Boris Johnson has been referred to a Commons committee and declared a liar in the House of Commons for misleading MPs over partygate.
In a day of drama Tory MPs abandoned their defence of the Prime Minister and told Johnson "the gig's up", leaving his fate in the balance once again.
Backbench Tories made it clear they would refuse to follow orders to vote against a Labour motion subjecting their leader to scrutiny and shame over his accounts of rule-breaking in Downing Street.
