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Matthew Goodwin, Kent University Politics Professor, also caused his audience to laugh when he compared Theresa May to a “body being dragged along” like a character in a Die Hard film.
He said: “We may be beginning to see a stronger eurosceptic turn within the Cabinet. We have seen Jacob Rees-Mogg and the ERG group which is 60 strong beginning to mobilise very vocally
around the argument that there cannot be any form of customs union that would jeopardise what Brexit is about.
“I describe Theresa May like those Die Hard films where at one point Bruce Willis would grab somebody who had already been shot and hold that person up as a human shield.
“Opening with the bad political capital from Brexit and inevitably she will go but the question is who will replace her?
“That will almost certainly be a leaver. The Conservative Parliamentary party is now very pro-leave and that means that Jacob Rees-Mogg has a very real chance.
“The two real candidates on the Conservative Party membership surveys are Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg.
The Tory MP, interviewed by BBC Northern Ireland’s The View, told the programme that he has no need to come to the border region to understand how Brexit will affect the people who live
there.
He said: ”The issue is one about do you need physical infrastructure in relation to what is going to happen and the answer is no you don’t.
"My going and wandering across a few roads isn't going to tell me anything about that further."
Theresa May has divided her warring Cabinet ministers into two groups to examine the rival options for Britain's future customs relationship with the EU.
The Prime Minister has set up the working groups after a meeting of the Brexit "war cabinet" failed to agree on a way forward at a crunch meeting last week, sources have confirmed.
One will consider the Brexiteers' favoured "maximum facilitation" - or "max fac" - solution, based on the use of technology to minimise the need for customs checks once the UK is outside the
EU.
The other will look at the "customs partnership" - thought to be the Prime Minister's preferred option and supported by ministers who backed Remain - which would see Britain continue to
collect tariffs on behalf of the EU.
The "max fac" group will comprise Business Secretary Greg Clark and Northern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley - who were both pro-Remain - and the pro-Leave Brexit Secretary David Davis.
In contrast, the customs partnership will be examined by two Brexiteers - International Trade Secretary Liam Fox and Environment Secretary Michael Gove - and a lone Remainer, Cabinet Office
Minister David Lidington.
The novel approach was said to have been agreed at meetings in No 10 on Thursday between Mrs May and ministers from the two sides.
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