Dorries is told she is failing constituents

RISHI Sunak yesterday accused Conservative MP Nadine Dorries of failing her constituents, as he hinted that a general election will not come until late next year

The Prime Minister said the former culture secretary’s voters “are not being properly represented” because she has not spoken in the Commons for more than 12 months. 

Ms Dorries announced in June that she was resigning with “immediate effect”, after she failed to receive a peerage in Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list, but she is yet to stand down formally and has clung on to her role as MP for Mid Bedfordshire, despite being urged by a town council in the area to go.