hello. i m matthew amroliwala. welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories and checking out the truth behind them. i want to just return to the breaking news with uk politics first of all, because the news in the last few minutes that nadine dorries her so she is standing down as an mp with immediate effect, tweeting it has been an honour to serve her mid bedfordshire constituency. the backdrop to this story of course is that we wait for the former prime minister, borisjohnson s resignation honours list, and that has been much delayed around the controversies with some of the names that have been suggested over the months, and also of course the former prime minister s behaviour whilst he was in office and all of that being investigated, but this seems to fit the choreography, because if we wait for that list, she would end up being in the house of lords if she is on that resignation honours list, so nadine dorries saying she is standing down as an mp with immed
seems to fit the choreography, because if we wait for that list, she would end up being in the house of lords if she is on that resignation honours list, so nadine dorries saying she is standing down as an mp with immediate effect. let s go to westminster, ben wright is there. ben, what seems to be the first of what might be a number of announcements we get to hear through the course of the next couple of hours. . , ~ the course of the next couple of hours. . , . . ., , hours. that s right. we certainly ex - ected hours. that s right. we certainly exnected the hours. that s right. we certainly expected the resignation - hours. that s right. we certainlyl expected the resignation honours list for boris johnson to expected the resignation honours list for borisjohnson to be published at some point this afternoon, and about 15 minutes ago, nadine dorries sent out that tweet saying she was standing down as the mp for mid bedfordshire with immediate effect. what we don t know yet is wh
this tweet out now, pre empting very interestingly the official list that we expect to come out from the government later on this afternoon, in the next hour or so. but really interesting she has done this. nadine dorries, former culture secretary, novelist, now talk tv host, a huge cheerleader and back for borisjohnson. defended him to the hilt right the way through all the hilt right the way through all the scandals, through his departure from office, agitating for him to come back in subsequent months, but her political career in the commons now is clearly over while we wait to see who else borisjohnson has given an honour to, either a peerage or knighthood or some other gong. find knighthood or some other gong. and we will talk about some of the politics of this in a moment or two, but this has been much delayed. it has been going on for months and we know all about the controversies and names that have been mentioned, but just for viewers tuning in to this for perhaps the first t