The number of Tory MPs calling for Boris Johnson to quit over Partygate continues to grow.
Currently there are 24 who have publically demanded his removal, following the release of the Sue Gray report into Covid rule-breaking this week.
It comes as the prime minister has been accused of watering down the rules on ministerial behaviour in a bid to “save his own skin”.
A new government policy statement says ministers found to have breached the code of conduct will no longer be automatically expected to resign or face the sack.
The chair of the House of Commons standards committee Chris Bryant criticised the move, claiming it took the country into “banana republic territory”.
Veteran Tory MP Sir Bob Neill is among those calling for Mr Johnson to go, saying that as those the “set the rules”, politicians have a “particular responsibility to stick to them ourselves.”
And he was joined most recently by Anne Marie Morris, MP for Newton Abbot, who said the Partygate events were “frankly insulting”.
