So long, Nadine Dorries – but quitting after you didn’t get a peerage is more petulance than politics

She will not be moving to the House of Lords. It will, if nothing else, free up more time to focus on her television show, writes Tom Peck

Nadine Dorries said she is quitting as an MP with immediate effect (PA)

So long then, Nadine Dorries. The most profoundly stupid person in all of British public life has announced, on her own television show, that she can no longer carry on as an MP, out of loyalty to Boris Johnson.

The Tories’ misfortunes, she has stated in content which is not understood to be satirical, are because the public have not forgiven them for getting rid of Boris Johnson, and it is, she says, this behaviour “that I have to remove myself from”. Her decision to resign as an MP after being denied a peerage smacks less of politics than petulance.

It will, if nothing else, free up more time to focus on the television show, perhaps even to undergo some kind of training into how to read an autocue, or conduct an interview, two things which ordinarily do not happen on the job, as Talk TV has been attempting with genuinely mesmerising consequences.