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		</div><p>Britain&#8217;s Health Minister Nadine Dorries has become the first British MP to test positive for the Covid-19 coronavirus.</p>
<p>Despite a 15-year career as the Tory MP for Mid-Bedfordshire, Ms Dorries is arguably best known by some for her appearance on I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here in 2012.</p>
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<p>Ms Dorries was born in 1957 in Liverpool and grew up on a council estate.</p>
<p>She started her working life as a nurse before pursuing a career in business, opening a child day-care business called Company Kids Ltd.</p>
<p>In 1998, Ms Dorries sold her company and joined Bupa, eventually becoming a director.</p>
<p>Before being elected to the British Parliament in 2005, she worked for three years as an adviser to Britain&#8217;s former shadow home secretary and shadow chancellor of the exchequer, Oliver Letwin.</p>
<p>During her time on the backbench, Ms Dorries introduced a number of unsuccessful Private Member’s Bills, including attempts to reduce the time limit for abortions in the UK.</p>
<figure id="attachment_151571" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-151571" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-151571" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/21EE3EC4-16EE-4B2B-98AC-F6F0601492BB.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="338" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-151571" class="wp-caption-text">Ms Dorries said she appeared on I’m a Celebrity in order to highlight political issues</figcaption></figure>
<p>She was also a staunch advocate for teenage girls being taught the benefits of sexual abstinence at school.</p>
<p>Ms Dorries was thrust into the limelight in 2012 when she was suspended from the Conservative Party for taking part in that year’s season of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here without informing the Chief Whip of her appearance.</p>
<p>However she was re-admitted to the party in May 2013.</p>
<p>Ms Dorries has been embroiled in a string of controversies throughout her tenure as an MP.</p>
<p>In 2009, when MPs’ expenses claims were revealed by the Daily Telegraph, she admitted she had got taxpayers to foot the bill for a lost £2,190 deposit on a rented flat.</p>
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<p>And in 2010, she was rebuked by parliamentary standards commissioner John Lyon in October 2010 for misleading her constituents on her blog about how much time she spent in Mid-Bedfordshire, admitting that it was “70% fiction”.</p>
<p>Away from Parliament Ms Dorries is also a published author, with her 2013 novel The Four Streets selling more than 100,000 copies.</p>
<p>On Tuesday, Ms Dorries revealed that she was self-isolating at home after testing positive for Covid-19.</p>
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