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Finally, with former culture minister Nadine Dorries, we turn to Justin Welby’s resignation as Archbishop of Canterbury following a report revealing the Church of England covered up the sexual abuse of a lawyer.

Ms Dorries said she was abused at the hands of a priest as a child, but came to accept it in her 50s, and has spoken more fully in the past few days.

Bishops ‘walled off’ abuse allegations

he says Policy Center with Sophy Ridge He described how he was “so angry at the recent news of the abuse of young boys” that “the church is still covering it up.”

So fictionalizing her own abuse in her books was a “purging process,” and when a journalist realized she was writing about her actual experience, she had to confront it completely; so much so that he said he had summoned three bishops to the House of Lords. The person who “promised” they would look into the broader allegations but “stepped forward” and never responded.

“It ruins your life. It literally ruins your life,” Ms. Dorries says of her experience.

“And I think the biggest sadness for me,” she adds, “is that I never talked about it with my husband. Never.

“And now he’s gone and I can’t discuss it with him. I think that’s the biggest sadness for me.”

‘It’s nothing to be ashamed of’

Ms Dorries’ husband Paul died in June 2019 following a battle with bowel cancer.

He says that although his daughters were aware of this, he did not share the abuse he experienced with them.

Following revelations about the abuse of young boys in the Church of England, he says his youngest daughter encouraged him to write and talk more about what had happened to him.

“I said, ‘I can’t do it, I don’t like doing it.’ And he said, ‘It’s nothing to be ashamed of.'”