Rishi Sunak lied when he mentioned he often chats with Boris Johnson, Nadine Dorries has claimed.
The former Culture Secretary trashed Mr Sunak’s declare that he and his disgraced former boss discuss “on occasion”. The PM claimed in an interview that he could be keen to have Mr Johnson again in his cupboard.
But Ms Dorries – a superfan of the previous Prime Minister – accused Mr Sunak of being “overtly disrespectful”. She additionally claimed the present management had “systematically destroyed” Mr Johnson’s majority.
The former MP, who give up in a strop final 12 months, posted on Twitter : “This is a lie. They never speak. Rishi and the team around him are overtly disrespectful towards the former PM who won the 80 seat majority they have systematically destroyed.”
Her assault got here after Mr Sunak instructed ITV’s Tonight programme: “I’m proud of the work that we did together. And we worked well together for a long time. In the end there are, you know, well-documented differences.”
When pushed on whether he’d have Mr Johnson back in his top team, he said: “Well, I by no means speak about these personnel issues, however look, I, you understand, I converse to him once in a while.”
Asked when he last spoke to him, he said: “I can not bear in mind, most likely late final 12 months.” The PM used the interview to insist Tory plots against him are “miniscule” as he admitted “voters don’t vote for divided parties”. “Actually I feel that the overwhelming majority of our celebration is united,” he mentioned.
Ms Dorries lastly give up as an MP in August final 12 months, 81 days after she introduced her resignation from the Commons with “quick impact”. The ex-Culture Secretary said she had clung on as she wanted to investigate why she had not been given a seat in the House of Lords. Labour snatched the Mid Bedfordshire seat in a by-election in October, overturning the Tories’ 24,664 majority.
In November, Ms Dorries published a book titled “The Plot: The Political Assassination Of Boris Johnson”. In it she claimed there is a Tory fixer in No10 who chopped a former girlfriend’s pet rabbit into four pieces and nailed it to her family’s front door. She said the shadowy figure known as “Dr No” had also tried to set fire to a house while children were sleeping inside. The publication of the book had been delayed for several weeks because of legal issues.