Rishi Sunak nervously waits to see if extra Boris Johnson allies will stop as MPs

Rishi Sunak and the Tory excessive command are nervously ready to see if extra Boris Johnson allies stop as MPs – amid fears that the feud is ready to plunge the occasion into civil warfare.

Johnson supporters declare two extra MPs are on “resignation watch” after Nadine Dorries and Nigel Adams joined the previous prime minister in quitting with instant impact and triggering by-elections.

But some authorities loyalists assume assist for the rise up is stalling. Claims by Johnson’s camp that as much as six extra MPs have been poised to stop have did not materialise to date.

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Some of Mr Johnson’s closest allies – led by the newly knighted Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg – have publicly declared they don’t seem to be quitting, regardless of providing vocal assist for the previous PM.

Writing in The Mail on Sunday, Sir Jacob mentioned: “I am not, unlike some of my fellow Boris admirers, resigning my Commons seat. I will fight my North East Somerset seat at the next election and campaign for a Conservative victory nationally.”

He additionally claimed Mr Johnson’s resignation – and his suggestion that he may battle one other seat on the subsequent election – “puts him in pole position to return as Conservative leader if a vacancy should arise”.

In his indignant resignation assertion on Friday night, Mr Johnson mentioned: “It is very sad to be leaving parliament – at least for now.”

Issuing a direct risk to Mr Sunak, Sir Jacob added: “I’d most strongly warn Conservative Party managers towards any try to dam Boris if he seeks the occasion nomination in one other seat.

“Any attempt to do so would shatter our fragile party unity and plunge the Conservatives into civil war.”

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Leading Brexit hardliner Lord Frost, writing in The Sunday Telegraph, additionally predicted a Johnson comeback – declaring: “True, he is leaving parliament, but only, as he himself says, ‘for now’.”

But occasion grandees against a comeback by Mr Johnson – led by former deputy prime minister Lord Heseltine – urged the occasion management to dam a return to the Commons by the previous PM.

“To me it is inconceivable that in these circumstances he could stand as a Conservative member of parliament again,” Lord Heseltine wrote in The Observer.

“It is up to Conservative central office to affirm an official Conservative candidate. No doubt he will now go out into the world and make huge sums of money, writing history as he thinks it was conducted. But it will have little to do with the reality that he has left behind.”

Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour chief, referred to as for a common election following the trio of high-profile resignations from the Commons, claiming Mr Sunak had misplaced management of his authorities.

“Rishi Sunak must finally find a backbone, call an election, and let the public have their say on 13 years of Tory failure,” Sir Keir wrote within the Sunday Mirror.

“This farce must stop. People have had enough.”