“Football for men. Gossip for women. Religion for all.” This is the Irish-Catholic world that Nadine Dorries describes in her debut novel, published this week. The Conservative MP, who is proudly working-class and once described David Cameron and George Osborne as “two arrogant posh boys”, tells the story of life within the ­community in Liverpool where she grew up on a council estate in the 1950s and 1960s. In The Four Streets, the Church features prominently, with social life revolving around funerals and weddings, a church called St Mary’s, its priest Fr James, and Mass.  Catholicism is ingrained in the characters, such as when “the hangover from the Guinness blended with the Catholic guilt and a misplaced sense of duty”.But for all th