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WATCH: Nadine Dorries blasts Tories for replacing Boris Johnson with 'duds'
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Sep 5, 2025
Nadine Dorries has told GB News that British politics is at a "dangerous point in history" as she warned of further splits in both the Conservative and Labour parties.Speaking at the Reform UK conference following her defection from the Tories, Ms Dorries told GB News Political Correspondent Katherine Forster that Reform is the "party of the moment".FULL STORY HERE.
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They unveiled last night, didn't they? Quite a spectacular defection
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Nadine Dorris, of course, former Culture Secretary, former Boris Johnson loyalist, has moved over to reform. Nadine, thank you very much for talking to us on GB News
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You were involved with the Conservative Party for three decades. You said yesterday that the Conservative Party is dead
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Why did you say that, first of all? And secondly, what was the single point at which you think things went wrong for them
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Well, the single point where it went wrong, to take your last point first, was when Boris Johnson was removed as prime minister
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And I think, you know, if a party removes an election-winning prime minister
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once Margaret Thatcher, it can be seen as a big mistake. When they do it twice and then elect duds in their place
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and then elect Kemi Battenok to lead the Conservative Party, who hasn't announced a
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policy of any substance in the 12 months that she been leader you kind of realise that if a party can function itself it can run the country And I think that what we seeing now with the Labour Party which is falling apart
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it will split into two. Angela Rayner will become part of the far-left movement with Jeremy Corbyn
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pro-Gaza independence, probably unite with Polanski from the Greens, he's a left-wing firebrand
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We're going to see a split in the Labour Party. We've had that split in the Conservative Party
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And believe me, no one knows better than I do. We've had that split and those divisions in the Conservative Party for a very long time
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And, you know, politics has moved on. Thanks partly to GP News, people are better informed
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People know more about what's going on. They're hearing the other side of the story. Politics has very much moved on now
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And the Conservative Party hasn't, and neither has Labour. And I think both parties have shown that when they are tested
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when they are brought to government, they just can't do it. They can't function as governing parties in any way which is effective and they can't
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deliver So that why I with reform now because I think we at a very dangerous point in our history when you paying 5 interest on your debt the message is very clear The global economic community I think as a country
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a government cannot manage your public finances and cannot manage public spending
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You know, I lived through the 70s. This is a road that leads to a bad place
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And I feel that now, both Nigel Farage and Reform are the party of the moment
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So you said that you think it all went wrong when they got rid of Boris Johnson
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I interviewed Boris Johnson for GB News just a couple of days ago. He totally agrees with you
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He said that he would have won the election. But the difference is that he feels
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that the Conservatives can come back from this. I suspect he still feels that he's got unfinished business
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You have abandoned them, haven't you? You've given up. You've given up on Boris Johnson
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Boris Johnson has given that one. No, Boris and I are good friends and we are throughout this
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You know, that makes no difference. You think there's no way back for Boris Johnson, though? So I think there room for all great men and women of talent in politics because the country needs them The problem with the Conservative Party is they needed Boris Johnson at the last election
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and they blocked him, they kept him out. And a party that behaves in that way, that is not
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doing what is the right thing to do for the party and the country, they could have beaten
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Labour if they'd had Boris Johnson. The party that behaves in that, there's something fundamentally
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and seriously wrong. Boris Johnson has not been welcomed back into the Conservative Party since
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The fact that we lost so badly to Labour was purely as a result of Conservative MPs
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removing an election-winning Prime Minister. Now, Boris is always going to be loyal to the Conservative Party
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He will have to be. He's a former Prime Minister. I'm not. I've decided that now is the time for me to come to the age of the Reform Party
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and to pledge the loyalty I pledge to Boris and to the Conservatives to reform, because there is a job to do
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And reformer, the only party with answers to some of the really serious problems
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we're facing, whether it's law and order, illegal migration, that they've got serious answers to serious problems
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No-one else has
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