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As she leaves the Commons, Conservative MP Nadine Dorries insults the Prime Minister.

After stating she would leave "with immediate effect" more than two months ago, Nadine Dorries has now resigned from the Commons.

In her letter of resignation, she unleashed a scathing attack on Rishi Sunak, warning the prime minister that "history will not judge you kindly."

On June 9, the Mid Bedfordshire MP made her initial resignation announcement.

She claimed that Mr. Sunak had abandoned "the fundamental principles of conservatism" and claimed that a "zombie Parliament" now ruled the nation.

Since she hadn't spoken in the Commons since June 2022, Ms. Dorries, whose MP pay is £86,584, had come under increasing pressure to follow through on her threat to leave.

The former nurse claimed to have given the prime minister her letter of resignation, which she then posted on Mail Online.

The Treasury acknowledged receiving notification of her desire to formally resign.

Tuesday is expected to see the appointment of Ms. Dorries to the historic office of Steward and Bailiff of the Three Hundreds of Chiltern, the mysterious procedure by which MPs may depart the Commons before to an election.

This will make it possible for the Conservative Party to call a Mid Bedfordshire by-election.

Ms. Dorries later stated that she wanted to learn the reason why she was denied a seat in the House of Lords, after declaring in June that she would resign with immediate effect.

It was generally believed former Prime Minister Boris Johnson would elevate her to the rank of peer in his list of honors upon his resignation.

Ms. Dorries charged Mr. Sunak with "demeaning his office by opening the gates to whip up a public frenzy" against her in a lengthy statement.

According to her, this led to "threats to my person" and "the police having to visit my home and contact me on a number of occasions."

Nadine Dorries: who is she?

The mother of three, who was born in Liverpool, claims that her upbringing was warm and caring, but she also recalled having to "hide from the rent man because we couldn't pay him," she told the Guardian. There would be no food on some days.

After graduating from high school, she pursued nursing training. Her work as a nurse frequently influenced the political causes she supported, such as advocating for shorter abortion waiting periods and testing pregnant women for group B strep.

She was a latecomer to politics and had pondered joining Labour, but the Right to Buy program that had allowed her mother to purchase her council house changed her mind.

She was chosen as the MP for Mid Bedfordshire in 2005, but she was expelled from the parliamentary Conservative party in 2012 after choosing to go on ITV's I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here.

Prior to being named to the cabinet in 2021 when Boris Johnson made her the culture secretary, she later served as the health minister.

Her most recent novel, The Plot: The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson, is scheduled to be released in September after a number of novels.

She made the following statement regarding Mr. Sunak's leadership: "Since you entered office a year ago, the country is run by a zombie Parliament where nothing significant has transpired.

"The government is at sea, and you have no mandate from the people. What have you wasted the nation's goodwill for?

There is no love for [Labour leader] Keir Starmer outside on the doorstep, she added. Sadly, Prime Minister, neither he nor you possess the winning X-factor traits of a Thatcher, Blair, or Boris Johnson.

She continued: Due to your impatience to become prime minister, you put your personal ambition before the stability of the nation and our economy, leaving 200 or more of my MP colleagues to face an electoral tsunami and the destruction of their livelihoods.

We search fruitlessly for the grand political vision that the citizens of this vast nation can cling to, that would make all of this upheaval and the ensuing stagnation meaningful, but we come up with nothing, we are bewildered.

She charged that the prime minister was not collaborating with UK businesses to increase opportunities.

"You flashed your gleaming smile in your Prada shoes and Savile Row suit from behind a camera, but you just weren't listening," she remarked.

In her Mid Bedfordshire seat, the town councils of Flitwick and Shefford both urged Ms. Dorries to resign immediately, claiming that she had "abandoned the local area."

Shefford's mayor, Ken Pollard, told the BBC that her constituency office had been converted into a dance studio a few years prior to its closure.

It eventually became challenging to communicate with Nadine on any level, he claimed.

Ms. Dorries rejects this in her statement, stating, "My team of caseworkers and I have continued to work for my constituents faithfully and diligently to this day."

However, Ed Davey, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, claimed that the residents of Mid Bedfordshire "deserve better than this circus act that has followed the Conservatives these past few months."

Peter Kyle, the director of Labour's Mid Bedfordshire campaign, declared himself "relieved" for the district's residents.

"They are furious that there is a governing party that is facing each other and railing with each other while they are facing daily crises in their lives and in their communities," the shadow secretary for Northern Ireland told Sky News.