Dorries' bid to block mental health inquiry

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Dorries caused more mental health deaths by blocking statutory inquiry, hearing told

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Melanie Leahy campaigned for years for a public inquiry into the death of her son, Matthew , and hundreds of other people failed by mental health care in Essex .

She said she had been “shaken to the core” to discover Nadine Dorries had sent WhatsApp messages in 2020 describing how she was “picking off” families as part of an attempt to block their calls for a full public inquiry.

Dorries was a health minister in the last government when she was a minister.

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