Nadine Dorries's The Plot: what she claims in her explosive book

Reviewers describe the memoir as 'bizarre' and 'the weirdest book I've ever read'

Nadine Dorries
The former culture secretary stood down in June 2023 after 18 years as a Conservative MP
(Image credit: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Colourful claims about a dead rabbit, a shadowy man called Dr No and a tampered-with CCTV camera are among the highlights of former Tory minister Nadine Dorries's new book, "The Plot".

Reviewing it for The Times, Patrick Maguire described "The Plot" as "the single weirdest book I have ever read"; The Telegraph wondered whether Dorries had "lost the plot"; and The Independent said the book is simply "bizarre".

Subscribe to The Week

Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.

SUBSCRIBE & SAVE
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/flexiimages/jacafc5zvs1692883516.jpg

Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters

From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.

From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.

Sign up

  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.