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Tory party tensions escalate amid talk of calls for PM to step down

Tory tensions appear to be escalating after two prominent party members suggested that there were calls within their ranks for Prime Minister David Cameron to step aside.

Tory MP Nadine Dorries told Peston on Sunday Mr Cameron could be "toast within days", depending on the referendum vote and said her "letter is already in", along with 50 other MPs, asking for the Prime Minster to stand aside.

Meanwhile Andrew Bridgen told BBC’s 5 Live he thought "we probably need to go for a general election before Christmas and get a new mandate from the people".

It came as senior Vote Leave campaigners Michael Gove and Boris Johnson also called on David Cameron to accept his failure to limit migration as "corrosive of public trust" on Sunday.

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David Cameron 'will be toast' if he loses EU referendum

Conservative MP and Leave campaigner Nadine Dorries has said Prime Minister David Cameron will be "toast within days", depending on the result of the European referendum.

Speaking to Robert Peston on ITV's Peston on Sunday, she said her "letter is already in", along with 50 other MPs, asking for the Prime Minster to stand aside.

She said "David Cameron might just survive if there's a 60/40 majority to Remain" but warns anything less should see the end of his leadership.

"He has lied, profoundly. There are many issues at which David Cameron has told outright lies and the trust, because of that, has gone from both him and George Osborne", Dorries said.

She added: "I always have backed the only politician in Westminster who has a proven track record of achievement, and that's Boris Johnson".

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