MPs voted by 354 to seven to accept a report finding Boris Johnson deliberately misled the House of Commons over Partygate.
The vote means Mr Johnson, ousted as Prime Minister by his own party less than a year ago, will not be allowed a pass to visit the parliamentary estate and would have been banned for 90 days from sitting as an MP had he not resigned earlier this month.
On Monday evening Labour forced the vote on the Privileges Committee motion, with the Opposition providing tellers for both the ayes and noes.
The MPs who backed him included six Conservatives - Bill Cash, Nick Fletcher, Adam Holloway, Karl McCartney, Joy Morrissey and Heather Wheeler.
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Their names were on the division list released immediately after the vote which contained six names in the noes rather than the seven announced in the chamber.
There have been ongoing issues with names being recorded on the division lists, with other votes seeing the Commons authorities issuing updates later on.
The division list showed 118 Conservative MPs voted in favour of the Privileges Committee report while no vote was recorded for 225 MPs.
The ayes list released immediately after the vote contained 352 names rather than the 354 announced in the chamber, but again this could be updated later by the Commons authorities.
Mr Johnson is said to have told his allies, who have criticised both the committee and the report, to abstain from voting entirely.
The Conservative Party allowed a free vote, with no whipping, and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak avoided the debate and vote entirely.
That led to accusations he was “running scared” for refusing to say whether he would take part in any potential vote.
No 10 said the Prime Minister’s schedule on Monday “doesn’t include attending Parliament” and that he had commitments he “can’t move”.
But the debate and subsequent vote - which pitched former Prime Ministers against former cabinet ministers - laid bare the split within the Conservatives over Boris Johnson’s legacy.
One of his predecessors Theresa May urged MPs to back the report and said supporting the Privileges Committee’s conclusions would be “a small but important step in restoring people’s trust” in Parliament.
In a veiled swipe at Mr Sunak’s absence from the chamber, Mrs May urged her party to “show that we are prepared to act when one of our own, however senior, is found wanting”.
Commons leader Penny Mordaunt said she would vote to support the report in her role “as the member for Portsmouth North”.
She said: “But all members need to make up their own minds and others should leave them alone to do so.”
Mr Johnson and his supporters had sought to discredit the committee’s inquiry, including by accusing its chairwoman, veteran Labour MP Harriet Harman, of holding “prejudicial views”.
But during the debate, Ms Harman said the Government gave her assurances that she would not be seen as biased in her judgment of Mr Johnson.
After Tory former minister Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg highlighted her tweets criticising the ex-prime minister, Ms Harman said she told the Government she was “more than happy to step aside”.
“I was assured that I should continue the work that the House had mandated with the appointment that the House had put me into and so I did just that,” she added.
Rees-Mogg said it was legitimate to challenge the findings of the Privileges Committee, and dismissed removing Boris Johnson’s parliamentary pass as “ridiculous”.
Addressing the 90-day suspension from the Commons, said: “A vindictive sanction, it seems to me, which they can’t implement because Mr Johnson has left Parliament. So they go from the vindictive to the ridiculous with not allowing him a parliamentary pass.”
It came as the Metropolitan Police confirmed they were reviewing new material in relation to a Christmas party held at Conservative Campaign Headquarters during the height of the pandemic in December 2020.
Tory activists were invited to what was described as a “jingle and mingle” party, according to the BBC, despite members of the public being banned from seeing each other under Covid regulations in place at the time.
A video of the event published by the Sunday Mirror, which appeared to show Tory staff dancing and joking about coronavirus restrictions, is among the new evidence Scotland Yard is considering.
Both former London mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey and Tory aide Ben Mallet, who were handed a peerage and an OBE respectively in Mr Johnson’s resignation honours, attended the gathering.
