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Nadine Dorries takes aim at Emily Maitlis’s ‘cosy “centrist” podcast’

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Another day, another drama – only this time it’s not MPs in the spotlight. Now politician-turned-pundit Nadine Dorries has taken aim at journalist Emily Maitlis and her ‘cosy “centrist” podcast’ The News Agents. In a scathing attack laid out in the fine pages of the Daily Mail, Dorries slams Maitlis’s ‘neurotic’ perspective of politics, her obsession with ‘remaining “relevant”‘ and her, um, ‘orange permatan’. Ouch.

The former cabinet minister described how she had been invited on Maitlis’ podcast only to be asked, charmingly, whether she was ‘unhinged’. ‘I had no particular desire to be on The News Agents,’ Dorries fumed, continuing: ‘I won’t tolerate being spoken to like that by a woman with an orange permatan to rival Donald Trump’s.’ The ex-culture secretary went on to share her reflections from Channel 4’s election night show where Maitlis had seemed shocked that Dorries and ex-SNP MP Mhairi Black could be friendly towards each other despite their views.

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