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I'm a Celebrity: Nadine Dorries 'would do it all again' | I'm a Celebrity: Nadine Dorries 'would do it all again' |
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Conservative MP Nadine Dorries has returned to the UK ready to defend her decision to appear on TV reality show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! | Conservative MP Nadine Dorries has returned to the UK ready to defend her decision to appear on TV reality show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! |
Ms Dorries said she had only taken three parliamentary sitting days off. | |
She said she was "angry with what they've been writing" and insisted that she would "do it all again". | She said she was "angry with what they've been writing" and insisted that she would "do it all again". |
The Mid-Bedfordshire MP, who was suspended from the parliamentary party, will meet Conservative Chief Whip Sir George Young on Tuesday. | |
She travelled to Australia to take part in the prime-time ITV reality programme while the Commons was sitting. Sir George suspended the party whip from the MP when the decision was announced. | |
'Panic' | |
A Downing Street spokesman said it was "not a formality" that she would get the whip back, as she had to "explain her decision to go off to the jungle". | |
Ms Dorries, the first contestant voted off the show, told BBC Three Counties Radio: "I think when they realised that I was going to speak to an audience of 12 million people, there was a kind of panic took over because I think they thought I was going to go and talk about David Cameron and George Osborne. | |
"I never was. That's not the reason why I did it. But I think a panic and a reaction set in, which has actually now made me the best known MP in Britain. I don't think that really was what they were trying to achieve." | |
Announcing her return to the UK on Twitter, Ms Dorries wrote: "Arrived in Heathrow to scores of Paps - has world gone mad? I've HAD ONLY 3 SITTING DAYS AWAY!! REST WAS HALF TERM!" | |
Speaking to reporters Ms Dorries said she would "do it all again" but said: "I'm angry at what they've been writing in the press." | Speaking to reporters Ms Dorries said she would "do it all again" but said: "I'm angry at what they've been writing in the press." |
When asked what she would tell her constituents in Mid Bedfordshire, she replied: "I've only taken three parliamentary days off. What they are angry about is what they have read in the newspapers, which is not the truth." | When asked what she would tell her constituents in Mid Bedfordshire, she replied: "I've only taken three parliamentary days off. What they are angry about is what they have read in the newspapers, which is not the truth." |
A source close to Sir George said Ms Dorries had been "very clearly" informed in a letter that she had been suspended pending their meeting. | |