Nadine Dorries

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Nadine Vanessa Dorries (born 21 May 1957) is a British politician. She is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Mid Bedfordshire.

Born Nadine Vanessa Bargery in Liverpool, she was educated at Halewood Grange Comprehensive School. She entered nursing in 1975 as a trainee at Warrington General Hospital, and from 1978 practised as a nurse in both London and Liverpool, until 1981. In 1982 she became a medical representative to Ethicla Ltd for a year, before spending a year in Zambia as the head of a community school. In 1987 she became the managing director of Kids Company Ltd, before becoming a director of BUPA in 1998 for a year. She unsuccessfully contested the constituency of Hazel Grove at the 2001 general election, and was defeated by the sitting Liberal Democrat MP Andrew Stunell by 8,435 votes.

She was elected to the House of Commons at the 2005 general election for the safe seat of Mid Bedfordshire on the retirement through ill health of Jonathan Sayeed. Nadine Dorries has a majority of 11,355, and made her maiden speech on May 25, 2005. [1]. From 2005-2006, she was a member of the Education & Skills Select Committee.

She is married to Paul Dorries and they have three daughters. She spent most of her life living on a council estate in Liverpool, until taking advantage of the Right to Buy Scheme championed by Margaret Thatcher. Although her grandfather was one of the founders of Everton Football Club, she is a keen Liverpool Football Club supporter.

She is socially conservative, a member of the right-wing Cornerstone Group [2] (February 9 2007 entry), and in 2006 introduced a private member's bill, which would reduce the time limit for abortion from 24 to 21 weeks, provide a 'cooling-off' period for women wishing to have an abortion, and would ensure, following the conclusion of the cooling off period, speedy access to abortion.[3]