The Secretary of Culture accuses Sunak of having orchestrated a "coup d'état" against Johnson

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Culture Secretary

, one of Boris Johnson's staunchest allies, has directly accused former Treasury Secretary

of orchestrating a

, amid growing acrimony in the campaign for the election of the new leader of the Conservative Party.

"I am bitterly frustrated that the 'premier' has been eliminated through a vicious coup led in large part by Rishi Sunak," Dorries said in successive interviews on 'Sky News' and on BBC radio.

The Secretary of Culture has recalled how Sunak's resignation (preceded by just fifteen minutes by that of Sajid Javid as Secretary of Health) caused the domino effect that culminated, after three days, with the

after the resignation of more than 50 members of its government team.

Nadine Dorries, who has thrown her support behind Foreign Secretary

in the

, has been Rishi Sunak's most unrelenting critic so far, with her famous Twitter post denouncing his waste of clothing. (530 euros for Prada shoes and 4,185 for a tailored suit).

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Sunak has not personally responded to the accusations, although he has been publicly defended by conservative veteran Roger Gale: "Loyalty is fine, but Johnson has not been ousted for a 'coup'... He was forced to resign after that many of his ministers and deputies, including myself, made it clear to him that they were not prepared to tolerate his casual relationship with the truth".

Johnson himself, who had even remained neutral in the campaign, referred this Thursday to "the relay race" and has assured that he will pass the baton in an "invisible" way, but not before launching an unusual hint at his ex Secretary of the Treasury during a public event in Birmingham: "Now it turns out that lowering gasoline taxes is easier than we thought"... Johnson has thus criticized the

, after having stubbornly opposed the measure while he was in government.

Nadine Dorries has not hidden, meanwhile, her desire to extend Boris Johnson's stay in Downing Street, although she has distanced herself from the campaign promoted by Lord Peter Cruddas (unofficially dubbed "Bring Back Boris") to claim that the 'premier ' Stay at your post.

The initiative has, so far, more than 14,000 signatures.

According to Dorries, Johnson himself has distanced himself from the initiative, and he has confided in him personally this very week: "'If you hear anything from these people, tell them to leave it, that it's not right'... Those were exactly his words".

The contest for the 'tory' leadership continues, then, its course after the scare caused by the fainting of the presenter of 'TallTV', Kate McCann, who fainted live last Tuesday and forced the suspension of the second television debate.

Liz Truss prevailed over Rishi Sunak in the first, before BBC cameras, by 50% to 39% of the preferences, according to a YouGov poll.

Truss

, representative of the "continuity" of the Johnson government, starts as

who must cast their vote at the end of August.

38% consider that the Foreign Secretary "is more in touch with the real problems of the British", compared to 18% who think the same of Sunak.

The name of the next conservative leader will be made public on September 5 and that same day the handover will take place in Downing Street.

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