The Conservative Party is heading for a SPLIT, a top MP has warned after more than half of backbenchers voted no confidence in Theresa May.

Nicky Morgan, a Remain-backer and chair of the Commons Treasury Committee, sounded the alert after 117 MPs revolted against the PM.

Mrs May has faced Brexiteer demands to quit after winning the vote – and Ms Morgan has now claimed they could leave the party.

She told the BBC: "I think there’s an inevitability that some of these people – the hardest Brexiteers – are going to walk.

"There may be some sort of reconfiguration of parties on the right of the UK political spectrum and that may be something we are going to have to accept in order to get a Brexit deal through the House of Commons."

Tories continued their feuding in the wake of the no confidence vote.

A source in the Brexiteer European Research Group vowed: "The campaign of guerrilla warfare will continue".

And ex-Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab called for the Prime Minister to stand down.

Mr Raab said: "Given the likely scale of opposition, it looks very difficult to see how this Prime Minister can lead us forward.”

Tory minister Alistair Burt compared the Tory rebels to ants and said they will never be satisfied.

He tweeted: “They never, ever stop. Votes against them, letters going in late – nothing matters to ERG.

"After the apocalypse, all that will be left will be ants and Tory MPs complaining about Europe and their leader."

And Remain-backing former Chancellor Ken Clarke warned his party had come "very near" to civil war.

He told BBC Radio 5 Live’s Emma Barnett: "It would have been absolutely irresponsible if, in the middle of all this crisis, when we are trying to settle historic issues which matter enormously to our children and grandchildren, the Conservative Party had decided to spend the next five or six weeks having an internal civil war arguing over the leadership."

Wounded Theresa May today jetting to Brussels to salvage her Brexit deal, with urgent talks with Irish premier Leo Varadkar and EU Council President Donald Tusk ahead of a summit with 27 leaders.

She is asking 27 EU leaders for a "legally binding" solution to stop the UK being trapped under EU customs rules.

Allies toasted her 200-117 survival in a no confidence vote last night and the PM reportedly quaffed two glasses of red wine and some crisps.

But furious Brexiteers demanded her head after she only won by promising to quit before the 2022 election.

Jacob Rees-Mogg, the chairman of the European Research Group, said the result was "terrible" for Theresa May and she should resign.

Backbench Brexiteer Peter Bone said: “She said in 2017 she would lead the Conservative Party if she had the support of the parliamentary party.

“Clearly when you’ve got more than a third voting against you don’t.

“So if she honours her word she will decide in the interests of the party and the nation she will go.”

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