'The party is almost unleadable!' Nadine Dorries hints Boris Johnson WON'T return as she brutally rips apart Rishi Sunak

Speaking on GB News Breakfast, Dorries said: "I couldn't agree with him more, Simon Clark is one of the most decent and principled men in politics today. He is someone who would always put party before self.

"I have heard that there are people that have said that he has leadership ambitions. Simon Clark could not be further from someone who has leadership ambitions.

"I just wanted to set that straight. He has always been aware that his priority was making sure that he held that seat for the Conservative party. I think he would struggle to find anyone in the party who would not say what a principled man he is.

"The other point that I would like to make is that people are criticizing him this morning, they are not backing Rishi Sunak, they feel the same.

"The three main people Priti Patel, David Davis, and Liam Fox , one of them have told me themselves that their preferred option is that the party does lose at the next election because that sometimes does have to happen and they believe that they should be the saviour who resurrects the party."

She added: "If we continue as we are now, we are polling 20 per cent of the vote. We are looking at a Canadian style wipe out where the leader of the party returned three MPs. That is what we are looking at now, the Conservative party wrote its suicide note the day that it removed Boris Johnson.

"I'm afraid that this is the longest death in political history."

However, the former politician did not feel that replacing the leader was the right option.

She explained: "There is no love for Keir Starmer. What you are seeing at the moment with the hugely volatile situation that politics is in is that when the public come out and vote for somebody in the numbers that the public voted for Boris Johnson, when people who have only ever voted Labour their entire lives change and vote for Conservative that is a big deal.

"I served in Cabinet the entire time that Sunak was Chancellor, I watched him block the Rwanda policy until the day that he became Prime Minister. I watched him cancel social care, I watched him argue for higher taxes. I am afraid that politics is not always an honourable game.

​"If you were to ask me honestly what I think of Rishi Sunak as a Prime Minister, I don't think that he gets it. I don't think that he is a politician, I don't think that he understands what motivates people. I don't think that he understands the basic principles of what it is that makes people go out and vote for a particular party.

"What they want for themselves is more responsibility to decide how they s[end their money. They want the tax man to be diving into their pockets less. They want to do up their homes, they want to go on holiday, they want to do up their gardens all of that involves spending that comes back to the treasury."

When asked if Johnson could return she said: "I'm not sure he wants to come back. Just let me tell you a little bit of the news I have. I've heard that Boris's local seat, Henley on Thames, where he was previously the MP.

"They've just conducted their selection of their candidate and they did it in six days, just in case Boris Johnson wanted to go back to that seat and because people's constituency wanted Boris they turned it around in six days, and so was my intelligence on Monday and whether it happened last night or not I'm not sure. I'm not sure Boris wants to, The party is almost unleadable."

Writing on social media, Clarke denied he was "positioning myself or on behalf of another." He explained: "I am speaking out because the stakes for our country and my party are too high to stay silent."

Clarke is now the second former minister publicly calling for Sunak to resign.

Former education minister Dame Andrea Jenkyns submitted a letter of no confidence in the prime minister in November.