Kemi Badenoch has hit back at Nadine Dorries for her latest book 'The Plot', in which the former Culture Secretary has accused Badenoch of playing a role in the ousting for ex Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
The book, released in November 2023, claims British politics is controlled by a 'shady faction' who have been at the heart of the Conservative Party for more than 20 years.
Dorries claims Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove, former senior adviser Dominic Cummings and Conservative Party adviser Dougie Smith were part of the 'faction' who helped topple Boris Johnson as Tory leader.
Johnson was forced to resign after the Partygate scandal following the Coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
Kemi Badenoch says Nadine Dorries' book is 'nonsense'
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Taking to social media Dorries called out Badenoch and "thanked" her for "plugging" her book.
In the post, featuring a clip from her appearance on BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, she said: "Thanks to Kemi Badenoch for plugging THE PLOT - which lays out her role in the downfall of Boris Johnson and predicts her maneuvering at the direction of her puppet masters, Dougie Smith, Gove, Cummings et al to get her into No10."
Responding to the claims made in the book, Badenoch hit back at Dorries on GB News and told Camilla Tominey that the claims are "insulting".
Badenoch made clear when questioned by Camilla on her relationship with Gove and Smith that there are "a lot of lies" made by Dorries.
Nadine Dorries hit out at Kemi Badenoch and 'thanked' her for plugging her book 'The Plot'
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Badenoch dismissed suggestions that she is too close to people such as Michael Gove and Dougie Smith, who "plotted" to bring down Boris Johnson.
She told GB News: “There are several things that I need to say. One, almost everything in Nadine’s book, for me, almost everything in the Nadine Dorries book is nonsense…
“What they're doing is really insulting me and my intelligence that I couldn't possibly be making decisions without these people telling me what to do.”
Kemi Badenoch told Camilla Tominey said Dorries is 'insulting her and her intelligence'
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Badenoch fumed: "One of my constituents bought the book and told me I know this isn't true because I was there at your selection.
"What is described there is nonsense, that you were the chosen one, there was somebody from Number 10 we all knew, was the person we were expected to pick. So there are a lot of lies there.
"Do I know Michael Gove? Yes, he was my Secretary of State. We worked very well together.
"Do you know why they say it? Because they look at me and they look at what I say and they think she couldn't possibly have thought of that herself. Some man from somewhere must have put it in her brain, is what they're really saying."