A North East Conservative MP has hit out at Boris Johnson after colleagues voted to back the privileges report into his conduct by an overwhelming margin.
Hexham MP Guy Opperman was the only Tory MP from the region to back the report of the privileges committee into Mr Johnson and Partygate, which found the former Prime Minister had repeatedly misled parliament about lockdown parties at Downing Street.
Just six Tory MPs backed Mr Johnson and voted against the report, while 118 voted for it and the majority- 225 - followed current PM Rishi Sunak's choice to avoid the House of Commons and had no vote recorded.
