Nadine Dorries formally quits as MP and immediately will get ‘new job’

Nadine Dorries has formally give up as an MP after lastly handing in her resignation over the weekend.

The Treasury confirmed Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has appointed her to be Steward and Bailiff of the Three Hundreds of Chiltern, the archaic mechanism for exiting the Commons earlier than the tip of a Parliament. 

The former tradition secretary tweeted the affirmation and quipped that she had a “new job”.

The historic place of Steward and Bailiff of the Three Hundreds of Chiltern is an unpaid, formal title.

The archaic course of instantly disqualifies an individual by legislation from being an MP and due to this fact removes them from the Commons.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak mentioned he’s “grateful” to Nadine Dorries for her service to Parliament.

Speaking on a go to to a new-build housing property close to Norwich, he mentioned: “I’m grateful to Nadine for her service both as an MP and a minister.

“We are wanting ahead, and delighted to help our implausible candidate in Mid Beds, Festus Akinbusoye, who’s the native candidate, the one native candidate on this election; additionally the native police and crime commissioner.

“He’s got a fantastic track record of already standing up for local people, and I hope he can continue to do that as a new member of Parliament.”

The Boris Johnson loyalist resigned final Friday with a scathing assault on Mr Sunak.

Ms Dorries had introduced in June that she would give up the Commons with “immediate effect” in protest at not getting a peerage in Boris Johnson’s resignation honours listing, however had did not comply with via for 11 weeks.

In her blistering resignation letter, Ms Dorries mentioned Mr Sunak had deserted “the fundamental principles of Conservatism” and mentioned “history will not judge you kindly”.

She wrote: “Since you took office a year ago, the country is run by a zombie Parliament where nothing meaningful has happened.

“You don’t have any mandate from the individuals and the Government is adrift. You have squandered the goodwill of the nation, for what?”

Ms Dorries accused the PM of leading attacks on her resulting in “the police having to go to my dwelling and speak to me on quite a few events because of threats to my particular person”.

She said: “The clearly orchestrated and virtually every day private assaults demonstrates the pitifully low degree your Government has descended to.”

The Tory former minister told Mr Sunak that Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer “doesn’t have the successful X issue qualities of a Thatcher, a Blair, or a Boris Johnson, and sadly, Prime Minister, neither do you”.

She went on: “Your actions have left some 200 or extra of my MP colleagues to face an electoral tsunami and the lack of their livelihoods, as a result of in your impatience to turn into Prime Minister you set your private ambition above the steadiness of the nation and our financial system.”

Ms Dorries had come under mounting pressure in recent weeks – including from fellow Tory MPs – to act on her vow to resign on June 9.

She said she was delaying her exit while she investigated why she was refused a seat in the Lords.

Her formal resignation paves the way for a by-election to be held in her Mid Bedfordshire constituency within weeks in a fresh headache for Mr Sunak.

Labour and the Liberal Democrats are already campaigning for the seat.

A motion called a “writ” shall be moved when Parliament returns on September 4, giving between 21 and 27 working days for the by-election.