Mrs Bridgen says autobiography will accuse senior Tories of ‘racism’

May 03, 2023 at 1:20 AM
Mrs Bridgen says autobiography will accuse senior Tories of ‘racism’

The spouse of expelled Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen has mentioned her forthcoming autobiography about life because the spouse of a politician will embrace claims that senior Conservative MPs made “racist” feedback about her. Speaking on GB News tonight, she revealed figures in her husband’s ex-party “made me feel like a second-class citizen”.

Mrs Bridgen alleged that one Conservative determine advised her husband to “put your wife on a leash”, with an implicit warning that if she was not “tamed there will be clear consequences”

She advised GB News viewers she is now relishing in her and her husband’s new-found “freedom to speak”, and he or she plans on utilizing it to “reveal everything that was going on for the six years” she spent behind the scenes in Westminster.

She mentioned: “From the first visit to Chequers under Theresa May in my official initiation into political life behind the scenes and initiation into the Conservative club; through ups and downs, three and a half PMs, about how they made me feel as a second-class citizen.”

She claimed she would element “many other scandals and experiences.”

“I’m not going to carry again, I’m going to say the way it was, how it’s, how I communicate, how I skilled it, they usually can prefer it or not however I’ll inform my reality,” she added.

Invited to name the individuals who made ‘racist’ comments during the interview, Mrs Bridgen declined but didn’t rule out publicly shaming senior Tories who made the comments in her forthcoming book.

Asked whether the racist comments came from Cabinet Ministers or higher, she replied: “I’m talking very high profile politicians in the Conservative Party”.

“Many of them: women and men.”

Presenter Dan Wootton asked whether Conservative politicians should be “nervous” about her book.

Mrs Bridgen replied: “They can be whatever they want, frankly, I’m not bothered about that.”

“I’m more into revealing those big ‘moral giants’ that people are voting for; people have a right to know who they are and how they treat people.”

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Last week, express.co.uk was the first to reveal Nevena Bridgen’s plans to write an explosive biography.

Friends told the Express that Mrs Bridgen, a Serbian professional opera singer, is planning an exposé more dramatic than the storylines she performs on the stage.

Mrs Bridgen passionately defended her husband, who was expelled as a Tory MP over a tweet describing Covid vaccines as “the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust”.

It emerged he had also had his party membership suspended.

Mrs Bridgen denied claims of anti-Semitism, arguing he would have “never been invited to a Westminster Synagogue to speak to the Jewish community” if he were antisemitic.

She said the accusation of antisemitism is an “instrument to go against him and assassinate his character”.

Asked about rumours that she and her husband are planning on defecting to Laurence Fox’s Reclaim Party Mrs Bridgen said she could not confirm anything, adding: “We’ll see”.