The comments could infuriate MPs on the right of the party who believe Conservatives must do more to win back the growing number of voters now backing Ukip.
Latest polls put Ukip’s support on as much as 11 per cent of vote. Yesterday the party’s leader Nigel Farage boasted of trying to persuade Conservative MPs to defect.
Mr Barker has been asked by Chancellor George Osborne, the Tories’ election coordinator, to put together ideas for the Tories’ manifesto at the election, expected in 2015. (Telegraph.)
