Rishi Sunak is jetting off on holiday to California this afternoon, but it seems the Prime Minister couldn’t resist a dig at Tory backbencher Nadine Dorries before he departs. Dorries, a close ally of Boris Johnson, has refused to quit parliament, despite saying in June that she would stand down as the MP for Mid Bedfordshire ‘with immediate effect’.
When LBC host Nick Ferrari asked Sunak for his ‘view of Nadine’, the PM responded: ‘I think people deserve to have an MP that represents them wherever they are…just making sure that your MP is engaging with you, representing you, whether that’s speaking in parliament or being present in their constituencies.’
He added: ‘that’s a job of an MP and all MPs should be held to that standard.’
Dorries has not spoken in parliament since July last year
Ferrari then asked directly whether Dorries was ‘failing’, to which Sunak said that ‘at the moment people (in her seat) aren’t being properly represented’.
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