Announcing she would resign with immediate effect some 78 days ago, Nadine Dorries has finally resigned as an MP.

What I like about this second coming of her “resignation with immediate effect” is her open attack on Rishi Sunak. Amazingly, I couldn’t agree more with her - and just once, for a change, she is not talking rubbish! 

Why?

I am not getting into her accusation that the Prime Minister demeaned his office by refusing her a seat in the House of Lords. For me, it seems her resignation at this particular moment is designed to inflict maximum damage to the conservative party and especially to Rishi Sunak PM.

Nadine’s quitting interview states clearly:

“I’m actually shocked that the Prime Minister himself has kind of opened the door on free hits at me from anybody who wants to make them throughout the summer . . . it’s kind of whipped up a public frenzy and it’s resulted in the police having to visit my home . . . but this nonsense that my constituency and my constituents have been ignored, it is nonsense.”

She went even further:

“It is nonsense that he became Prime Minister without a single members’ vote or a vote from the public, no one has voted for him to be in that job.”

Not long ago Rishi Sunak openly stated in a live radio interview:

“I think people deserve to have an MP that represents them wherever they are and, you know, it’s just making sure that your MP is engaging with you, representing you - whether that’s speaking in parliament, or being present in their constituencies during surgeries, answering your letters – that’s a job of an MP and all MP’s should be held to that standard; so she’s failing in that isn’t she? . . . at the moment people aren’t being properly represented.”

We all know that all this began back in June, with a row about a peerage promised by Boris Johnson which she believed was blocked by Rishi Sunak. Since then, calls for her to go have been coming from all sides.

In one way, I’m just really relieved for the residents of mid Bedfordshire who have been caught up in the civil war which is raging at the heart of the conservative party.

Since her election in 2005, she’s presented herself as a working-class girl from Liverpool done good.

She is notoriously not a fan of posh boys, apart from one - Boris Johnson. And here we have the final act of loyalty, the long-awaited levelling off to inflict the by election. William Shakespeare would thrive on this stuff.

But - whatever your politics - you cannot deny Nadine’s version of the truth “You hold the office of Prime Minister unelected, without a single vote, not even from your own MPs. You have no mandate from the people, and the Government is adrift.”