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Hello and welcome to Coffee House shots. I'm James Heel and I'm joined today by

Fraser Nelson and Kate Andrews. Now first of all the big story of the weekend Fraser

was Nadine Dorries' resignation, she wrote a 1800-word letter. You were an article about this

over the weekend. Tell us what you think of her resignation. Well of course she resigned in

inverted comments several months ago. She wanted to wait until Saturday to give a story for the

Sundays. I also note she's got a new book coming out to go inside of the by-election. It seems

to be some strange conspiracy theory that Boris Johnson was assassinated in the title of her book.

Now thing is Nadine Dorries is one of these people who makes parliaments a more colorful place.

I shared some of her criticisms about Rishi Tuneck. It's the Tory party has got an embarrassing

lack of vision right now. It's being led by somebody who lost a leadership contest and who

was falsely trying to claim credit for falling inflation. I agree with her on all of those things

but there are three areas where fundamentally does agree with her. One is to claim that a cabal of

Tuneckites or a cabal of anybody, somehow a defernistrated Boris Johnson. We can all remember the

circumstances in which his government exploded and we did so because he became the first prime minister

in British history who couldn't find enough people to serve in his government. It was a mass

protest by the parliamentary party, all of whom just couldn't take any of a disorder anymore.

So if Nadine Dorries wants to go after people, he should really go after the dozens and dozens

of Tory MPs who either resigned or refused to serve. That's why he quit. Secondly, the idea of

calling a bi-election I think is just a monstrous act of vanity. I'm a bit old-fashioned here.

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