The Conservative MP for Weston-super-Mare has resigned as the Prime Minister's anti-corruption tsar ahead of tonight's no confidence vote in Boris Johnson's leadership, and has called for him to resign. John Penrose announced that he would be stepping down as the Anti-Corruption Champion in an open letter, in which he accused the PM of breaking the ministerial code - an act which the code currently says is a resigning matter.
Johnson will face a no confidence vote from Tory MPs today at 6pm after enough MPs sent letters to Sir Graham Brady to trigger the vote. And referring to a letter written by Johnson after the Sue Gray report was published, Penrose said that Johnson's response suggested that he had broken the code.
He says that Gray's report showed that Johnson had "failures of leadership and judgement" and that this breached the ministerial code, and he accused Johnson of failing to address this.
