Earlier this week Phillip Hammond declared leaving the EU without a deal would be a disaster for the UK and a betrayal of the referendum result, claiming he would want to stop that happening. Mr Duncan Smith, a former leader on the Conservative Party, claimed it was “utter nonsense”. Writing in the Daily Telegraph he said: “The attempt by Mr Hammond and others to re-interpret the referendum result is patronising and deliberately misleading.

“The only thing we know the majority of people didn’t vote for was to remain in the EU.”

It appeared this week opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn was trying to rally troops, which included Conservative MPs, to support him in a vote of no confidence in Boris Johnson.

Mr Duncan Smith said: “The thought that anyone would listen to this man, who stood on a manifesto in 2017 to deliver on the vote to leave the EU while opposed to a second referendum, but who now declares he is in favour of a second referendum, is ludicrous.

“I was astounded when I heard that Conservatives might go along with this Marxist who presides over a party mired in charges of anti-Semitism and who would break up the Union.”

The former work and pensions secretary claimed Mr Corbyn said he was against Theresa May’s Brexit deal but at the same time was also against a no deal.

He went on to suggest “the greatest danger we face” is a Jeremy Corbyn leadership.

Mr Duncan Smith added: “So desperate is he to grab hold of the levers of power that he would agree to anything.

“Yet it appears that some of my Conservative colleagues are quite prepared to do business with Mr Corbyn in their desire to block Brexit.”

He claimed the unreadiness of the UK to leave the EU has made the country the “great pushover in the history of trade negotiations”.

This followed after Phillip Hammond and a group on Conservative MPs sent a letter to Mr Johnson claiming his “Red Lines” would stop any chances of reaching an agreement with the EU.

Earlier this week the Prime Minister accused anti-Brexit MPs of ‘collaborating” with EU officials to try and stop Brexit.

Mr Duncan smith said: “The message to those like Mr Hammond who want to block Brexit and to those who would do deals with Mr Corbyn to block Brexit is this: leaving with no deal isn’t a betrayal of the British people, but trying to stop it is.”

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