Boris Johnson issued an eleventh-hour appeal to Tory MPs to back him in a crunch vote on his leadership on Monday night.
The Prime Minister wrote to Conservative parliamentarians as he battled to stay in No10 after at least 54 demanded a vote on his leadership. He called for the backing of MPs so he could “draw a line” under the partygate scandal which has rocked the Government and take forward the Conservatives as “one united party”.
