Nadine Dorries is vindicating Sunak’s refusal to ennoble her

The Spectator says After waiting for months, Nadine Dorries has today served her resignation – as several MPs have done recently. But, enraged by Rishi Sunak’s refusal to put her in the House of Lords, she is also triggering a by-election which the Tories are highly likely to lose. In her letter, released in time for the Sunday newspapers, she makes some fair criticisms of Sunak. But the crux of it borders on delusional: a claim that Boris Johnson was forced out of office, even “assassinated“, by a small cabal of Sunak allies.

I was never wild about the idea of defenestrating Johnson. Sunak’s assessment that the Tory poll lead would soon recover was (to put it mildly) optimistic. But it wasn’t Sunak that brought Boris down. Sajid Javid was the first to resign that day, and so many ministers followed that Johnson was simply unable to find enough Tories willing to serve in his government. We ended up with an Education Secretary for two days, and a Chancellor who announced his resignation the day after he was appointed: it was a full-bore meltdown. A rare example of a PM literally unable to govern because his party was in collective rebellion. The idea of a Sunakite cabal orchestrating it all is imaginary: Dorries needs to blame every one of her colleagues who refused to serve in Johnson’s government. And they did so because they could not take any more of the sheer disorder.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/nadine-dorries-cant-blame-sunak-for-bringing-down-boris/