The bad people are the ones who are incapable of love and who are English. They are predators on the poor, and to Dorries the bad thing about being poor is vulnerability. It’s all perfectly simple. Boris Johnson was brought down by a secretive cabal called the Movement, impelled by the powerful figures Dr No, the Wolf, the Dark Lord and Michael Gove. Dominic Cummings outed himself on Friday as someone who was in the firing line, tweeting an approach for comment from the Daily Mail, which is serialising the book. You might know her as the former culture secretary who loves nothing more than a confrontational broadcast interview and isn't much a fan of the BBC.

Boris Johnson’s cabinet reshuffle was dramatic, with ministerial bloodshed and unexpected promotions. Rising from the dust was a surprise victor: Nadine Dorries is now culture secretary. Dorries has written about Irish people living in Liverpool after the Second World War, nurses working in a Liverpool hospital... after the Second World War, and even one about the 19th-century Irish famine. Dorries names the key members of the movement as long-serving cabinet member Michael Gove, former adviser Dominic Cummings, and Dougie Smith, a seasoned insider and husband of Johnson’s former policy chief Munira Mirza. I claim no Parliamentary expenses and use my outside earnings from writing to subsidise my public role as an MP," Dorries has said. "I discovered writing very late and as a result I would encourage anyone, even people who claim not to be creative, to try and find a creative hobby. You never know where it may lead. For me, it led to a deep contentment and happiness that has helped me to fulfil so many other roles in my life and, without doubt, I am a better MP as a result of the enjoyment I derive from writing in my spare time." The author also takes aim at former chancellor Sajid Javid, the first to resign from the cabinet culminating in Johnson being toppled as PM. “Javid styled himself as ‘The Saj’, only God knows why.On the positive side: the book's cover is really sweet. Also, Ms. Dorries' writing style is easy and non-pretentious, though mostly narrative, with minimal dialogue. The story grabbed me immediately, and I couldn't put the book down... He might have been about to have sex for the first time in almost two years, he might have been angry and have lost all reason, but he wasn’t going to spill the Guinness.” It could be the naming of characters after Bond villains – the mysterious unelected Conservative fixer about whom she has collected so many spectacularly libellous-sounding stories that he cannot be named is dubbed “Dr No”. Or even the way Dorries, a woman far sharper than critics suggest, casts herself for narrative purposes as a political ingenue, roaming Westminster asking impossibly wide-eyed questions as she tries to establish who killed Boris Johnson’s career. Eventually, our amateur sleuth discovers it’s … Rebekah Vardy’s account! Just kidding: apparently it’s a sinister cabal called “the movement” comprising Cummings, Michael Gove, spin doctor turned BBC executive Robbie Gibb and various lesser-known apparatchiks who have “set out to control the destiny of the Conservative party” for 25 years. And that’s where the story falls apart. Because of my own family heritage, I enjoy and seek out books set in working-class Liverpool. That is how I discovered The Four Streets. I have not read any other of Nadine Dorries' works, and I had no idea what to expect with this one.

Haslam meant to show that the patient who discovered this conspiratorial plot was mad. Nadine Dorries means to show that Boris Johnson was deposed by plotters who had raised up and brought down his predecessors. You have no mandate from the people, and the government is adrift. You have squandered the goodwill of the nation, for what?” Boris told Dorries: “We should have moved on from him much, much earlier… We needed a strong team and Vote Leave had been a winning team. It was always a bit odd though how Lee Cain and many of the people working in No. 10 always referred to Cummings as ‘the Dark Lord’. I could never get my head around that one. Quite odd. Dorries says another member of the movement is “a very frightening individual I have codenamed Dr No”.This type of book is usually my genre of choice – I am a child of the 1950’s and raised in a Roman Catholic household. So let us be clear that Nads has scrupulously substantiated her claims by interviewing key “sources”. It is unfortunate that so many of them are anonymous, but that is an inevitable feature of dealing with a conspiracy as sinister as this one. One of these sources she codenames “Moneypenny”. Another is disguised as “M”. You may sense a theme here. Two others she calls “Bambi and Thumper”. Connoisseurs of the adversaries of James Bond, to whom Boris Johnson does indeed bear a striking resemblance, will know Bambi and Thumper as henchpersons of Spectre, an organisation that Ernst Stavro Blofeld made almost as scary as The Movement.

Dorries’ source said: “An MP gave a young female a date rape drug; the next thing she knew was she woke in a country hotel the following morning. He wanted her out of the room because, he told her, he had visitors coming for breakfast.” The first problem is the time frame, it's not clear how long of a time period this book is supposed to cover. There is a 2 year time period from the point where we are introduced to Alice's character and when her role in the story really starts. But then that's followed by a mention of the child being in nappies to jumping to mentions of school. There is no clear indication of the differences in ages between Kitty and Nellie, but it's mentioned near the end that Kitty is 14 and they appear to both be caring for the other kids. There are no mentions of any big events like birthdays or Christmas to help explain. Another source said: “It was later discovered that someone in the party secretly sent out regular cheques to the Priory Clinic to pay for the treatment of one of this man’s later victims, and still nobody spoke out … If action had been taken when that first rape was reported, those other women would have been saved from their life trauma.”Reviewer Sarah Ditum tore into it for trying to be a ham-Irish Trainspotting, written with lines like ” Jaysus, would yer so believe it not?” and, “That’ll be grand for the boxty bread.” Dorries claims Rishi resigned a day earlier than his actual resignation statement, and coordinated with Sajid Javid. “Rishi had already vacated his position as Chancellor the day before; he just hadn’t told anyone yet other than his own confidants,” she wrote.