Nadine Dorries

Nadine Dorries has joined Priti Patel in quitting the Cabinet as Liz Truss prepares to take office. The Culture Secretary – who was Mr Johnson's closest ally in ...

[ who has confirmed she does not intend to serve in Cabinet](https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/priti-patel-depart-home-secretary-rules-out-serving-cabinet-under-liz-truss-1834817?ico=in-line_link) under Liz Truss amid reports she was facing a significant demotion. [photoshopped image shared by Ms Dorries](https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/tory-mps-tell-nadine-dorries-wind-your-neck-in-after-rishi-sunak-knife-post-1771078?ico=in-line_link) showed Mr Sunak wielding a knife behind Mr Johnson’s back, parodying the assassination of Julius Caesar. [privatisation of Channel 4 ](https://inews.co.uk/news/media/channel-4-privatised-government-announce-1556858?ico=in-line_link)and plans to [freeze and ultimately abolish](https://inews.co.uk/news/bbc-licence-fee-axed-options-replace-include-household-levy-netflix-style-subscription-1404272?ico=in-line_link) the BBC license fee as “punishments” for a claimed left-wing bias in the broadcasters’ news reporting. [is likely to be](https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/liz-truss-cost-living-u-turn-direct-payments-rishi-sunak-1788998?ico=in-line_link) drastically rewritten or killed off as Ms Truss takes office. [arguments with Tory MPs deemed to be disloyal to Mr Johnson.](https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/jeremy-hunt-vote-to-oust-boris-johnson-no-confidence-vote-tonight-1671055?ico=in-line_link) [Mail Plus](https://www.mailplus.co.uk/edition/news/politics/220119/final-curtain-for-culture-secretary-who-took-on-the-snobs) reports that she has decided to follow Mr Johnson onto the back benches rather than continue in Cabinet.

Sources close to Ms Dorries – who was a prominent supporter of Liz Truss during the leadership election – said she believed it was the right time to go.

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Nadine Dorries will step down as Culture Secretary ahead of the Cabinet reshuffle today. She is expected to be given a peerage as Boris Johnson leaves ...

Mrs Dorries has faced criticism over the ferocity of her attacks on Rishi Sunak. She attended a comprehensive school before training to be a nurse. contestant has built a successful career as an author. Mrs Dorries has been one of the Prime Minister’s staunchest defenders. Outside Parliament, the former I’m A Celebrity… [Culture Secretary](/news/oliver-dowden/index.html) ahead of the Cabinet reshuffle today.

Sources close to the Conservative MP said she believed it was the right time to go.

And for me it was a coup.” Ms Dorries was thrust into the limelight in 2012 when she was suspended from the Ms Dorries was born in 1957 in Liverpool and grew up on a council estate, which she writes about on her official website, saying: “I am one of the luckiest people alive, to have grown up on a Liverpool council estate from the nineteen fifties to seventies.” It is understood she was given the opportunity to carry on in Sources close to the Conservative MP said she believed it was the right time to go [Liz Truss](/topic/liz-truss) during the leadership election – said she believed it was the right time to go.

Nadine Dorries' future in a Liz Truss premiership could determine the future of the BBC and Channel 4.

More lobbying is likely, while our first source said Channel 4 will be “hoping the national economic crisis will be keeping the government busy and distracted.” Truss is expected to set out an economic plan later this week. The corporation has frequently proved, most recently in 2020, that barely anyone goes to prison for non-payment and decriminalization would cost it millions of pounds in lost revenue, but Truss has said she will review the measure. “Most expect her to be kept in post — Truss will like the signal that sends out.” [of Channel 4’s privatization](https://deadline.com/2022/09/channel-4-privatization-uk-tv-producers-in-last-ditch-attempt-to-reverse-plans-as-country-prepares-for-new-prime-minister-on-monday-1235106226/), signaled that she wants the BBC license fee to be abolished after 2027 and has made multiple inflammatory remarks throughout her yearlong tenure, including her accusation that a Channel 4 reality show she took part in a decade ago used actors instead of ordinary people. Should Dorries fail to keep her current role, there is a decent chance that the former I’m a Celebrity … On the latter, Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (DCMSC) member John Nicolson has written to Parliament calling for an inquiry into allegations she misled Parliament.

Foreign trade secretary Truss was today elected as leader of the ruling Conservative Party, beating rival and former cabinet colleague Rishi Sunak as she ...

UK Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries is to stand down when Liz Truss formally takes over as Prime Minister today.

Get Me Out of Here! Former I’m a Celebrity.. [Nadine Dorries](https://deadline.com/tag/nadine-dorries/) is to stand down when [Liz Truss](https://deadline.com/tag/liz-truss/) formally takes over as Prime Minister today.

Culture secretary Nadine Dorries has resigned from her role in government following Boris Johnson's departure, despite an offer from new Prime Minister Liz ...

They are fueled completely by the desire to provide better for those who need it and I leave the department so inspired." Patel said it had been the "honour of my life" to serve in the role, but said she would step down once Liz Truss took over as Prime Minister. Dorries also paid tribute to civil servants and ministers in the department, who she said had "worked tirelessly" to deliver the government's plans. "We picked it up, we ran with it and I am proud that we have a Bill which will hold tech giants to account and protect the lives of millions of children and young people," she wrote. But she expressed her loyalty for the new PM, and said she was "delighted" at Truss' election, who she believed would be a "worthy successor" in Downing Street. The senior Conservative MP confirmed her return to the backbenches in a letter to Johnson on Tuesday morning, and said she had made the decision to quit after "much reflection".

She goes on to thank Boris Johnson for not judging her due to her accent when she first arrived in Westminster in 2005.

I feel proud that we will now give overlooked areas the boost they deserve in better access to the arts. That is why one of my first objectives was to move arts funding out of London to the regions. When arrived in Westminster in 2005, you were one of the first MPs to greet me. They are fuelled completely by the desire to provide better for those who need it and I leave the department so inspired. Throughout this and much more it has been a privilege to work with such a committed group of talented, hard-working and passionate individuals as the Civil Servants who have supported me. We have ensured greater access to sport for communities and young children by investing in thousands of new sports pitches and facilities up and down the country. As you know, I was born in Breck Road in Liverpool, one of the poorest areas in the country. I have personally assured our soon-to-be Prime Minister that I will be better placed to support her from outside of the Cabinet. I am humbled that your successor has extended her confidence in me by asking me to remain as Secretary of State for DCMS. When I arrived in the department the Online Safety Bill had been kicked into the long grass. Together, Prime Minister, we have built a major economic department, supporting sectors who are responsible for 15% of UK GVA and 14% of all UK jobs. I am delighted that Liz Truss has been elected as Conservative Party Leader.

The culture secretary is tipped for a peerage in the outgoing prime minister's resignation honours list.

Get Me Out Of Here without informing the chief whip first. And for me it was a coup.” However she was readmitted to the party in May 2013. [she told Newsnight](https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nadine-dorries-boris-johnson-best-pm-ina-generation_uk_6311915ae4b07d96a24cde07) Johnson was “the most successful prime minister in a generation”. It is understood she was given the opportunity to carry on in cabinet, but has chosen instead to return to the backbenches. Sources close to the Tory MP – who was a prominent supporter of Truss during the leadership contest – said she believed it was the right time to go.

Yesterday, Ms Patel became the first minister to quit following the election of Ms Truss as the new Conservative Party leader. More from Politics.

While she pledged her support for the new leader, she said it was “vital” that she continued to support the policies she had pursued to tackle illegal immigration – including the deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda. “It has been the honour of my life to serve as Home Secretary for the last three years,” she tweeted. In her resignation letter to Boris Johnson, shared on social media, Ms Patel said it was her “choice” to continue her public service from the backbenches, when Ms Truss formally takes up her post as prime minister on Tuesday. But she said “after much reflection” she had decided to step down, and added: “I have personally assured our soon-to-be prime minister that I will be better-placed to support her from outside of the cabinet.” In her resignation letter to Mr Johnson, she said: “I am humbled that your successor has extended her confidence in me by asking me to remain as Secretary of State for DCMS.” She confirmed she had been asked to stay on as culture secretary by Ms Truss but decided to return to the backbenches.

Dorries, the 10th culture secretary in 12 years, was closely aligned with former prime minister Boris Johnson.

She grew up on a council estate on the deprived Breck Road area of Liverpool, before moving to Runcorn, Cheshire, as a teenager. Dorries made reference to her upbringing in Liverpool in her resignation letter, writing: “I was determined to do all that I could to ensure that those who thought theatres, museums, art galleries and libraries were not places for them, felt welcome. But the bill’s well-intentioned attempts to address these very real risks threatens being the biggest accidental curtailment of free speech in modern history.” She was deemed by critics to be an enthusiastic enabler of the so-called culture wars that have come to dominate political debate in the UK. The bill would “mitigate and manage the risks of harm to individuals,” Dorries said. Fellow Tory MPs questioned the appropriateness of such an image after Sir David Amess, Dorries’s fellow Conservative MP, was stabbed to death in his constituency last October.

The MP for Mid Bedfordshire submitted her resignation letter today ahead of Liz Truss's appointment as prime minister. Dorries said she had been asked to stay ...

- Jeremy Wright, July 2018 – July 2019 The full cabinet is expected to be unveiled by Truss imminently. In her resignation letter, she wrote: “The department I leave behind is truly wonderful.