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Nadine Doris's Story Is More Complex Than Many Detractors Allow
Nadine Doris's tale is more complex than many of her detractors allow. She was born into terrible poverty, and truly horrendous things happened to her as a child. Had she been able to marry it with her political career, I have often thought Doris could have made light work of huge numbers of privileged professional politicians. But she wasn't. By the end, she was known simply as Johnson's attack dog,. now denied even her bone as a reward. It will be a hard sell for anyone to see what happened to Doris as a political tragedy - just as it was for all those Johnson limited and dragged down to his level in the service of... What? What did he
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