BORIS Johnson today faces a crunch Commons vote on whether he told the truth over Partygate.
MPs will decide if the PM lied to them when he claimed all lockdown rules were obeyed in No10.
Labour have called the vote to publicly shame the PM for misleading Parliament and ask the standards watchdog to investigate.
Deliberately telling porkies in Parliament is a grave offence for which ministers are expected to resign.
If enough Tory rebels choose to condemn the PM, he would face a dangerous probe by the Privileges Committee.
Last night Downing Street moved to squash Labour’s bid for a fresh probe by launching their own wrecking amendment.
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They are telling Conservative MPs to kick the probe into the long grass until after Sue Gray has published her Partygate report.
A Government spokesman said this would “allow MPs to have all the facts at their disposal” before hauling the PM over the coals.
Despite being fined £50 for a lockdown-busting birthday party in June 2020, the PM insists he never lied to Parliament.
Last year he denied multiple times in the Commons that rule flouting had gone on in No10 during the pandemic.
Yet – while apologising “wholeheartedly” – he now insists these denials were made in “good faith” as he genuinely believed he was sticking to the law.
Mr Johnson, who is on a trip to India and will not be at the vote today, last night blasted critics bloodthirsty for his downfall.
He said aboard his jet “not a lot of circumstances spring to mind” in which he would throw in the towel.
And asked if Partygate did not matter, a defiant PM hit back: “You’re better off talking about things other than politicians themselves.”
