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Nadine Vanessa Dorries (née Bargery; born 21 May 1957) is the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Mid Bedfordshire, a seat she has held since the 2005 general election. Dorries was born into a working-class family in Liverpool, England. She was originally a nurse and subsequently became a medical representative. During her early career she spent a year in Zambia as the head of a community school. After returning to the UK she founded Company Kids Ltd, which provided child day-care services for working parents. The company was sold in 1998. Dorries was elected to the House of Commons at the 2005 general election for the safe seat of Mid-Bedfordshire, with a majority of 11,355. Since first taking her seat, Dorries has introduced several unsuccessful Private Member's Bills in the House of Commons, including attempts to reduce the time limit for abortion in Great Britain, to change the rules regarding the counselling of the women involved and the advocacy of sexual abstinence for girls in sex education. She is also an opponent of the current Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow, and has attempted to have him removed from the post. She has clashed too with her party leader, Prime Minister David Cameron, and described Cameron and chancellor George Osborne as "two arrogant posh boys".〔("MP Dorries calls PM and chancellor 'arrogant posh boys'" ), BBC News, 23 April 2012〕 In 2008 Dorries won ''The Spectator'' magazine's Reader's Representative Award, and in 2012 she was voted best MP on Twitter by the politics.co.uk website. On 6 November 2012, she was suspended from the parliamentary Conservative Party owing to her decision to take part in ''I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!'' without informing the Chief Whip.〔Hélène Mulholland ("Tory party suspends Nadine Dorries" ), ''The Guardian'', 6 November 2012〕 The Party whip was returned to Dorries on 8 May 2013.〔 She was re-admitted to the parliamentary party during the following May.〔("Nadine Dorries reinstated as Conservative MP" ), BBC News, 8 May 2013〕 Dorries is on the political right of the Conservative Party.〔Andy McSmith ("Nadine Dorries suspended by Conservative party in row over I'm a Celebrity appearance" ), ''The Independent'', 6 November 2012; Rod Liddle ("The meaning of Nadine Dorries" ), ''The Spectator'', 28 April 2012〕 Journalist Quentin Letts has accused other MPs of feeling "envy" for her flamboyance and publicity skills〔Quentin Letts ("Bold Nadine could taste the almond poison of public mirth", ) ''Daily Mail'', 7 September 2011〕 while in 2012 ''Channel 4 News'' presenter Cathy Newman wrote about "how she stands out in Parliament – a tropical bird in amongst all that dull, grey, plumage on the Commons benches."〔Cathy Newman ("Top five political women of 2012" ), telegraph.co.uk, 28 December 2013〕 In 2013 Adrian Hilton wrote that Dorries "radiates the sort of plain-speaking, unstuffy approachability which is rapidly becoming rather attractive to the disaffected and disillusioned masses". ==Early life== Dorries was born Nadine Vanessa Bargery in Liverpool, the daughter of a bus driver who died aged 42.〔 She was raised in Anfield, Liverpool, and educated at Rose Heath Primary School,〔 〕 and Halewood Grange Comprehensive School (while Alan Bleasdale taught there)〔http://www.halewoodcollege.co.uk The school is now known as Halewood College.〕〔Meg Carter ("The art of spinning: From PR to Parliament", ) ''The Independent'', 8 January 2007), p. 8〕 before her family moved to Runcorn.〔 She grew up on a council estate, and her parents took advantage of the "Right to Buy" scheme.〔(Rosemary Bennett and Helen Rumbelow, 'Tory joy as ex-nurse is picked for safe seat' ), ''The Times'', 4 April 2005, p.26〕〔(Nadine Dorries reveals her Bridget Jones moment ), Metro.co.uk (29 October 2008).〕 She left the Merseyside area after she married mining engineer Paul Dorries. She entered nursing in 1975 as a trainee at Warrington General Hospital.〔(Candidate: Nadine Bargery, Conservative, Hazel Grove ), BBC News, UK General Election 2001〕 From 1978 to 1981, she practised as a nurse in both Warrington and Liverpool according to a 2009 report,〔(Tory MP Demands Apology ), ''Liverpool Echo'', 14 April 2009.〕 but in Liverpool and London according to her CV when she was a candidate in 2001.〔 In 1982, she became a medical representative to Ethicla Ltd for a year, before spending a year in Zambia (1983–84)〔 as the head of a community school, where her husband ran a copper mine.〔 Dorries founded Company Kids Ltd in 1987 which provided child day-care services for working parents. The company was sold in 1998 to BUPA; Dorries was subsequently a director of the health provider during the following year.〔 As Nadine Bargery, she was selected as the Prospective parliamentary candidate (PPC) for Hazel Grove in Spring 2000. Her candidacy split the constituency party, and she was briefly deselected in August〔("Tories in seat fight 'shambles'" ), ''Manchester Evening News'', 3 October 2000〕 before being centrally imposed. Contesting the seat at the 2001 general election, she was unsuccessful in her attempt to succeed the Liberal Democrat candidate Andrew Stunell, who retained the seat by 8,435 votes. Dorries worked for three years〔("The world according to Nadine Dorries", ) ''Daily Telegraph'', 4 November 2007, citing Dorries blog〕 as a special adviser to Oliver Letwin, then Shadow Chancellor, including managing his relations with the media.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nadine Dorries」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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