A Conservative MP suspended for using the N-word in a discussion about Brexit is likely to return to the party within three months, The Telegraph can disclose.

Theresa May last night suspended a Anne Marie Morris on Tuesday after she described leaving the European Union without a deal as the “real n----r in the woodpile”. The decision meant that the Conservative party's working majority – which includes the backing from the Democratic Unionist Party - in the House of Commons falls to 12.

Now it has emerged that Mrs Morris, the MP for Newton Abbott, is set to be allowed to return to the party in around three months.

One senior Tory source said that Ms Morris’s punishment would compare with the three-month suspension handed to Labour MP Naz Shah. Another Conservative source said that Ms Morris was likely to be suspended for a “long time”.

Ms Shah was suspended between April 27 and July 5 last year by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn after she made remarks about Israel on Facebook.