On Thursday, Tory MPs, including Sir Bill Cash and Sir Ian Duncan Smith, launched a fightback, signing a motion deploring the behavior of the privileges committee.
The motion – a copy of which has been seen by The Telegraph – aims to stop the committee’s work.
This “expresses [the House of Commons’] concern about the publication of the report by the privileges committee” and “notes the divergence from the established convention of “deliberately misleading”’.
The motion also states that the investigation is “now unnecessary and should be terminated and the privilege committee proceedings discontinued.”
Separately, Mr Johnson launched his own fight in the Commons, with a lengthy statement saying he was proud of his government’s record and insisting millions were “right to put their trust in me”.
On the final day before MPs leave Westminster for the summer break, the Prime Minister issued a 2,568-word statement outlining her administration’s achievements, including getting Brexit done and resolving a “deadlocked parliament and a paralyzed government.”
He praised his Government’s handling of the Covid pandemic, which he described as the “biggest challenge since the Second World War”, and listed a number of leveling achievements, from making streets safer to fix the broken welfare system.
And referring to his successor in Number 10, Johnson added: “I know that the Conservative government that follows us will do what their predecessors have always done and rise to the challenges of the day in the service of the British people.”