The Tory Brexiteer hit out at Remainer MPs wanting to thwart the Brexit vote, as he warned Britain is now in a situation where it is the “establishment versus the people”. Speaking to Express.co.uk, the MP for Kettering said: “There would still be a battle to fight within the Conservative Party. There are enough of us left, I think, to deliver a proper Brexit.”

Certainly lots of Conservative MPs would be thinking about their futures if we ultimately didn’t deliver Brexit at all

Philip Hollobone

When asked whether he would leave the Tories to join Nigel Farage’s newly-formed Brexit Party, Mr Hollobone insisted the “battle isn’t yet over”.

But he warned: “Certainly lots of Conservative MPs would be thinking about their futures if we ultimately didn’t deliver Brexit at all.”

Mr Hollobone added: “Most Remainers accent true result. In Kettering, 39 percent of people voted to stay. The vast majority of those accept the result – they don’t like it but they accept it and they believe that democracy should be respected and they had expected us to have left by this point.

“There is only a minority of Remainers who actually want to stop Brexit. Sadly, a lot of them in the House of Commons and sadly, a lot of them are MPs who represent Brexit seats and they are not doing what their constituents told them to do.

“So, the problem is in Parliament and ultimately we have got a problem of the establishment versus the people.”

Prime Minister Theresa May appeared “tearful” as she was given a two-week deadline to quit by the 1922 Committee in an explosive meeting.

The committee told her to “do her duty” and quit as it was predicted her fourth attempt at scraping her real through Parliament faces a 100-vote defeat.

An MP told the Daily Mail she was “tearful” and “emotional” at the meeting, and also appeared “frustrated”.

Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee, representing Conservative backbenchers, revealed on Thursday that Mrs May had promised to set the date of her resignation after next month’s crunch Brexit vote as she tries to get her withdrawal agreement through the House of Commons.

He said: “The Prime Minister is determined to secure our departure from the European Union and is devoting her efforts to securing the second reading of the Withdrawal Agreement Bill in the week commencing 3rd June 2019 and the passage of that Bill and the consequent departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union by the Summer.

“We have agreed that she and I will be meeting following the 2nd Reading of the Bill to agree on a timetable for the election of a new leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party.”

But before the meeting had even finished, Tory MP Boris Johnson officially announced he would run for the leadership.

When quizzed over his leadership intentions, Mr Johnson told The British Insurance Brokers’ Association: “Of course I’m going to go for it.”

But Mr Johnson acknowledged there is currently no vacancy in Downing Street.

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