PM ‘not backing Dorries’

David Cameron will not support back bench efforts to strip abortion providers of their role in counselling women considering a termination.

The Prime Minister is said to be “personally sympathetic” to calls by Conservative MP Nadine Dorries for more advice for women in that position. But he opposes her attempt to prevent organisations like Marie Stopes and the British Pregnancy Advisory Service offering support.

Ms Dorries, backed by Labour MP Frank Field, is hoping to secure a Commons vote on the issue next week when MPs consider the Health and Social Care Bill.