The list of Tory MPs publicly demanding Boris Johnson to quit over the damning findings of Sue Gray’s Partygate report has now grown to 21.
Conservative MP John Baron became the latest Tory to withdraw his support from the prime minister, saying the report’s findings “paint a shameful pattern of misbehaviour during the pandemic as the rest of us kept to the Covid regulations”.
Backbencher David Simmonds also called for the prime minister to step down, declaring that Mr Johnson no longer has the confidence of the public.
It comes as the chair of parliament’s privileges committee has said it is “absolutely certain” that Boris Johnson will be forced to resign if the cross-party panel finds he has misled the Commons.
The prime minister issued a televised apology over the scandal in an address to the nation after the report attacked “a serious failure” to abide by the “standards expected of the entire British population.”
