A spat is developing between former prime minister Tony Abbott and Senator Cory Bernardi over the future of the Liberal Party.

• Tony Abbott urges conservative MPs to "fix" Liberal Party
• Cory Bernardi says that the "only person talking up division" is Mr Abbott
• Mr Abbott also criticises pension changes

Mr Abbott has urged conservative MPs to "stay in and fight" if they want to progress their movement, during an interview on Sydney radio station 2GB.

Senator Bernardi has previously warned he may start a new party for disenchanted conservative voters.

After the radio interview, Senator Bernardi fired back.

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Cory Bernardi has accused Tony Abbott of acting out of self-interest after the former prime minister urged “rebellious” conservative colleagues not to leave the Liberal party.

The former prime minister wrote in the Australian on Friday that Coalition MPs unhappy with the government’s direction should “stay and fight” in the party, saying it was better to “fix it, not to leave it”.

He said it would be a “catastrophic mistake” for MPs to abandon the party and so deliver the opposition “at least two terms” in government.

Abbott’s comments come after the chief Nationals whip, George Christensen, issued a threat last week to leave the Coalition “tent” if the Turnbull government was not more loyal to its voters, amid growing concern that Liberal senator Bernardi is preparing to split as well.

“We don’t owe the party slavish obedience but we certainly owe it respect and loyalty,” Abbott wrote. “If we think the party is headed in the wrong direction or is making a big mistake, our duty is to try to fix it, not to leave it.

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Abbott is still an annoying character. He and Bernardi are both idiots who have no clue about life beyond their prejudiced religious KONservative turret based on silly old tales and the rejection of sciences. They both are complete ignoramuses with the gift of the gab. Idiots... and dangerous at that.