Sir Bob Neill said Nadine Dorries' actions were motivated by 'personal bitterness and bile' while Tobias Ellwood branded her 'undignified'
departure from Parliament, with one senior Tory saying her failure to quit for weeks after she first vowed to stand down as an MP was “an embarrassment” to the Conservative Party.
He added that her behaviour was “self-centred” and said she had shown her attitude as “if I can’t get what I want, I’m going to throw my toys out of the pram”., saying her claims that he was “abandoning fundamental principles” of conservatism “takes the biscuit of all the political absurdity I’ve heard”.
He told GB News: “I’m afraid what she’s done has been self-serving. It’s been distracting to delay her resignation in this way. “How much you can always legislate for someone who behaves in a random, to put it mildly, fashion isn’t easy,” Sir Bob said.
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