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Refusing to take responsibility for the Mid Bedfordshire by-election defeat this week, Nadine Dorries has come out swinging.

The former culture secretary finally handed in her resignation over the weekend, with a by-election now set to be scheduled in Mid Bedfordshire.

Ms Dorries accused Rishi Sunak of heading up a “zombie Parliament” and betraying Tory principles as she formally announced her resignation 11 weeks after she vowed to go.

But the Lib Dems are also hopeful they can snap up the traditionally safe Tory constituency from third place in 2019.

She launched a scathing attack on the Prime Minister as she handed in her resignation more than two months after pledging to go.

The former minister accused the Prime Minister of ‘squandering the goodwill of the nation’ as she blasted his record.

The party hopes the move will pave the way for a by-election in the Tory former minister’s Mid Bedfordshire seat.

Residents in her Mid Bedfordshire constituency called for the former culture secretary to ‘show up or shove off’.

Conservative former minister Ms Dorries said in June she would leave her parliamentary seat.