Kemi Badenoch has hit out at Nadine Dorries after her book ‘The Plot’ appeared to accuse the Secretary of State for Business and Trade of having a part to play in ousting Boris Johnson.
Ms Dorries, former Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, claims Michael Gove, Dominic Cummings and Dougie Smith were also involved in the “faction” that ultimately led to Johnson resigning as Tory leader.
The former Prime Minister was forced to resign after the Partygate scandal following the Coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
In a social media post, featuring a clip from her appearance on BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Ms Dorries said: “Thanks to Kemi Badenoch for plugging THE PLOT – which lays out her role in the downfall of Boris Johnson and predicts her manoeuvring at the direction of her puppet masters, Dougie Smith, Gove, Cummings et al to get her into No10.”
Responding to the claims made in the book, Badenoch hit back at Dorries on GB News and called the claims “insulting”.
She added there were “a lot of lies” in the book, in response to her relationships made by Ms Dorries.
She said: “There are several things that I need to say. One, almost everything in Nadine’s book, for me, almost everything in the Nadine Dorries book is nonsense…
“What they’re doing is really insulting me and my intelligence that I couldn’t possibly be making decisions without these people telling me what to do.”
She added: “One of my constituents bought the book and told me I know this isn’t true because I was there at your selection.
“What is described there is nonsense, that you were the chosen one, there was somebody from Number 10 we all knew, was the person we were expected to pick. So there are a lot of lies there.
“Do I know Michael Gove? Yes, he was my Secretary of State. We worked very well together.
“Do you know why they say it? Because they look at me and they look at what I say and they think she couldn’t possibly have thought of that herself. ‘Some man from somewhere must have put it in her brain’, is what they’re really saying.”
