Nadine Dorries and the Plot Against Britain
Part Two: the martyrdom of Saints Boris and Iain
The story so far:
Fearless Liverpudlian Nadine Dorries has turned down a job she hasn’t been offered in Liz Truss’s new cabinet in order to think about uncovering the truth about how Boris Johnson was recently toppled. She begins her Quest by meeting herself in a pub in Westminster, where she tells herself that there has been a deep plot going back years to control the Conservative party. The advice she gets from herself is to go and see former leader Iain Duncan Smith, because it is her duty to expose a serial subversion of democracy. She leaves herself sitting there, drinking warm champagne, pondering what to do. Finally she gets up and texts herself that yes indeed, she will be the hound of truth.
It’s September 2022, the old Queen is ailing but the hunt is on.
Part Two: Martyrdom and Mayfair
It's a bright sunny morning as I leave my flat and head out across the river to meet with Boris. My new trainers squeaked annoyingly, backpack slung across my shoulders. I was embarking upon a new phase in my life.
The only problem was that her tenses is mixed.
Boris was his usual enthusiastic, ebullient self and demonstrated not even a hint of bitterness.
Phew. Tenses sorted. Let’s get back on the trail.
And in this meeting Nadine explores with her rancour-free former boss the question of why he brought Dominic Cummings and Michael Gove into government. The implication is that if there was a long-term plot to get rid of serial Tory leaders and supplant them with someone else for some as yet undiscovered purpose, then Gove and Cummings were part of it. And in any case, plot or no plot they were transparently a bad lot. So why did you do it, Boris, why? Boris shakes his noble head and replies:
“I kept looking at all of these people with the eyes of faith, hoping believing they were working as part of the team and become good, and thinking they must put the good of the country first, but actually they weren’t thinking like that at all…. We had to, at all costs, deliver on the referendum result because that was absolutely the right thing to do.”
Nadine leaves him, a man betrayed by his own goodness, and makes for another meeting with another secret woman, this time in an exclusive club in Mayfair which it costs £2000 a year to be a member of and where Arron Banks, the Brexit millionaire once met me for dinner.