A one-time ally of Boris Johnson has accused him of “unacceptable failures of leadership” in a fresh blow to his battered authority.
The Prime Minister faces the threat of a no confidence vote as soon as next week amid growing dismay among Tory MPs over his premiership.
Mr Johnson is trying to brazen out the findings of Sue Gray's bombshell Partygate report, which laid bare the extent of lockdown boozing in Downing Street during the pandemic.
