A Wicked Woman (The Bellfont Legacy)

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In addition, Dorries had falsely claimed that payment for eight pieces of work in the media did not need to be declared as they were made to Averbrook, her company, rather than to herself directly. Tory women-only shortlists", Archived 28 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine Woman's Hour, 22 August 2000. On 31 October 2006, Dorries introduced a private member's bill in the House of Commons, which would have reduced the time limit for abortion in Great Britain from 24 to 21 weeks; introduced a ten-day 'cooling-off' period for women wishing to have an abortion, during which time the woman would be required to undergo counselling; and accelerate access to abortion at the end of the cooling-off period.

Sarah Ditum in the New Statesman complained that some of the sentences "read like clippings from Wikipedia" [143] while Christopher Howse, writing for The Telegraph, described The Four Streets as "the worst novel I've read in 10 years".

On 13 January 2011, it was reported by the Daily Mirror that police were investigating Dorries concerning her expenses. Despite initially intending to release in September 2023, just before the Conservative party conference, the release was pushed back to November due to legal checks needing to be undertaken. Men knock back the Guinness (28 mentions in The Four Streets, Dorries’ first book), while they dream of “green fields the colour of emeralds, or a raven-haired girl, with eyes that shone like diamonds”, and kick each other’s heads in. Leave-voting MP Nadine Dorries slams May's Brexit deal because UK won't have seats in European parliament". On 24 August, Dorries responded to the growing criticism, releasing a statement stating that she and her caseworkers were "working daily with constituents".

The series began on 11 November 2012, but on 21 November, Dorries became the first contestant to be voted off the show. The Conservative Party suspended Dorries from the party whip on 6 November, after her confirmation that she was planning to be absent from Parliament. George Osborne reportedly objected to her regaining the parliamentary whip, [77] [78] while commentators speculated that, should she not be readmitted, Dorries might join UKIP, [79] [80] [81] which had made gains from the Conservatives in the previous week's local elections. had led to her refusing to disclose the information to Kathryn Hudson, the parliamentary commissioner for standards.She grew up on a council estate and entered nursing in 1975 as a trainee at Warrington General Hospital.

Dorries was signed up as an author in 2013 in a six-figure deal, shortly before she was forced to apologise to MPs for failing to declare her fee for appearing on ITV’s I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here! Dorries married mining engineer Paul Dorries in 1984 with whom she had three daughters before separating in 2007 and subsequently divorcing. In November 2020, Dorries attracted media criticism after rejecting an offer of cross-party talks to discuss a mental health support package for frontline NHS and care staff during the COVID-19 pandemic. From the gorgeous passionate dead Bernadette in The Four Streets to Victoria from The Angels of Lovely Lane, whose “naturally ash-blonde hair, worn in a swept-up style, gave definition to her high cheekbones and large blue eyes”, Dorries’ women are generally beautiful if they’re good and brave and rise up against adversity, and less so if they’re not.

She also argued that there was no provision for adultery, or faithlessness, as it might apply to gay couples because the term applies to heterosexual couples only.

Dorries had not spoken in the House of Commons since June 2022, or worked on a select committee, and was criticised by both Tory and opposition MPs for allegedly abandoning her constituents.Dorries proposed amendments to the Health and Social Care Bill 2011 which would have blocked abortion services such as BPAS and Marie Stopes International from providing counselling services. Andrea Williams (now director of Christian Concern and Christian Legal Centre) was a team member of the campaign.