The MP for Stoke on Trent North said the party would have ‘less than 100 MPs’ if they changed leader
Conservative MP Jonathan Gullis has hit out at colleagues who have been briefing against the Prime Minister, describing them as ‘idiots’ and ‘morons’.
The MP for Stoke on Trent North said the party would have ‘less than 100 MPs’ if they changed leader for a fourth time in two years.
Speaking on GB News, Jonathan Gullis said: "The reality is that people can try and convince themselves that things won't get worse. It will. The Conservative Party, if it changes leader for the fourth time within two years, the British public will go, ‘What on earth is going on with you? You are clowns,’ and we will be booted out of office, not just politely, to an extent that we will have less than 100 MPs.
“The Conservative Party needs to rally behind the Prime Minister. He has my full support. He's a good chap, he's working damned hard to try and deliver and I trust him with my children's future more than I do with Sir Keir Starmer.
“I like Tom [Tugendhat], I like all my colleagues, apart from the idiots who say some of the things like that.
“I've hardly ever been referred to as a centrist in my time in Parliament so as a member of the right, as it's described in the media, I’m not in these rooms, I've not heard these chats and it's for the birds.
“Tom is a great colleague, someone I really like, as is Penny Mordaunt as are many other people. But we are going to get behind, and we are getting behind, Rishi Sunak.
“A few agitators behind the scenes simply don't care about this party, which I've been a member of since the age of 18 years old. I've been a council candidate. I've been a councillor. I've been an MP candidate and an MP. I've been an association officer.
“I have lived through thick and thin with this party. I've swallowed a lot of rubbish at times, things I’m not necessarily liking. There are certain things we're doing in government that I'm not always totally proud of.
“But the Conservative Party is a vehicle to deliver centre right government that I firmly believe is needed and it will be needed for this country's future.
“And those clowns opposite in the Labour Party; there's no Blunkett, there's no Blair, there's no Brown, there's no Mowlam. Those people who I disagreed with, I still respected them as political giants.
“When I look at Yvette Cooper, David Lammy, Wes Streeting - give me strength. Angela Rayner: God helped this country of those lot are in charge.”
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