Penny Mordaunt confirms she is going to vote to ban Boris Johnson from Commons

Penny Mordaunt confirmed she is going to vote for the Privileges Committee report into the conduct of Boris Johnson.

The probe by the cross-party group of MPs discovered the previous prime minister lied to Parliament along with his partygate denials.

The committee beneficial that Mr Johnson ought to have confronted a 90-day suspension if he had not stop and be banned from receiving a go to entry Parliament which is normally out there to former MPs.

Asked by shadow Commons chief Thangam Debbonaire about how she would vote, Ms Mordaunt instructed the Commons: “As the member for Portsmouth North I will be voting to support the committee’s report and recommendations.

“But all members must make up their very own minds and others ought to go away them alone to take action.”

Conservative former prime minister Theresa May also said she accepts the findings of the “rigorous” report.

She said: “It just isn’t simple to take a seat in judgment on associates and colleagues… however friendship, working collectively, mustn’t get in the way in which of doing what is true.

“I commend the members of the Privileges Committee for their painstaking work, and for their dignity in the face of slurs on their integrity.

“To all of the members of the committee, this House ought to say thanks in your service.”

Mrs May added: “This committee report issues. This debate issues. And this vote issues. They matter as a result of they strike on the coronary heart of the bond of belief and respect between the general public and Parliament that underpin the workings of this place and of our democracy.”

It comes as Rishi Sunak looks set to duck a potential vote on the investigation on his predecessor, with his official spokesman saying he had afternoon meetings before attending a dinner.

Other senior Tories have also taken themselves away from Westminster amid the Commons debate.

The former prime minister sensationally quit as an MP and labelled the probe a “kangaroo court docket” after being instructed prematurely of its findings.

It just isn’t clear whether or not there’ll in the end be a vote on the conclusions of the report, which may undergo on the nod until there are objections from Mr Johnson’s supporters.

The ex-prime minister was urging his allies to not oppose it, arguing that the sanctions haven’t any sensible impact.