Nadine Dorries Net Worth 2022, Age, Husband, Children, Height, Family, Parents, Salary

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Nadine Dorries is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport from 2021 to 2022. A member of the Conservative Party, she has been a Member of Parliament (MP) for Mid Bedfordshire since 2005. Dorries was raised in the city’s Anfield district and the nearby towns of Halewood and Runcorn. She began work as a trainee nurse in Warrington and subsequently became a medical representative. During her early career, she spent a year in Zambia as the head of a community school.

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Dorries founded Company Kids Ltd after returning to England, which provided child daycare services for working parents. She sold the company in 1998. She was first elected to the House of Commons at the 2005 general election for the Conservative safe seat of Mid Bedfordshire. As a backbencher, Dorries introduced several unsuccessful private member’s bills, including attempts to reduce the time limit for abortions in the UK and changes to the rules regarding counselling for the women involved, and the advocacy of sexual abstinence for girls in sex education. An opponent of John Bercow, she attempted to have him removed as Speaker of the House of Commons.

She also clashed with David Cameron and George Osborne, describing them as “two arrogant posh boys”. In 2012, she lost the Conservative whip after she took part in the reality TV program I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! without informing the chief whip. It was returned in 2013 and she was re-admitted to the parliamentary party. In July 2019, Boris Johnson appointed Dorries as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Health and Social Care with responsibility for mental health, suicide prevention, and patient safety.

In May 2020, Nadine Dorries was advanced to Minister of State. Johnson’s cabinet reshuffle in September 2021, he promoted her to Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. Despite being offered to stay on, she resigned from her role as Secretary of State ahead of the formation of the Truss ministry after Truss took over from Johnson on 6 September 2022.

Early life

Name	Nadine Dorries
Net Worth	$4 million
Occupation	Politician
Age	65 years
Height	1.68m

Nadine Dorries net worth

Nadine Vanessa Dorries Bargery was born on May 21, 1957 (age 65 years) in Liverpool, United Kingdom. Her father, a Catholic of Irish descent, was a bus driver who became a lift operator and suffered from Raynaud’s disease. Her mother was an Anglican, and Dorries was raised as such. She was brought up in the Anfield district of Liverpool, where she attended Rose Heath Primary School.

Dorries attended Halewood Grange Comprehensive School in Halewood before moving with her family to Runcorn. She grew up on a council estate and entered nursing in 1975 as a trainee at Warrington General Hospital. According to an interview with The Times in 2014, Dorries’ parents divorced during her adolescence. While training to be a nurse at 21, she shared a flat with her father. He died at the age of 42.

Career

Nadine Dorries was a nurse from 1978 to 1981 in Warrington and Liverpool according to a 2009 report. Her CV when she was a parliamentary candidate in 2001 stated Liverpool and London as places where she worked as a nurse. She left the Liverpool area after she married mining engineer Paul Dorries.

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Dorries became a medical representative to Ethicla Ltd in 1982 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. In 1987 she founded Company Kids Ltd, 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.

She was selected as the prospective parliamentary candidate (PPC) for Hazel Grove, near Manchester in the spring of 2000. Her candidacy split the constituency party, and she was briefly deselected in August before being imposed by the Conservative Central Office. Standing for 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 with a majority of 8,435 votes. Dorries worked for three years as a special adviser to Oliver Letwin, when Shadow Chancellor, to sort out his relations with the media amongst other things.

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Health issues

Nadine Dorries suffers from dyslexia. On 23 April 2022, after accidentally saying “downstream” instead of download and tennis “pitch” instead of tennis court in a TikTok video, she said it was sometimes “difficult” to say words correctly and said she “found it tough seeing commentators and media outlets mock me for something that is beyond my control.” However, Dorries was sworn in as a member of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council on 20 September 2021 at Balmoral Castle. This gave her the honorific prefix “The Right Honourable” for life. In 2008, Nadine Dorries

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Husband

Nadine Dorries was married to Paul Dorries, they had their wedding in 1984. Her husband was a mining engineer. The couple had three daughters before separating in 2007 and subsequently divorcing; he suffered from multiple sclerosis and she said they had reached “entirely different stages in their lives”. However, Dorries is a keen supporter of Liverpool F.C., but has said that her great-grandfather George Bargery was one of the founders of rival team Everton F.C. and was the team’s first ever goalkeeper. As of mid-2022, Nadine Dorries is still not married after separating from her ex-husband.