Boris Johnson is set to face another grilling when he appears before Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday.
He is facing Prime Minister's Questions amid reports Tory MPs could launch a vote of no confidence in an attempt to oust him. Read the latest news live here.
Questions will be at the normal time of 12pm, with Sir Keir Starmer once again asking the questions for the opposition.
Reports on Tuesday night suggested MPs furious at the Prime Minister's handling of the partygate scandal engulfing Westminster had been angered further by Mr Johnson's insistence that nobody had told him a party at Downing Street would break rules he himself had set.
And that especially those in the 2019 intake, many of whom have slim majorities after votes were "lent" to them during the last election, were preparing to submit their letters to the chairman of the 1922 Committee of backbench MPs, Sir Graham Brady.
But a number of newspapers reported that the plot to oust Mr Johnson was far wider, as the PM will attempt to reassure his party when he appears in the Commons for Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday.
Mr Johnson, who was reported to have spent Tuesday evening in his Commons office meeting with potential rebels, apologised multiple times in a major broadcast interview for "misjudgments that were made".
But he stuck to his defence that he had thought a "bring your own booze" party held in the No 10 garden on May 20, 2020 had been a work event and he had not been warned about it in advance.
Mr Johnson's former chief aide Dominic Cummings threw that into doubt on Monday as he said he would "swear under oath" Mr Johnson was told about the bash.
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