Nadine Dorries life as a nurse at Warrington Hospital

Yet Nadine Dorries' working career started right here in Warrington.

Now a Conservative MP for Mid Bedfordshire, she trained in nursing at Warrington Hospital in the 1970s.

Indeed it is believed she was the first nurse to make it to the cabinet when she was made secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport last month.

Ms Dorries trained in Warrington in 1975 and since then has written novels, become an MP and appeared on ITV's hit reality show, I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here.

Warrington Hospital features in one of Nadine's short stories and one of her former colleagues, Helen Winsor, is even one of the characters.

Warrington Hospital

She added: "Run To Him is all based on the old ward two at Warrington General. My nursing experiences and the people I met are constantly a source of inspiration.

"I think it’s important that people who are older write down what happened because it is almost a historical catalogue for those experiences which most people don’t know about today.

"I write about the 60s which is when I was a child but there are people older than me who could write about wartime still.

"I lived in a nurses' home in Bewsey Road and we had maids that came in the morning and they used to tell me stories about the war and bases and the dances they used to go to at Burtonwood.

"Some of the stories they told were hair-raising and they should be written down."

And the outspoken MP has already hit the headlines since she got the culture job.

The first meeting of the new cabinet

The BBC may not exist in a decade’s time, the new Culture Secretary has suggested as she took aim at its "elitist” approach and “lack of impartiality”.

Ms Dorries insisted she did not want a “war” with the broadcaster but suggested it would have to set out how it will change before the next licence fee settlement, which covers the five years from April 2022.

At a Conservative Party conference fringe event earlier this month she admitted “I don’t know” if the broadcaster will even survive in 10 years’ time in the face of competition from new players such as Netflix.

Ms Dorries, who went from a working-class background in Liverpool to become a bestselling author and Cabinet minister, hit out at the lack of opportunities in the arts and sports for children with similar upbringings.