Twenty seven of the most amusing and shocking claims from Nadine Dorries book The Plot

So, after so many exciting pre-publication puffs, Nadine Dorris’s book, The Plot, is out.

She has, she says, “talked to well over 50 people. From prime ministers and party leaders, through Cabinet ministers, to civil servants and back benchers. From party grandees to special advisers. All had the same tale to tell…” It is a story, she says, that has never been told, but just so you know, the subtitle gives the gist: “The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson”.

Here are some of the choicest claims:

1. There is a small group of men, most of them unelected…operating at the heart of the ” and “for 25 years or more they have set out to control the destiny of the Conservative Party”.  They raise up ministers and cast down others, including