Her attempts to justify the move received public and industry backlash and at times ridicule, in part due to comments stating that a 2010 reality TV show she took part in had involved paid actors, despite denials from the production company, [107] and having previously incorrectly claimed that the channel was publicly-funded when it is funded by advertising.

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You know, the Lawyers' Christian Fellowship, the Medical Christian Fellowship on this particular issue are absolutely vital because they give us the information. Nadine Dorries’ book will not now be released in time for the Conservative party’s autumn conference. In the Commons vote during October 2013 she was the first of the six candidates to be eliminated, with 13 votes. Matter referred on 21 April 2022: Co-ordinated campaign of interference in the work of the Privileges Committee".The act, a simple, three-line clause piece of legislation, made it illegal to seek, accept or obtain honours in exchange for money or another gift. She subsequently told the Biggleswade Advertiser that the report was never printed and a credit note issued with refund on 13 September 2008. had led to her refusing to disclose the information to Kathryn Hudson, the parliamentary commissioner for standards. On 13 January 2011, it was reported by the Daily Mirror that police were investigating Dorries concerning her expenses.

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The Liberal Democrats’ deputy leader, Daisy Cooper, said Dorries’s actions were a “gross insult to the people of Mid Bedfordshire”. The ensuing by-election in Mid Bedfordshire, held on 19 October, was won by Alistair Strathern of the Labour Party, with the largest Conservative majority overturned by Labour in a by-election since 1945.She said of her tactics on this issue in 2007: "If I were to argue that all abortions should be banned, the ethical discussions would go round in circles . On 21 October 2010, the MP's standards watchdog criticised Dorries for maintaining a blog which would "mislead constituents" as to how much actual time she was spending in her constituency. The programme examined the growing influence of Christian evangelical movements in the UK and highlighted the Lawyers' Christian Fellowship's involvement in lobbying the British Government on issues such as abortion, gay rights and the enforcing of laws relating to blasphemy. Tory women-only shortlists", Archived 28 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine Woman's Hour, 22 August 2000. In January 2010, it was reported that Dorries was still being investigated by John Lyon, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, regarding her claim for second home expenses.

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In February 2022, amidst a controversy over a joke about Romani genocide, made by Jimmy Carr on a Netflix special, Dorries said that the government would bring in legislation to "hold to account" streaming companies for offensive content. Instead, I found a fault line within the Conservative Party stretching back decades, and a history of deception fuelled by the darkest political arts.Three weeks before the 2005 general election I, a council estate Scouser, was selected as the Conservative candidate to represent a southern rural constituency. He might have been about to have sex for the first time in almost two years, he might have been angry and have lost all reason, but he wasn’t going to spill the Guinness. Despite being invited to continue in the position, she resigned as Culture Secretary ahead of the formation of the Truss ministry, after Liz Truss took over from Johnson on 6 September 2022. Cabinet Secretary Simon Case confirmed that he had flagged communications between Ms Dorries and senior civil servants, sent after the Johnson loyalist was not named in the former prime minister’s resignation honours list, to the Commons Speaker and the Conservative chief whip. On 27 October 2010, Dorries partially retracted her 70% fiction claim, posting a blog entry which stated that "It also only takes any individual with a smattering of intelligence to see that everything on the blog is accurate, because it is largely a record of real time events.