Dominic Grieve could be at risk from ‘entryism’ in the Conservative Party

Two very different futures for those who remain in the Conservative Party — 72 hours after three centrist MPs walked out — were being planned yesterday at events that were separated by a few miles of the A40.

At the party’s spring forum in Oxford, Theresa May made her second appeal in three days for moderates to stay.

At the precise same moment, in Gerrards Cross, a Tory pressure group was plotting how to get rid of them — with the local MP, Dominic Grieve, first in the crosshairs.

“Since the referendum he has really upset a lot of people,” said John Strafford, a longstanding Tory activist and former chairman of Grieve’s Beaconsfield constituency.

“He stood in the general election saying he respected the referendum