- Messages from the group were leaked to The Mail on Sunday last night
- Mid Bedfordshire MP Nadine Dorries was among those who conversed
- She claimed that women voters would take revenge if May is toppled
Tory MPs have clashed over a warning that the party faces ruin if its male MPs bring down Theresa May just as they did Margaret Thatcher.
The exchanges on a private WhatsApp messaging group for Conservative MPs were leaked to The Mail on Sunday last night.
They show how Mid Bedfordshire MP Nadine Dorries warned male Tories that the party would be in ‘the s***… if TM [Theresa May] is ousted by male MPs’.
![Mid Bedfordshire MP Nadine Dorries (pictured) warned male Tories that the party would be in ‘the s***... if TM [Theresa May] is ousted by male MPs’](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/02/03/21/48DB8A0000000578-0-Mid_Bedfordshire_MP_Nadine_Dorries_pictured_warned_male_Tories_t-m-2_1517694386310.jpg)
Mid Bedfordshire MP Nadine Dorries (pictured) warned male Tories that the party would be in ‘the s***… if TM [Theresa May] is ousted by male MPs’
She added that male Tory MPs toppling their first female leader in 1990 may have been ‘inevitable’, but ‘removing two will be viewed as something else entirely’.
Women voters would take revenge, she claimed.
But St Austell and Newquay Tory MP Steve Double claimed it was ‘bonkers’ to argue ‘the only reason we shouldn’t oust the PM is because she’s a woman’.
