Nadine Dorries reported to Lindsay Hoyle over ‘forceful’ messages about peerage

Nadine Dorries has been reported to the Commons Speaker by the UK’s most senior civil servant over claims she despatched “forceful” messages about why she didn’t obtain her peerage on Boris Johnson‘s resignation honours listing.

Cabinet Secretary Simon Case advised MPs on the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee that he had “flagged” communications from the Johnson loyalist to senior officers to each Sir Lindsay Hoyle and Tory chief whip Simon Hart.

During the session yesterday, Tory MP and committee chairman William Wragg requested Mr Case if he was conscious of “any rather forceful communications” despatched by Ms Dorries “to senior civil servants” about probably utilizing “the platform of the Commons and indeed her own television programme to get to the bottom of why she hadn’t been given a peerage?”

Mr Case stated: “Yes, was aware of those communications and have flagged them to both the chief whip and Speaker of the House.”

The high civil servant added that he had taken authorized recommendation on whether or not a legislation designed to stop interference within the honours system could have been breached.

But a buddy of the previous tradition secretary denied claims of “forceful” messages.

The supply advised The Times: “It is complete nonsense. She was probably upset on the day at the way she had been treated but she’s not aggressive. She has been very badly served.”

Ms Dorries has accused Rishi Sunak of blocking her peerage, which Downing Street has denied.

She introduced her resignation as an MP final month after her title didn’t seem on Boris Johnson’s honours listing.

But she is but to formally stand down from her Mid Bedfordshire seat as she seeks solutions over the lacking peerage.

It comes because it was confirmed that Ms Dorries has written a ebook titled The Plot: The Political Assassination Of Boris Johnson.

It can be printed days earlier than the Tory Party convention in September in a headache for Mr Sunak.

The former prime minister’s staunch ally claims to have uncovered a “fault line” inside the Conservative Party by conversations with Cabinet ministers, civil servants and celebration officers which type the idea of her account.

The ebook, for which Ms Dorries obtained £20,500 as a partial advance from HarperCollins, is billed because the story of “treachery and deceit at the heart of the Westminster machine”.

It is ready to hit the stands on September 28 – simply three days earlier than Conservatives convene for the annual celebration convention on October 1.