Nadine Dorries formally quits as MP and is handed new role months after handing in her resignation
The Mid Bedforeshire MP has officially left her position
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Nadine Dorries has formally quit her role as the MP for Mid Bedfordshire.
The Treasury has announced her official departure, months after Dorries handed in her notice.
"The Chancellor of the Exchequer has this day appointed Nadine Vanessa Dorries to be Steward and Bailiff of the Three Hundreds of Chiltern," the Treasury said in a statement posted on social media, which Dorries shared with her followers.
Dorries has now been appointed the role of Steward and Bailiff of the Three Hundreds of Chiltern.
The former minister has not said whether she will vote for the Conservatives in the next general election
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The former Mid Bedfordshire MP announced on 9 June that she would be resigning from her role with "immediate effect".
The resignation came after Dorries, a key ally of former Prime Minister Boris Johnston, failed to get a peerage in his resignation list honours.
However, she failed to formally vacate her seat until today.
This has meant that a by-election has not been able to take place yet.
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The former Mid Bedfordshire MP announced on 9 June that she would be resigning from her role
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Dorries said she was delaying her exit to investigate why she was refused a seat in the House of Lords.
The former minister has not said whether she will vote for the Conservatives in the next general election.
The seat is highly desired by both Labour and the Liberal Democrats, who have wasted no time in stepping up their campaigns in Mid Bedfordshire.
Both parties were already out in the constituency just hours after Dorries stepped down.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer told LBC: "She said she would resign with immediate effect. I don’t know what her dictionary definition of immediate effect is, but 10 weeks after the event doesn’t seem to be immediate effect."