Tory culture secretary Nadine Dorries is very worst possible person for the job

dailyrecord.co.uk:

As a writer, as someone who works within “culture” (OK, many of you would quite rightly debate that), I was as dismayed as anyone back in September when Nadine Dorries was appointed Culture Secretary.It seemed like a sick joke, like an exercise in how to pick the very worst possible person for the job just to enrage “liberals” like me.

Which it might well have been. In case you’re unclear, Dorries is a hateful figure. She’s a diehard Boris Johnson fan who wanted to cut abortion time limits and strip abortion providers of a role in counselling women.

She’s an ardent Brexiteer. And that’s the thing about working in the arts and culture – you meet so many people who share those views.