Early Life
Dorries was born Nadine Vanessa Bargery in Liverpool, England, the daughter of a bus driver who died aged 42. She was raised in Anfield, Liverpool, and educated at Rose Heath Primary School, and Halewood Grange Comprehensive School (while Alan Bleasdale taught there) before her family moved to Runcorn. Dorries grew up on a council estate, and her parents took advantage of the "Right to Buy" scheme. She left the Merseyside area after she married mining engineer Paul Dorries.
Dorries is a keen supporter of Liverpool Football Club. She has said that her great-grandfather, George Bargery, was one of the founders of Everton Football Club, and either the club's first goalkeeper, or that he played in goal for the club in its first Football League game, a home game against Accrington. However, his name does not appear on the teamsheets for the club's first game as Everton FC or its first league game.
Dorries entered nursing in 1975 as a trainee at Warrington General Hospital. From 1978 to 1981, she practised as a nurse in both Warrington and Liverpool according to a 2009 report, but in Liverpool and London according to her CV when she was a candidate in 2001.
In 1982, she became a medical representative to Ethicla Ltd for a year, before spending a year in Zambia (1983–84) as the head of a community school, where her husband ran a copper mine.
In 1987 Dorries founded Company Kids Ltd providing child day-care services for working parents. The company was sold in 1998 to BUPA, at which she served as a director of the health provider for a year.
As Nadine Bargery, reportedly taking ten years off her age, she was selected as the Prospective parliamentary candidate (PPC) for Hazel Grove in Spring 2000. Her candidacy split the constituency party, and she was briefly deselected in August before being centrally imposed. Contesting the seat at the 2001 general election, she was unsuccessful in her attempt to succeed the Liberal Democrat candidate Andrew Stunell, who retained the seat by 8,435 votes. Dorries worked for three years as a special adviser to Oliver Letwin, then Shadow Chancellor, including managing his relations with the media.
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