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Nadine Dorries lashed out at Iain Duncan Smith tonight for claiming to have resigned on a point of principle, just days after begging her to vote for cuts to disability benefits.

The outspoken backbencher took to Twitter just minutes after the former welfare-slasher sensationally quit from his role as Work and Pensions Secretary.

She wrote: "Stunned at IDS resignation letter. I was about to vote against ESA cuts when he sought me out - he personally and angrily begged me not to.

"Promised me he was introducing a white paper which guaranteed enhanced and more easily accessible benefits for the seriously disabled.

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"Told me he was angry I was rebelling because it was his bill and reflected on him and now he resigns bcse disability cuts a step too far.

"Said the paper would include automatic enhanced benefit qualification for a long list of disabilities including AIDS, MS, RA, MND etc.

"I am angry that he made me vote for something I did not want to vote for, bribing me with a promise and now HE resigns."

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Ms Dorries voted in favour of cuts to Employment Support Allowance, which will see half a million sick and disabled people lose £30 a week.

The former Tory leader dramatically resigned as Work and Pensions Secretary - and launched a stinging attack on the Chancellor’s ‘sugar and spite’ Budget .

Read more:Iain Duncan Smith sensationally resigns over George Osborne's cruel disability cuts

IDS, who has overseen some of the most brutal cuts to welfare in a generation since 2010, said the £4.4billion cut to Personal Independence Payments (PIPs) was a step too far.

He contrasted the decision to strip 370,000 disabled people of £3,500-a-year with the huge tax cuts handed out to the rich.

Read more:Mirror readers' anger at Iain Duncan Smith over cuts

“The latest changes to benefits to the disabled - and the context in which they’ve been made - are a compromise too far,” Mr Duncan Smith wrote in his resignation letter to the Prime Minister.

“They are not defensible within a Budget that benefits higher-earning taxpayers.”