Nadine Dorries' show blasted with Ofcom complaints after Boris The ex-PM is currently being investigated by the cross-party Privileges Committee to determine whether he misled the Commons in his remarks on Partygate. This is a government that is now set up to deliver its Prime Ministers priorities: and one of those priorities is repeated and sustained intervention in the UKs culture wars. It has been reported the pair dated for a couple of years but any relationship that might have existed came to an end in 2017. First country to produce the vaccine, to administer the vaccine. How innovation and green tech will transform Africa, How to make your business indispensable in the green economy, How smart meters can boost Britains energy resilience, Liz Truss named Foreign Secretary as Boris Johnson demotes Raab, Diary: My time as the New Statesman's political editor is over, and Im shaking up a seven-year routine. Im proud of all the work that those people did," he said. On partygate, which saw Johnson fined for breaking his own lockdown rules, Dorries was even more strident in her backing of her former boss. Pity the poor producer who had to write chyrons like BORIS: I NEARLY BLACK OUT LAUGHING AT PINK PANTHER. Nadine Dorries "At the moment I've got a project, which is to master the form of the cow. It is the latest of Dorries ventures since returning to the backbenches. Friday Night with Nadine, will air at 8pm every Friday on TalkTV. By Stephen Bush PA Images NADINE Dorries, one of Boris Johnsons fiercest defenders, will stand down as Culture Secretary following his departure from No 10. Elsewhere, Dorries criticised Rishi Sunak as the submarine prime minister while Johnson is out there making the case as the Tory poll rating collapses. Nadine Dorries Boris Johnson We are poorer but what are our politicians doing about it? Boris Johnson Is First Guest on Nadine Dorries Chat Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries was snapped staring at the premier by cameras in the House of Commons while Boris Johnson spoke at the despatch box at When Mr Sunak resigned as chancellor, he blamed divisions over economic policy and the government's integrity. The Chatterer is the New Statesmans media and gossip blog. Controversial Ex-U.K. Frost-Nixon it was not, as the host disregarded many of the conventions of a serious political interview. She has decried left-wing snowflakes for killing comedy, tearing down historic statues, removing books from universities, dumbing down panto, removing Christ from Christmas and suppressing free speech. Dorries had her own panel there, to analyse her interview. It really isnt even that maddening, its so laughable its enough to cheer you up. Dorries said: There was so much that was going on that was good and right. Part of HuffPost Politics. She added he was leading the world in coalescing Western leaders. Support 110 years of independent journalism. Sign up to receive information regarding NS events, subscription offers & product updates. Tanks were sent to Ukraine two weeks ago, six months after Johnson left office. "And what do you call that bit [pointing to his upper back] of the cow? Sunaks best man: can James Forsyth help save the Conservatives? TalkTV employs large numbers of excellent journalists, not one of whom whispered a word out of their social media accounts about a sit down prime-time interview with a former prime minister happening on their own fledgling channel, which obviously tells you everything you need to know about it. But Johnson remained adamant in his stance on the matter. Johnson, to his slight credit, looked like he wanted to die, which did at least make one thing clear. Ms Dorries can be seen defending Mr Johnson and at times during the clip shrugs as Guru-Murthy lays into the Prime Minister's 'clearly untrue' claims. Johnson and this might have been a television first looked genuinely mortified, and said the timing was a coincidence. Boris Johnson is a decaying political product. 2023 Variety Media, LLC. I think it's called the withers. 2023 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved. 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Nows the time to find out what he really thinks about a whole range of pressing issues., Richard Wallace, head of TV for News Broadcasting, added: Nadine has a unique voice in British politics and will bring that unique voice to our air. She But while Dorries was incompetent in her ministerial role, she performed excellently as Boris Johnsons chief brown-noser, staying faithful to the former PM until he met his bitter end. The ribbing she's received online shouldn't come as too much of a surprise given some of her fawning comments during interviews. She tried drawing attention to "lots of things Keir Starmer shouldn't have said" and insisted: "The prime minister tells the truth". Tonight the great and the woke will honor Karl Lagerfeld at the Met show-off-athon, even though he was a major sexist, fatphobe and callous racist. Boris Johnson s faithful ally Nadine Dorries stuck by the prime minister even as his other loyalist supporters fled. 3-min read Nadine Dorries and Boris Johnson on the set of her TalkTV show Friday Night With Nadine. During the Conservative leadership contest, which followed Mr Johnson's resignation, she was repeatedly critical of Mr Sunak, accusing him of leading a "ruthless coup". One of thems got to go back to work on Monday morning, actually running a think tank.). Boris Johnson victim of Tory leadership plotters, says ally Nadine Have your say in our news democracy. The interview also revealed that Johnson almost blacks out laughing at the Peter Sellers Pink Panther films, and that hes attempting to master drawing cows. 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The fact that Conservative MPs are even considering putting Boris Johnson back in Number 10 shows how out of touch they really are, she said. She went on that Johnson saw that we needed to get involved (in Ukraine) very early on when not everyone was, in an apparent reference to a cabinet split. A former nurse, born in Liverpool, the MP for Mid Bedfordshire is already a successful author of romantic historical novels set in Liverpool and Ireland. Cows are actually far more difficult to draw than you think," he explained. But Dorriess appointment isnt a sour note, or at odds with the rest of the reshuffle: it sums up, rather than defies, the general pattern of the governments reorganisation. He added: "Pictures of parts of cows, and a lot of whole cows and my objective is to master the cow. Some of them gamely tried to insert a bit of balance themselves, to offer a bit of perspective, to rescue Dorries from herself. A weekly newsletter helping you fit together the pieces of the global economic slowdown. Read about our approach to external linking. I'm getting there. The Mid Bedfordshire MP is expected to stand in the next general election, and her chances of re-election are high. Nadine Dorries interviewing Boris Johnson on 'Friday Night with Nadine'. Boris Johnson 2023 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved. Hunter Biden claims he's paid Lunden Roberts $750k - $20,000 a month - in child support as the former lovers face off in Arkansas courts over payments for four-year-old daughter, Jack Dorsey says Elon Musk is NOT the best person to run Twitter as he says it 'all went south' for the billionaire after he bought the tech giant for $44B, Cult mom Lori Vallow's hair was found on DUCT TAPE wrapped around son JJ, 7, after he was suffocated inside a plastic bag, DNA expert tells court. Both individuals are actually far nicer and more amusing than you might otherwise imagine. "This is how I looked at my bacon roll this morning.". I. One Conservative MP described the move to me as the one sour note in the reshuffle, another as the single solitary mistake in an otherwise perfect day. How VERY stylish! Most populous nation: Should India rejoice or panic? In 2021, in a government select committee hearing, Dorries who had supported the bid to privatize Its a Sin broadcaster Channel 4 appeared not to know how the U.K. broadcaster is funded, stating that it was in receipt of public money, when in fact Channel 4 is publicly owned but funded by advertising. GOING. Nadine Dorries refuses to rule out possibility of Boris Johnson comeback BBC One The Tories are in turmoil, with Liz Truss taking flack on all sides following the disastrous mini-budget and Nadine Dorries thinks theres only one MP who can help them. Nadine Dorries Your new guide to the best writing on ideas, politics, books and culture each weekend - from the New Statesman. The secret mine that hid the Nazis' stolen treasure. When Dorries asked Johnson who he would rather be stuck in a lift with, either Labour leader Keir Starmer or Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon, the ex-PM gave a pretty diplomatic answer. In an interview with Sky News, Nadine Dorries, the secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport, said the outgoing prime minister, Boris Johnson, was What do you call the back of the knee of the cow? The hock.. The US and Germany are listening to you, cooed Dorries. Boris Johnson and Nadine Dorries tweeted identical statements expressing solidarity with the Labour deputy leader after Tories reportedly accused her of a ploy to distract the Prime Minister in the Commons . The first episode of Nadine Dorries ' Friday night talkshow is almost upon us - and her first guest is none other than the former prime minister Boris Johnson. Get 5 off 70 and 20 off 200, exclusively for new and existing My John Lewis members. The New Statesmans weekly environment email on the politics, business and culture of the climate and nature crises - in your inbox every Thursday. Another random fact we learned about Johnson - he's a fan of the Pink Panther films and watches them with his kids. She has maintained that Johnson always tells the truth throughout the Partygate scandal and even defended the prime ministers false claim that Labour leader Keir Starmer had a hand in not prosecuting serial sex offender Jimmy Savile. By entering your email and clicking Sign Up, you're agreeing to let us send you customized marketing messages about us and our advertising partners. Sign up and we will email you daily with the best of our political and news coverage while also giving you a taste of our most-popular lifestyle, opinion and personal blogs. The Chatterer assumes that most of the journalists who joined Talk TV did not do so to become a propaganda outlet for Boris Johnson. its an abuse of power. Today he shills crypto in Singapore, and fields cake-soft questions from his political outriders. Now that Johnson is no longer in Number 10 and has more time on his hands, the backbencher revealed how he's been learning how to paint cows. 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