We meet in Liverpool where her novels 15 of them written in seven years mostly sagas about growing up in poverty-stricken communities in the 1950s and 60s, are set. Her qualifications for hosting a talk show are, one imagines, that she is cheap, available, loud, and has seen an autocue before. A Cameron Cutie, as the former prime ministers cohort of female MPs was patronisingly known, Nadine says she felt inferior. She was enraged by Tory Jeremy Hunt - now the Chancellor - who said he would oppose Mr Johnson in a confidence vote last summer. She told Razzall the BBC was "the best of British", but how it competes with streaming giants and how it is funded after 2027 will be "discussions for the future". Who is they? Does she mean the posh boys whom she famously once said didnt know the price of milk? I'm afraid that the lack of cohesion, the infighting and occasionally the sheer stupidity from those who think we could remove a sitting prime minister, who secured a higher percentage of the vote share than Tony Blair did in 1997, just three short years ago, she said. The 65-year-old is a best-selling novelist - and hit the headlines as one of the first MPs to get Covid in 2020. "This bill is coming. I know youre not going to like me saying this, but youre not actually big on small talk or parties youre just not a party animal., Getting to her question, Dorries added: Do you think it was wrong of you to focus all your attention on making sure we made the vaccine, we delivered the vaccine, we were one of the first countries to lift restrictions or do you think you should have been prowling the corridors of 10 Downing Street, in that warren of offices, checking up on 250 employees and asking them what they were doing on Friday nights when you were at Chequers?, Johnson replied: Ill just repeat what Ive said before, and I hope its obvious to everybody, that anybody who thinks I was knowingly going to parties that were breaking lockdown rules in No 10, or then knowingly covering up parties that were illicit that other people were going to, thats all strictly for the birds.. Its our biggest export. TalkTV described her upcoming show as "an irreverent look at the week's news and a lively mix of topical chat with guests from the world of politics, culture and sport". She criticised online campaigners for frightening young people "who actually do want to engage" in serious debate. Deputy prime minister, Dominic Raab, Health Secretary Sajid Javid, and Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries look on as Boris Johnson's delivers his leader's keynote speech during the Conservative Party conference at Manchester Central Convention Complex on October 6, 2021 in Manchester, England. In a 41-second video shot in her office, the Tory MP delivered a stilted rap about "a framework to protect internet users / From scams, illegal content and anonymous abusers". Dorries has no broadcasting experience, other than trying to shut down Channel 4 when she was Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. But I think I know. She has to pass her brothers grave every time she comes home (he died in a car accident when he was 27) but lets not talk about that. ", Ms Dorries complained about nepotism at the BBC in a Tory conference event in 2021, saying it needed to "be more accessible to people from all backgrounds, not just people whose mum and dad worked there.. When I was a child, a girl came to stay with us from one of those homes. Nadine Dorries Age. In her first TV interview since taking the job, she said she does not plan "to charge out on a culture war battle". Despite her absence, Mrs Dorries is still entitled to her MP salary of 84,000. I'm a vet, and here are five dog breeds most prone to cancer - including Golden Retrievers and Rottweilers. A Tory source said: Nadines constituents in Mid Bedfordshire might wonder if she cares more about her new TV show and stumping for past prime ministers than she does representing their views in Parliament. This is a farce. She is single now. Get UK politics insight with our free daily email briefing straight to your inbox. I left school at 16 with six GCSEs - and became a self-made millionaire. Part of HuffPost Politics. I'm afraid it's this behaviour that I now just have to remove myself from. Ill let you into a secret. Ms Dorries said Mr Hunt had claimed the Government would collapse after Brexit, adding: "Youve been wrong about almost everything, you are wrong again now.". She moved to Liverpool at 16 and stayed there, but her heart was back in Ireland. He flubbed the awesome opportunity to remake the country after his 2019 landslide. 2023 BBC. By this stage she had sold her childcare company to Bupa, so I did not need to earn more money. A top cabinet minister. Pronouns, gender, statues, all that stuff the old Nadine would tweet about. She once had a typically Nadine-style rant about nepotism, and was slapped down when it was pointed out that both her daughters had worked for her. The chamber is a professional workplace and there is a creche. The US and Germany are listening to you, cooed Dorries. Im not one of those people who says they wanted to be in politics since they could read, because thats not normal.. The comments below have been moderated in advance. Become a CCAoA advocate! Her first guest on her programme was Mr Johnson, who she has described as one of the worlds greatest leaders and a political rock star. During the interivew, the Johnson loyalist made Moment British man is arrested at Colombian airport as he tries to fly to London with 23 kilos of cocaine Do YOU know your Adam and Eve from your Ruby Murray? I was highlighting that those politicians are detached from the everyday lives of ordinary people, and theyre treating the Conservative party as their plaything. Shes here to talk about Hide Her Name, the second book of a trilogy set in sixties Liverpool. Ms Dorries also revealed she had 20 to 30 pairs of heels all by Stuart Weitzman for Russell and Bromley. But if you ask me have I experienced mansplaining, being talked down to because I am a woman, yes and yes.. Instead, she would quite like to be called Hoggie, as she has rescue hedgehogs in her garden, and cant wait until her granddaughter is old enough to feed them. director general Tim Davie's recent 10-point plan, Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, AOC under investigation for Met Gala dress, Canadian grandma helps police snag phone scammer, The children left behind in Cuba's exodus, Mother who killed her five children euthanised. Nadine Dorries began her new prime time show on Talk TV last night with a promise of transparency. Both daughters were paid from public funds at a cost to the taxpayer of up to 80,000, the Mirror previously revealed. 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Id packed them in bin bags and given them to Afghan women returning to the workplace., She took the call summoning her to Downing Street while sitting in the hairdressers. Ms Dorries has been one of Boris Johnson's most vocal and staunch allies, sticking by the shamed PM even as his Government crumbled. One of 12, she was brought up in a tiny stone cottage in County Mayo. Passionate about social justice and womens issues, she tried, unsuccessfully, to reduce the time for legal abortion in England. Oh gosh, I've just said it out loud, there's no going back now.". Read about our approach to external linking. We were actually reunited, she confides. But the difference is she speaks with authenticity as a result of her personal experiences. The first instalment of the MP's weekly hour-long programme will feature an exclusive interview with Boris Johnson. That was in February 2019 and he died in the June. But the Tory MP insisted: "I dont fancy your brother not a bit.". Frost-Nixon it was not, as the host disregarded many of the conventions of a serious political interview. She was still culture secretary at the time. Boris Johnson is a decaying political product. In a similar vein, we chat about how can she be the one to clean up Twitter when she could be accused of having been less than kind on the platform previously. 2023 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved. She supported tax changes brought in as part of the Autumn Statement on November 22 and then took part in votes on the Levelling Up Bill the next day. Im fine.. But I regard abortion after six months as murder, she says. Nadine Dorries has been told to hand back her 84,000 MP salary as it emerged she has not spoken in the Commons for almost eight months. She and their daughters nursed him at the end. In one Twitter outburst, she mocked Mr Sunak's expensive taste in clothes by posting an article about the millionaire ex-Chancellor wearing a 3,500 suit before a vote and donning 490 Prada loafers on a visit to a building site. Paedophiles worked in hospitals; they took positions in the church; they were teachers and they drove school buses. Snobbery and misogyny, she concludes. LBC presenter James O'Brien, who has previously exchanged insults with Dorries in the press and on Twitter, said on Friday that she "is part of the problem of online abuse". "As someone who's never been afraid to speak their mind, I'm delighted to be joining the team at TalkTV for Friday Night with Nadine, where I'll be putting my 23-year political career and experiences at the despatch box to good use," she said. Ms Dorries took to TikTok last year for a wince-inducing clip to explain the Government's online safety legislation. But she is also known for her punchy views, gaffes and her adoration for shamed ex-PM Mr Johnson. Today he shills crypto in Singapore, and fields cake-soft questions from his political outriders. A weekly round-up of some of the best articles featured in the most recent issue of the New Statesman, sent each Saturday. How many toes on the front does a cow have? My office was just a couple of doors from his and he would have us in for a cup of tea, talk about how to make speeches from the back benches. I was 64! And its inspired by the authors childhood, growing up on a council estate. Speaking of Partygate, Dorries said she "knew him" and that he's the "last person" to willingly go to a party. Children drinking PINTS and the King riding in a 14-wheel golden HGV - this is Kate and Prince William 'are keen' for Prince George to have official role in King Charles' coronation - but Royally hard work! A weekly newsletter helping you fit together the pieces of the global economic slowdown. It was in the 1990s and I heard someone, I think it must have been John Major, saying something pompous, and Paul said, Well do something about it.. "That they could do that and the public would let us get away with it. Instead, Nadine Dorries is too busy stuffing her pockets in TV studios. "People are afraid because of the amplification in the echo chambers of social media. The interview also revealed that Johnson almost blacks out laughing at the Peter Sellers Pink Panther films, and that hes attempting to master drawing cows.