Former Conservative minister Nadine Dorries has introduced she is resigning, after months of criticism over her absence from the House of Commons.
In her resignation letter, the Tory MP accused Rishi Sunak of “demeaning his office by opening the gates to whip up a public frenzy” in opposition to her.
The letter to the prime minister, revealed in The Mail on Sunday, mentioned: “It has been the greatest honour and privilege of my life to have served the good people of Mid Bedfordshire as their MP for 18 years and I count myself blessed to have worked in Westminster for almost a quarter of a century.
“Despite what some within the media and also you your self have implied, my workforce of caseworkers and I’ve continued to work for my constituents faithfully and diligently to today.”
The letter went on to say Mr Sunak had abandoned “the elemental rules of Conservatism” and “historical past is not going to decide you kindly”.
Ms Dorries, a key ally of Boris Johnson, mentioned she was resigning with “immediate effect” on 9 June after she didn’t get a peerage in Mr Johnson’s resignation honours listing.
But having not formally vacated her seat, a by-election has not been in a position to happen.
Ms Dorries mentioned she was delaying her exit to analyze why she was refused a seat within the House of Lords.
In the letter she mentioned her “investigations focused on the political assassination of Boris Johnson” however as they continued a “dark story emerged which grew ever more disturbing with each person I spoke to”.
She claimed that she felt “remaining as a backbencher was incompatible with publishing a book which exposes how the democratic process at the heart of our party has been corrupted”. As such she wished to maintain her parliamentary privilege till at present.
Meanwhile each Flitwick Town and Shefford Town Council in her Bedfordshire constituency formally referred to as for her to resign.
The city clerk for Flitwick Town Council mentioned that her “focus appears to have been firmly on your television show, upcoming book and political manoeuvres to embarrass the government for not appointing you to the House of Lords” as a substitute of “representing your constituents”.
In a Mail on Sunday video she described accusations of her abandoning her constituents as “nonsense”.
Following the letter, a Conservative Party spokesman mentioned the celebration has already “selected a candidate and are ready for the by-election campaign”.
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Ms Dorries additionally accused Mr Sunak of main assaults on her leading to “the police having to visit my home and contact me on a number of occasions due to threats to my person”.
“The clearly orchestrated and almost daily personal attacks demonstrates the pitifully low level your government has descended to,” she wrote.
Attacking the prime minster’s report, she added: “Since you took office a year ago, the country is run by a zombie parliament where nothing meaningful has happened.
“You haven’t any mandate from the individuals and the federal government is adrift. You have squandered the goodwill of the nation, for what?
“Your actions have left some 200 or more of my MP colleagues to face an electoral tsunami and the loss of their livelihoods, because in your impatience to become prime minister you put your personal ambition above the stability of the country and our economy.
“Bewildered, we glance in useless for the grand political imaginative and prescient for the individuals of this nice nation to carry on to, that might make all this disruption and subsequent inertia worthwhile, and we discover completely nothing.”
Labour and the Lib Dems are hopeful of overturning Ms Dorries’ 24,000 majority in Mid Bedfordshire, which has been held by the Conservatives since 1931.
Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey said in a statement: “The individuals of Mid Bedfordshire deserve higher than this circus act that has adopted the Conservatives these previous few months.” Downing Street has not commented.
Speaking to Sky News, Labour’s shadow Northern Ireland secretary Peter Kyle said the party is “relieved for residents throughout Mid Bedfordshire”.
“This is nice information for them. They’ve wished to have this by-election to allow them to transfer ahead however they have been held again by this civil battle that’s raging on the coronary heart of the Conservative Party,” he said.
“It would not shock me that the letter she’s written is excoriating. It would not shock me as a result of Rishi Sunak has been having a go at her not too long ago.
“But while the Conservatives are rowing with each other, we in the Labour Party have our candidate Alistair Strathern, whose been working his socks off since June, in place, so we can prepare a hard-working alternative.”
Source: information.sky.com”