Last week, Jeremy Corbyn proposed that MPs join him in a vote of no confidence so that he could become a caretaker Prime Minister, call a snap election and campaign for another referendum.
On Saturday Sir Oliver, who has represented the constituency of West Dorset since 1997, told BBC’s Today programme that he “wouldn’t be able to support” such a move.
In 2004, Sir Oliver made headlines after Ian McCartney, then the Chairman of the Labour party, referred to the Jewish MP as a “21st century Fagin”, a description condemned by senior Jewish leaders.
Mr McCartney later described it as "absolute nonsense" to say his comment was racist, saying he had “spent all my life campaigning against racism and antisemitism.”
In 2013 Sir Oliver was in the news again after it was found that one of his members of staff had edited his Wikipedia page to remove the description of his religion as “Judaism”.
His office said that the reference to his religion had been changed because the politician was an atheist. References to his Jewish background remained.
