Nadine Dorries was tonight accused of being “offensive” to voters by failing to declare any cash she pocketed from her second job as a TV presenter.
The ex-Tory MP didn’t declare a single penny in earnings from nearly a year of presenting a high profile TV show - while largely absent from her day job as an MP.
Meanwhile, research by the Lib Dems revealed Ms Dorries didn’t mention her Mid-Bedfordshire constituency once in any of her Commons speeches since the last election in 2019.
She continued to employ her daughter on a taxpayer-funded salary of up to £49,000, despite her living two hours travel from both Ms Dorries constituency and from Parliament.
And in more than a year of absence from Parliament, research shows Ms Dorries sent a member of staff on the train several times a month to pick up her post in Westminster - at a cost of almost £30 a time.
Ms Dorries, who finally quit the Commons last week, kicked off her broadcasting career last October, filling in for Piers Morgan while he was on holiday from his show on Talk TV.
She was later handed her own Friday night show on the channel.
But despite several MPs properly declaring thousands of pounds worth of fees after appearing as guests on the channel to Commons authorities - she never registered any earnings from the potentially lucrative job.
MPs are required to publicly declare most outside earnings - including fees from TV appearances.
Fellow Tory Jake Berry declared a fee of £600 for filling in for Jeremy Kyle on one occasion on the same channel - and various fees between £120 and £365 for appearing as a guest on several programmes.
Ms Dorries mentioned her constituency twice in her fiery resignation letter last week - which is twice more than she did in Parliament since the last election.
Liberal Democrat Deputy Leader Daisy Cooper MP said: "It tells you everything you need to know that Nadine Dorries failed to mention her constituency of Mid Bedfordshire even once in Parliament since the 2019 general election.
"Families struggling to see a GP or pay spiralling mortgage repayments have been left with no-one to fight their corner in Parliament.
“It shows the Conservative Party has failed the people of Mid Bedfordshire and is taking them for granted.”
Ms Dorries resignation - six weeks after it was promised - sparked a by-election in Mid-Bedfordshire, with Labour favourites to win.
Labour candidate Alistair Strathern said Ms Dorries former constituents were “outraged” at her behaviour.
He said: “I think, particularly for lots of people who are quite up against it and working two, three jobs - to see someone who's taken zero interest in the job for a while now and then continuing to pick up a pay cheque, I think is understandably really quite offensive.”