Nadine Dorries has spent 25 years working at the heart of Westminster, 18 as an MP, during which she served as a minister of state in the Department of Health during Covid and then as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. She grew up in a working-class family in Liverpool and attended school in a remote village in the west of Ireland. She trained as a nurse before embarking on a successful career in which she established and sold her own business. She has three daughters.