Former Special Adviser at the Home Office Claire Pearsall has blasted MPs who want to replace Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister.
It comes afterTory MP Simon Clarke called for his party to replace the current leader or be "massacred" in the general election. The ex-Cabinet minister said the Conservatives had lost "key voters" by failing to be bold on immigration.
His letter has been criticised by several people in his party including former Home Secretary Dame Priti Patel and David Davis.
Former Special Adviser at the Home Office Claire Pearsall agreed that replacing Sunak would be "utterly bonkers".
Claire Pearsall said it would be 'utterly bonkers' to replace Sunak as PM
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Speaking on GB News Breakfast she said: " I think it would be utterly bonkers to try and get rid of one Prime Minister because you don't like them and put in somebody else and it almost seems like anybody else at the moment.
"It doesn't help that the party is going around putting up preferred candidates. It depends on which wing of the party you look at as to which candidate that is, and it just makes the Conservative Party look weak and divided.
"The country is fed up with that. I think that is quite evident from every single poll coming out, especially the GB News poll where 51% of people say that they would prefer none of the above. I think that's quite telling.
"It's just that it seems very tired. It seems like there are no ideas, but Rishi Sunak will indeed lead us into the general election. What happens after that is going to be a matter for the party.
Rishi Sunak is the current Prime Minister
PA"It depends on how many seats we retain and it depends on who is there and who is willing to lead the opposition, which I have worked in opposition.
"It is a very long slog. It is very hard and when you've been in power for 14 years, the opposition is going to feel very different and quite sad."
She added that Parliament should take a look at the "backbenchers because "they will have different ideas."
She explained: "What is evident is whatever the party is putting forward, whatever the government is proposing, isn't cutting through with the electorate.
A GB News people poll saw that Labour was in the lead for the next general election
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"So it's not a bad thing to have somebody new, somebody that no one's ever heard of. And I'm sure that we will all go looking for those people saying, well, who are they?
"But they will be the next person. We saw that with the likes of Margaret Thatcher. And, in Tony Blair's time, he sort of came through and everyone went Who is this man? And then he became a leader very successfully for three terms."
It comes after GB News ran a poll with the general public and only 20 per cent of people said that they would vote for the Conservative party.
45 per cent said that they would vote for Labour and 12 per cent opted for Reform.
