In her lengthy resignation letter to Rishi Sunak, Nadine Dorries concludes by noting that ‘history will not judge you kindly’.
This is a clear and perhaps deliberate misreading of Karl Marx.
He concluded a speech to the Chartist People’s Paper anniversary meeting in April 1856 with the words
History is the judge- its executioner, the proletarian
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1856/04/14.htm
Dorries may however wish to reflect on an uncharacteristically short two hour speech that Fidel Castro made ‘history will absolve me’
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