In Nadine Dorries new book, The Plot: The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson, she reveals what really goes on behind the doors of number 10 and who the actual power players are.
In the final exclusive extract of Nadine Dorries' sensational exposé of the dark forces at the heart of the Tory Party, she reveals how Iain Duncan Smith was brought down by a confected scandal about his wife's salary — and that he warned Boris Johnson the same would happen to him.
IDS is a wise and honourable man, one worth listening to and with valuable information to impart to me for my probe into the shadowy cabal — Dominic Cummings, Tory apparatchik Dougie Smith, Secretary of State Michael Gove and a powerful, very frightening individual I have codenamed Dr No — who have been at the heart of the Conservative Party for years.'I presume you will want to be anonymous,' I say to him. 'Goodness, no,' he replies. 'Happy for it all to be in my name.
Like Boris, he knows what it is like to be manoeuvred out of the leadership of the party. He led it for two years, from 2001 to 2003, succeeding William Hague after Hague lost the 2001 General Election to a Labour landslide that gave Tony Blair his second term as Prime Minister. Then he was ousted to make way for Michael Howard.
He is scathing about the cabal who have secretly operated within the Conservative Party for so long. 'Most of the men who have caused such problems within the Conservative Party and have removed leaders, they were involved back then and were anti-Maastricht at the time. . 'Gove said this to me once: 'I believe the party needs to be burnt in the inferno and out of it should come a new party, which is modern. We know what modern Britain looks like, we don't bang on about Europe. What we want to do is get on and change our attitudes and views on the health service, everything else.'
'It was Owen Paterson, my PPS , who was the first to raise the alarm,' IDS continued. 'He kept saying to me: 'Iain, these people are going to bring you down. They just want to use you to take control with their own agenda to destroy the party.' 'But that was nonsense, as the single currency was a massive issue and it was clear that was where Labour wanted to take the UK, into the euro.
'They tried to insert their people into key roles in my administration. They brought someone into the outer office who took a ton of notes of everything that was going on in the office. I began to be pressured by MPs who supported me to get some of these people out because it was becoming a nightmare.
'Cummings was working for me at the time; Gove brought him in. I parted company with him because he was a disaster. All he ever did was brief to the papers. Cummings then went for me along with the others. Just as he has done with Boris. Formerly a member of the Federation of Conservative Students and a member of 'the movement', it felt like he had always been around and about Westminster. The brother of Nick Gibb MP, you didn't have to follow too many breadcrumbs to trace his path into No 10.
IDS continued: 'That accusation about Betsy was utterly astonishing and felt like a total set-up. The thing that they tried to latch on to was that Betsy worked for me during that time; what they didn't realise was that she did work for me, very hard indeed. 'An inquiry was called for and announced; they knew once an inquiry was started, bingo, they had me. They could manipulate the media and public opinion and turn MPs against me.'
'It was all so elaborate and well-orchestrated. Just like Boris, I faced a confidence motion, which I lost and ceased being leader. All on the back of public hysteria, which MPs, being the cowards most of them are, quite frankly buckle under.' 'I also had to defend myself against these totally malicious charges at what would now be called the privileges committee.
Who of sane mind would think there were people in the party so willing to dismiss the vote of the nation?The party had been imploding for some time and her own Remain ministers negotiated with Labour to remove her and impose a temporary government while the country re-ran the EU referendum.It was only when Corbyn insisted on being the named prime minister that the plan fell down. If they had reached an agreement, the very ministers May thought were her allies would have had her removed, too.
'Supportive?' he replied. 'He was infatuated with him. His behaviour used to dramatically alter when he was with Cameron; it was pitiful to watch.
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