Nadine Dorries claims secretive Tory cabal called the ‘movement’ brought down Boris Johnson
The Conservatives have been managed for 20 years by a cabal generally known as the “movement”, which brought down Boris Johnson as prime minister, Nadine Dorries has claimed in the newest extract from her new ebook.
The former tradition secretary mentioned the group, which she alleged included levelling up secretary Michael Gove, Mr Johnson’s ex-chief of employees Dominic Cummings and an adviser called Dougie Smith, additionally toppled Iain Duncan Smith as chief and undermined Liz Truss.
In the ebook, The Plot: the Political Assassination, Ms Dorries quotes Mr Johnson describing an “unexpected and fairly unpleasant” telephone name with Mr Smith in 2021.
According to the excerpts, being serialised in the Daily Mail, the former prime minister mentioned: “I remember where I was when the call came; I was upstairs in the flat in the kitchen … he said “I think you should go, you should stand down now and we may let you come back again one day. You are poison, like Nixon. If you don’t go, I’m going to take you down. I’ll finish you off.”
Ms Dorries, the former tradition secretary, dramatically stop as an MP earlier this 12 months accusing Rishi Sunak of blocking a peerage for her in Mr Johnson’s resignation honours listing.
She additionally quotes a supply who mentioned “the movement” had been “furious” Mr Johnson received an 80-seat majority in the 2019 common election.
The supply mentioned: “It was plainly apparent that Friday morning, the day after the election victory in December 2019, they [the movement] had been livid.
“Boris had received too huge. They felt like the confidence that gave him would make it harder to regulate him and, in a means, they had been proper. Boris continually pushed again in opposition to all of them; and that made them each decided and livid.”
Ms Dorries wrote: “In 2019 they needed Boris to save them from all the harm they had been responsible for. The person they had actually lined up to be PM, Rishi, just wasn’t ready, but once Boris was in and had given them a big majority, it was time to get him out. He had served his purpose.”
Ms Dorries additionally wrote that damaging briefings about Mr Johnson’s spouse, Carrie, had been a part of the technique to destabilise the then prime minister as they considered her “as a barrier to their plan for total control”.
Mr Cummings responded to the allegations sarcastically, telling the Mail: “She’s right, there was a giant conspiracy including MI6, the CIA and, most crucially, the KGB special operations department. It’s a tribute to Nadine she has figured this out. The movement wishes her well.”
A supply near Mr Gove instructed the newspaper: “Nadine is a very talented bestselling fiction author.” Friends additionally insisted he ‘performed no half’ in recruiting Mr Cummings to No 10 and rejected the concept he helped to deliver down a sequence of Tory leaders as “a conspiracy theory worthy of Piers Corbyn”.
