Jones, George; Carlin, Brendan (7 July 2005). "Davis surges ahead in race to be Tory leader". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 9 August 2016. In a debate on Woman's Hour, broadcast on 22 August 2001, Dorries (as Nadine Bargery) had advocated all-women shortlists if the behaviour of Conservative selection committees did not change. [201] In 2009 though, Dorries was highly critical of Cameron's proposal to consider using all-women shortlists, arguing against a move which would create "two classes of MPs". She wrote that "Sometimes I feel sorry for some of the Labour women who were selected via all-women shortlists. Everyone knows who they are. They are constantly derided." [19] Personal life

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On 4 May 2011, Dorries proposed a bill to require that sex education in schools should include content promoting abstinence to girls aged 13–16, which was presented as teaching them "how to say no". [176] While sex education already mentions the option of abstinence, the bill would have required active promotion of abstinence to girls, with no such requirement in the education provided to boys. Owing to Dorries's claims about practices used in teaching about sex, Sarah Ditum in The Guardian accused Dorries of making Sex and Relationship Education (SRE) "sound like a terrifying exercise in depravity". [177]

On 27 October 2010, Dorries partially retracted her 70% fiction claim, posting a blog entry which stated that "It also only takes any individual with a smattering of intelligence to see that everything on the blog is accurate, because it is largely a record of real time events. It was only ever the perception of where I was on any particular day which was disguised." [63]

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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! She has since written the Four Streets series, set in a “tight-knit Irish Catholic community” in 1950s Liverpool where the villain is an abusive Catholic priest; the Lovely Lane series, in which “five very different girls are arriving at the nurses’ home in Lovely Lane, Liverpool, to start their training” in 1950s Liverpool; and the Tarabeg series, which moves between a small village on the west coast of Ireland, and Liverpool. a b c d Treneman, Ann (5 April 2014). "The contradictory Nadine Dorries". The Times magazine. London. Archived from the original on 31 March 2016 . Retrieved 13 January 2016. Shortly after regaining the whip, Dorries floated the idea of joint Conservative–UKIP candidates at the next general election in 2015, with herself as such a candidate. [84] "This is not party policy and it's not going to happen", a Conservative Party spokesman told the Press Association. [85] [86]

By 2022, Dorries had published 16 books and announced a series of six more with publisher Head of Zeus. [145] Eaton, George (3 May 2013). "Could Nadine Dorries defect to UKIP?". New Statesman. Archived from the original on 8 May 2013. Sally Bercow reveals past full of binge-drinking and one-night stands". The Times. London. 3 December 2009. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011 . Retrieved 1 February 2010. Early in November 2012, it was announced that Dorries had agreed to appear on I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!. [67] Other Conservatives objected to her decision and her constituents were "overwhelmingly negative" on local radio. [68] [69] Neither the Conservative chief whip, Sir George Young, nor the chairman of the Mid Bedfordshire Conservative Association were informed of her absence from Parliament. [67] [70] The Conservative Party suspended Dorries from the party whip on 6 November, after her confirmation that she was planning to be absent from Parliament. [71] John Lyon, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, received a complaint about her behaviour. [72] Dorries, Nadine (13 April 2009). "I have become accustomed to the grubby world of British politics. But nothing could prepare me for this". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 3 September 2011.

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. [152] [153] Dorries said she had received death threats from activists and was given police protection. [153] Parliament voted by 187 to 108 to reject the bill. [154] In November 2018, Dorries, who was strongly in favour of Brexit, said of the Withdrawal Agreement negotiated between the UK Government and the EU27: "This is a very sad place to be, but unfortunately, the future of the country and of our relationship with Europe is at stake. This deal gives us no voice, no votes, no MEPs, no commissioner". [93] Minister for Patient Safety, Suicide Prevention and Mental Health (2019–2021) Dorries visiting the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in 2021