Swindon’s Conservative MPs do not agree with suggestions from within their own party that their should be a general election.

Former cabinet minister and Boris Johnson loyalist Nadine Dorries tweeted yetersday that the country should go to the polls to legitimise Liz Truss’s government.

As the Conservative party gathered for its conference in Birmingham at the start of the week, Ms Dorries, who was the secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport under Mr Johnson said that as so much of the work of her predecessor was being undone a new mandate was needed.

She tweeted a response to a tweet from Lizzy Buchan, a political journalist which said: “Tory 2019 manifesto co-author Rachel Wolf says Liz Truss partly won the leadership race due to perceived loyalty to Boris Johnson - but this Government has now junked everything he stood for. She makes the point that this Govt has neither a democratic or Parliamentary mandate.”

Ms Dorries expressed frustration that three of her flagship policies would not be pursued now: “Widespread dismay at the fact that three years of work has effectively been put on hold. No one asked for this. C4 sale, online safety, BBC licence fee review - all signed off by cabinet all ready to go, all stopped.

“If Liz wants a whole new mandate, she must take to the country.”

But her colleagues from Swindon seem not to agree.

South Swindon’s Sir Robert Buckland, at times a colleague of Ms Dorries in the cabinet, has not responded to an invitation to comment on the suggestion – but as a serving cabinet member - he is secretary of state for Wales – he is expected to agree the collective line of the government or resign his post.

He told the News Agents podcast that critics of the PM like Michael Gove and Julian Smith should “keep their own counsel, give her [Truss] the space to govern and respect the mandate that she's got. Sometimes it's better to be quiet".

North Swindon MP Justin Tomlinson was also not in favour. He said: “While I understand Nadine feels strongly about areas of work she has previously led, it is understandable that a new team would wish to review what is and isn't working.

“A landslide Conservative majority was elected for a five-year term and the public rightly expect us to be getting on with the job.”

The latest the next general election can be held is January 2025.