Cabinet minister Nadine Dorries has claimed that Channel 4 faked a reality TV show she appeared on by hiring actors to play poverty-stricken people on a housing estate.... The culture secretary appeared on the reality documentary programme Tower Block of Commons in which she briefly lived on an estate in London’s south Acton neighbourhood.... She added: “ Netflix has done what many businesses do....

Cabinet minister Nadine Dorries has admitted that “ regicide runs in the veins ” of the Conservatives, as Boris Johnson fights to save his premiership from a growing backbench rebellion. The culture secretary also suggested anti-Brexit Tory MPs were behind a plot to get rid of Mr Johnson as he struggles to recover from the Partygate scandal. However, Ms Dorries also claimed the vast majority of backbenchers were still behind Mr Johnson – suggesting that “ 97 per cent ” of Tory MPs backed him.“ T