesterday morning US time, I acquired the sturdy impression that making a return is the very last thing on his thoughts.”
Mr Johnson’s office and allies emphatically denied any wrongdoing whatsoever, saying: “Lawyers have examined the occasions in query and suggested that they had been lawful.”
The Cabinet Office said civil servants were doing their job, as required by the Civil Service Code.
This came after it emerged that Cabinet Office civil servants had sent extracts from Boris Johnson’s official diary to the police, alleging they showed him to have broken lockdown rules while staying at his grace-and-favour mansion Chequers.
Speaking about the developments, Ms Dorries said: “A number of days in the past simply as he was about to depart for his journey to the US he was knowledgeable, with out prior warning, that diaries compiled by civil servants which he had not written in or had ever even seen, had been despatched to the police by a high-handed civil servant who additionally wrote to the Privileges Committee and steered in his masking letter that Boris could have breached Covid legal guidelines.”
The longtime ally of Mr Johnson went on to explain: “Let me simply inform you concerning the official diary and file maintaining course of which takes place inside Government.
The Cabinet Office mentioned civil servants had been doing their job, as required by the Civil Service Code.
This got here after it emerged that Cabinet Office civil servants had despatched extracts from Boris Johnson’s official diary to the police, alleging they confirmed him to have damaged lockdown guidelines whereas staying at his grace-and-favour mansion Chequers.
Speaking concerning the developments, Ms Dorries mentioned: “A few days ago just as he was about to leave for his trip to the US he was informed, without prior warning, that diaries compiled by civil servants which he had not written in or had ever even seen, had been sent to the police by a high-handed civil servant who also wrote to the Privileges Committee and suggested in his covering letter that Boris may have breached Covid laws.”
The longtime ally of Mr Johnson went on to clarify: “Let me just tell you about the official diary and record keeping process which takes place within Government.
“They are in impact official state data – a minute-by-minute, line-by-line account of a Prime Minister’s each single motion.
“In the case of Boris, they are over 10,000 pages long and even Sue Gray who had access to those diaries failed to think there was anything significant in there to include in her report or even to discuss with the Met.
“I’m very positive that if there was something in there, she would’ve discovered it.
“They are completed by junior civil servants in the private office and they are frequently wrong!
“The element the incorrect individuals, the incorrect locations, the incorrect instances, and the incorrect dates even.”
She added: “The Privileges Committee has the ability to suggest suspending Boris from Parliament for ten days which might finish his profession as an MP and would result in a by-election.”
Yesterday, it emerged that the official Covid inquiry has threatened the Government with legal action if it does not release Mr Johnson’s WhatsApp messages and diary entries unredacted.
But the Cabinet Office has argued some of the material is “unambiguously irrelevant” to the scope of the inquiry, with Downing Street insisting that the Government is supplying “all related materials.”