Nadine Dorries
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Nadine Dorries MP |
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Nadine Dorries delivering her General Election acceptance speech, 8 May 2015
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Member of Parliament for Mid Bedfordshire |
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Assumed office 5 May 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Jonathan Sayeed |
| Majority | 23,327 (40.2%) |
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Nadine Vanessa Bargery 21 May 1957 Liverpool, Lancashire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Paul Dorries (div.) |
| Children | 3 daughters |
| Religion | Anglican |
Nadine Vanessa Dorries (née Bargery; born 21 May 1957) is the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Mid Bedfordshire, a seat she has held since the 2005 general election.
Born in Liverpool, she began work as a trainee nurse and subsequently became a medical representative. During her early career she spent a year in Zambia as the head of a community school. After returning to the UK she founded Company Kids Ltd, which provided child day-care services for working parents. She sold the company in 1998.
Dorries was elected to the House of Commons at the 2005 general election as MP for the safe seat of Mid-Bedfordshire, with a majority of 11,355. She is on the political right of the Conservative Party. and has introduced several unsuccessful Private Member's Bills; including attempts to reduce the time limit for abortions in Great Britain and changes to the rules regarding counselling for the women involved, and the advocacy of sexual abstinence for girls in sex education. She is an opponent of the current Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, and has attempted to have him removed from the post. She also clashed the former party leader, David Cameron, describing him and George Osborne as "two arrogant posh boys". In 2008 Dorries won The Spectator magazine's Readers' Representative Award, and in 2012 she was voted best MP on Twitter by the politics.co.uk website.
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