Nadine Dorries – 2022 Comments on Liz Truss Needing a Fresh Mandate

The comments made by Nadine Dorries, the Conservative MP for Mid Bedfordshire, on Twitter on 4 October 2022.

We have no mandate from the people to do this.

Conservative Gov elected on basis of a manifesto, it’s how democracy works.

People voted in ‘19 on the policy promises we made (and for Boris).

If we don’t want to deliver on the deal, the promises, we need a fresh mandate.

[Dorries was responding to the below Tweet from TalkTV]

Prime Minister Liz Truss suggests her government could start from scratch on all government policy: “We are going to have to look at things differently as we move forward.”