Boris Johnson faces loss of Westminster pass as MPs back Partygate report | Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson faces being blocked from getting a pass allowing him unlimited access to the House of Commons, after MPs backed the punishment for his five contempts of parliament.

The former prime minister was censured in his absence, given that he formally quit as an MP last week, for misleading parliament over Partygate and his conduct towards the privileges committee.

Though decisions about blocking ex-MPs from receiving a pass granting special access to the parliamentary estate are for the Commons authorities, the move was recommended by the Commons’ privileges committee and endorsed by MPs on Monday.

Johnson’s allies boycotted a vote on the privileges committee’s report, in a move that was widely seen as a tactic to avoid showing how weak support for him in the Conservative parliamentary party has become.

An overwhelming majority backed the privileges committee’s conclusion that Johnson committed five contempts of parliament, including misleading both the Commons and the cross-party group investigating him. The final vote was 354 to seven.