Nadine Dorries tells Susanna Reid PM must call General Election amid Tory anger
Nadine Dorries has said Rishi Sunak must call a General Election now - saying he can't continue as he is.
The former Culture Secretary, who belatedly quit as an MP after being passed over for a peerage, said Britain should go to the polls to remove a "powerful" group at the heart of Government. She told Good Morning Britain : "They need to be removed from Downing Street and we need a General Election.
" Rishi Sunak can't continue on the basis that he was elected and the fact that he just keeps changing the face of the Conservative Party. That's not what people voted for in the General Election (in 2019)."
It comes after she claimed David Cameron's return to Government paved the way for George Osborne to come back as Tory leader. As yesterday's drama unfolded Ms Dorries posted on Twitter: "This now opens the door for the rerun of Osborne. He will want a safe seat, if such a thing exists and then into leader of the opposition slot. You heard it here first. Nothing happens by accident for these guys. It is all long planned."
Nadine Dorries has said Rishi Sunak needs to call a General ElectionShe has repeatedly claimed a group of men with "money and influence and connections" were behind Boris Johnson's downfall - and alleged that Liz Truss would have suffered a similar fate if she lasted longer.
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She told GMB: "There are a small number of men who are very powerful. They removed Iain Duncan Smith, they were involved in the removal of David Cameron, they removed Theresa May and they removed Liz Truss.
"If she hadn't gone for the reasons she did, she would not have lasted much longer..."
It comes after Ms Dorries told LBC that Tory MPs are "agog" at the return of Mr Cameron. She said: ‘It's utterly bizarre, because I can tell you what's happening within the Conservative Party right now. It is agog and it is angry.
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"Lots of those MPs in those red wall seats, to the vast majority of them David Cameron means nothing to them. They weren't even interested in politics when he was Prime Minister, but they have won seats back from Labour that has been Labour for generations.
"The whole image of somebody from a privileged background just being popped into the Lords and popped into a Secretary of State's job when we have got a Cabinet full of people and a parliamentary party full of people, who've been working very hard for years, who just think, hang on, are we not good enough?"
And she took a swipe at the new Foreign Secretary, who quit as PM in 2016 after the Brexit referendum. Ms Dorries said: "He went to the EU to get some concessions to try and prevent a referendum, he failed. The referendum happened [and] it was incredibly divisive.
"He wrongly, as a Prime Minister, nailed the government's colours to the mast of remain. Remain lost and then he took his bat and ball home and resigned, which he should never have done. And then David Cameron, who had once predicted that the next big scandal would be a lobbying scandal, was the architect of the next lobbying scandal with all the Greensill texts and issues that he had.
"I think what this is about really is rehabilitating David Cameron. It is rehabilitating his image, so that he could get into the Lords.’
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