NOT THE WRITE STUFF FROM POWELL

NADINE DORRIES should write a book about the leadership poll entitled The Backstabber And The Snake, Labour MP Lucy Powell told the UK music Summer Party.

After all, Culture Secretary Dorries (pictured) is already a bestselling author so the tome would have plenty of takers.

But the title sounds more appropriate for two of Powell’s shadow cabinet colleagues manoeuvring to replace Sir Keir Starmer in the expectation of Durham Constabulary fining him over Beergate. The penalty would have triggered his resignation. Alas, for the plotters no such fine materialised.