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THERESA May’s top team are using the threat of another election to scare Tory MPs into voting for the Brexit deal, Boris Johnson has blasted.

The ex-Foreign Secretary said anyone planning another vote later this year needed to be sent off to Venezuela or Zimbabwe where they would do less damage.

Boris has blasted the idea of another election as a scare tactic

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Yesterday reports swirled around Westminster that officials were considering another snap vote in June – after Mrs May seals off a Brexit deal.

Today Mr Johnson said any plans for an election were “lunacy” and the Tories would struggle to scramble together a manifesto.

He wrote in the Telegraph: “Perhaps there is no plan for an election, perhaps it is just a scare tactic designed to get MPs to vote for the PM’s appalling deal.

“But if someone in Tory HQ genuinely thinks it would be a good idea they should be despatched on secondment to Venezuela or Zimbabwe or somewhere they can do less damage.”

Labour MP David Lammy agreed with his sentiment.

He said:  This story is designed to scare the s**t out of MP colleagues in Leave seats in the hope they will vote for May’s deal.

“Let’s hope they can see through it.”

Perhaps this is just a scare tactic

Boris Johnson

In leaked WhatsApp messages Tory MPs were spooked by the reports of another vote, which were later slapped down by the party chairman, Brandon Lewis.

Conor Burns said in the messages revealed by BuzzFeed: “This sort of thing is very unsettling for colleagues”.

And grandee Nicholas Soames added: “Frankly it’s amateur night – what on earth are they playing at?”

Mr Lewis said that the Tories were “focused on just one set of elections, May 2nd.”

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Sajid Javid said yesterday the public “would never forgive us” for holding yet another election at the current time.

The news came as a new poll showed a huge lead for the Tories of seven per cent.

Before she decided to call 2017’s disastrous snap poll, the Conservatives were also sailing ahead.

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