EXCLUSIVE: Nadine Dorries on the 'disgusting' Tory Party chair
The News Agents
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🗓️ 6 June 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Overnight, Richard Holden, The Tory Party chair parachuted himself into the safe seat of Basildon & Billericay. Which is 280 miles away from his former seat - North West Durham.
Today, his former colleague and former Tory cabinet minister tells us why he's 'disgusting', and what she thinks will happen to Rishi's Tory party now. Does she accept that the rot set in with the lies, hypocrisy and calumny of Boris Johnson?
You'll find out.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.0 | This is a global player original podcast. This is Richard Holden, the Conservative Party chairman, |
| 0:16.2 | standing up for, fighting for, loving, adoring his constituency of Northwest Durham. |
| 0:22.8 | No, I am bloody loyal to the North East, Tom. I care about this constituency. I fought for them |
| 0:26.9 | every day since 2019. They've never had a constituency MP who works harder. I'm up there still... |
| 0:32.1 | He loves Northwest Durham so much. He is so loyal to his constituents of Northwest Durham that yesterday at 4pm he announced |
| 0:40.6 | himself as the sole candidate for, da-da-da-drum-roll, Basildon and Billerickey, about five |
| 0:49.8 | hours drive away from the people he's been representing since 2019. Yeah, 270-mile trip down to |
| 0:57.0 | the heartland of Essex and a safe seat where the Conservative Party chairman would have a bit of |
| 1:03.0 | influence over who was going to be selected. It's a kind of rum affair. And it has raised |
| 1:09.1 | eyebrows amongst his parliamentary colleagues and former |
| 1:12.8 | parliamentary colleagues, first out of the traps with her remarks last night, Nadine Doris, |
| 1:18.9 | and she's spoken to us today at length. Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:26.7 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:28.3 | It's John. |
| 1:30.3 | It's Emily. |
| 1:31.3 | And this isn't the first time we've tried to get Nadine Dorey's onto the podcast. I think I might have screwed it up once with a tweet that she didn't take well to. |
| 1:39.3 | You slagged off her book. |
| 1:41.3 | No, I didn't slagged on somebody else. |
| 1:42.3 | It was because she'd got a kind of thumbs |
| 1:45.6 | up from David Ike and I said, oh, that's great. And I think she thought I was being rude about her, |
| 1:50.7 | whereas maybe I was being rude about David Ike. Anyway, water under the bridge. We're friends again. |
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