Nadine Dorries takes aim at her Tory foes (again)

It’s just a few weeks left until Nadine Dorries’ successor is chosen by the good people of Mid-Bedfordshire. But the MP-turned-columnist shows no sign of going quietly, using her perch in the Mail to direct her ire at her onetime Tory colleagues. Today’s offering was another classic example. Headlined ‘I’ve seen how easy it is for hostile states to create spies in our midst’, it ended with a swipe at Alicia Kearns, the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee – one of those linked to the alleged Chinese spy.

According to Dories, Kearns is ‘better-known as the ring leader of the so-called “Pork Pie Plotters” – named after her Melton Mowbray constituency – who, in 2022, sought to trigger the downfall of then Prime Minister Boris Johnson.’ Her election as FAC chair last October ‘came as a surprise to many of us’, says Dorries, who adds:

Others, who were far more experienced and alert to the dangers from hostile powers — including the wise and knowledgeable Iain Duncan Smith — had stood unsuccessfully against her.