2016-05-30theguardian.com

Bridgen told the BBC's 5 Live that Cameron had been making "outrageous" claims in his bid to persuade voters to back remain and that, as a consequence, he had effectively lost his parliamentary majority.

"The party is fairly fractured, straight down the middle and I don't know which character could possibly pull it back together going forward for an effective government. I honestly think we probably need to go for a general election before Christmas and get a new mandate from the people," he said.

Bridgen said at least 50 Tory MPs -- the number needed to call a confidence vote -- felt the same way about Cameron and that a vote on the prime minister's future was "probably highly likely" after the referendum.



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