David Cameron the Tory leader has slapped down backbencher Nadine Dorries who claimed that MPs were victims of a "McCarthystyle witchhunt" over their expenses claims.

TORY leader David Cameron had to slap down two backbenchers yesterday as he fought to prove his party was in tune with public opinion on the expenses row.

Late last night I was reading reports that David Cameron was furious with Nadine Dorries for suggesting that MPs were stressed about having their venal expenses claims exposed in the Daily Telegraph. I went on to her website to find that her blog had been taken down. It was still, at the time, available in the Google cache and so I saved it. You may still catch it all here. It seemed likely that s...

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Last night I spoke at an event organised by the public affairs consultancy Weber Shandwick. A panel of four of us mulled over what might happen under a future Tory government, and whether David Cameron would be beholden to the right. The other speakers were Andrew Haldenby from REFORM, Nadine Dorries and Bruce Anderson. The points I made in my brief talk were that... * What we mean by the right to...

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This gets better and better by the hour. David Cameron has now had to publicly rebuke ‘high-flying Tory’ Nadine Dorries for her “witch-hunt” comments. “Of course MPs are concerned about what is happening but, frankly, MPs ought to be concerned about what their constituents think and ought to be worrying about the people who put

Nadine Dorries has written a rather charming blogpost about a private dinner she had with several MP colleagues and David Cameron earlier this week. It's a fairly indiscreet blogpost but gives a sense of how she has been won over by David Cameron having been a bit of a sceptic. She also compares him with Gordon Brown in a number of ways, none of which are very flattering to the Prime Minister....

Nadine Dorries, Tory MP, has admitted she claimed her constituency home as her "Second home" for the purposes of claiming vast expenses. So where was her first home? In the Cotswolds, apparently. Astonishingly, Nadine admits deliberately concealing from her constituents that she did not live either in her constituency or near Parliament. Nadine Dorries says: I never wanted my constituents to think...

David Cameron is understood to have apologised to Tory MP Nadine Dorries who voiced "frustration" at Lib Dem influence and told him to show Nick Clegg "who's the boss".