Mistrusted by some in the arts, the new culture secretary is said by a colleague to be 'up for the fight'.
In 1984, she married financial adviser Paul Dorries. She came late to active politics, and until 1997, had considered joining Labour. However, she disliked Tony Blair's attitude to the Right to Buy scheme. Set up by Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, it allowed council tenants to buy their flat or house.
In 2005, Dorries was elected MP for Mid Bedfordshire, a seat she has retained since, enjoying a majority of more than 24,000 at the last general election. But it is her exploits outside Westminster which have gained her exposure far beyond that of most backbenchers.Nadine Dorries loses control during an event to mark Red Tractor Week at Covent Garden, London 2007
The thought of her appearing 12,000 miles away on peak-time TV while other MPs were at work was almost as unappetising to senior Conservatives, whoIn 2013, Dorries signed a contract to write the Four Streets series of novels based on her experience of growing up in Liverpool. Savaged by the critics, they went on to become best-sellers, as did the Lovely Lane series, about a group of young nurses in the city.
But Dorries expressed her admiration for Mr Cameron's fellow Old Etonian Boris Johnson and they became firm allies. She was a strong supporter of Leave in the Brexit referendum and, when Johnson entered Downing Street in 2019, he made her a health minister.diagnosed with Covid, There was surprise and considerable scorn in the media and among politicians and celebrities when Johnson made Dorries culture secretary.
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