Boris Johnson is battling to save his premiership after a bruising PMQs saw fresh questions over Number 10's lockdown parties and a Tory defection to the Labour benches.
Red Wall MP Christian Wakeford said the country needed a Government that “upholds the highest standards of integrity and probity”, telling Mr Johnson that “both you and the Conservative Party as a whole have shown themselves incapable of offering the leadership and Government this country deserves”.
His move was announced just minutes before PMQs, with the timing calculated to cause maximum damage to Mr Johnson.