Former Tory leader attacks Tories attacking Tories with ‘big mouths, small brains’ jibe Former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith has attacked “silly people in the Conservative party with big mouths and small brains” […]

Former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith has attacked “silly people in the Conservative party with big mouths and small brains” for conspiring to depose Theresa May.

The Conservative planned deal with the Democratic Union Party is yet to be finalised, sparking fears that it will be difficult for the Prime Minister to get the majority needed for the Queens Speech to go through parliament.

Separately, reports suggest that up to a dozen MPs intend to send a letter of no confidence to the backbench 1922 committee, although 48 signatures would be needed to force a leadership contest within the Conservative party.

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‘The reality is we need stability’

But Mr Duncan Smith, who was ousted as Tory leader after a no confidence vote in 2003, has strongly criticised the alleged plot to evict May from Downing Street, telling Sky News’ Sophy Ridge on Sunday:

1922 Committee Conservative MPs who are not ministers, or working for ministers, are represented by the 1922 Committee

“Theresa May has come out of an election, we didn’t do as well as we had obviously hoped for – which is probably a bit of an understatement – but the reality is that we need stability now.

“We don’t need silly people in the Conservative party with big mouths and small brains running around the place trying to tell everybody what they’re going to do.”

"We need stability, we don't need silly people in Tory Party trying to tell people what they're going to do," says Iain Duncan Smith #Ridge pic.twitter.com/HPWxnenzgW — Sophy Ridge on Sunday (@RidgeOnSunday) June 18, 2017

He continued to warn of the possibility of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn taking over as Prime Minister.

The Queen’s Speech The Queen’s Speech is read by the Sovereign in the House of Lords to mark the start of the parliamentary year. It lists the bills the government hopes to pass over the coming year.

The Queen returns to Buckingham Palace after delivering the Speech and the MPs begin debating it in the Commons, ahead of a vote to enshrine it in law the following week.

“I think what [disgruntled MPs] should do now is do what the rest of us want to do, which is try and support the Government because the big threat…you look into the abyss and it grins back at you with a short-cropped grey beard and very Marxist ideology. [it is possible he is referring to Jeremy Corbyn]

“We don’t want to see that govern Britain and therefore we have to get stable behind the Prime Minister and make sure that at the end of it all she has the strength and the focus to go on and govern as her government does.”