Sir Jacob Rees Mogg said “changing our leader in the way people seem to change their socks cannot be wise” as he issued a warning to any Tory MPs plotting to oust Rishi Sunak.
The former Cabinet minister said that the Tories were now “getting ahead with some Conservative policies” as he urged all of his colleagues to back Rishi Sunak.
He told GB News: “But we also have to show to voters that we are a serious party of government and changing our leader in the way people seem to change their socks cannot be wise, it cannot be sensible, it cannot imbue the nation with that level of confidence that it needs to have.
“And so, although I’ve been a critic of Rishi Sunak over the years, I haven’t always lauded him with praise, I think now is the time for the party to be loyal: To back its leader to recognise an election is close at hand.
“We need to concentrate on that and the manifesto for the British people that we will deliver in the next few months, rather than the vanity, the vainglory, the self-obsession of some politicians who think it’s about them.
“It’s not. It’s about the country and it’s about the King’s government being carried on, as the Duke of Wellington always used to say.”