Sir Jeremy Wright has confirmed that he voted against Boris Johnson in last night's confidence vote.

The MP for Kenilworth and Southam, who was knighted in the Jubilee Honours List last week, released a long statement last Monday calling on the Prime Minister to resign following the publication of the Sue Gray report.

The former attorney general said Mr Johnson had caused "real and lasting damage" to the Government's reputation.

And as Conservative MPs voted against their own leader last night, he was among the 148 who attempted to unseat the PM.

"I have explained at some length why I have concluded that the Prime Minister should now leave office and given all that has happened, and the Prime Minister's response to it, I cannot have confidence in his leadership of the Conservative Party or of the Government and I voted accordingly in the ballot held on Monday 6 June," he said to Nub News.

Tory rebels were voted down by 211 to 148 in their attempts to remove Mr Johnson from office, meaning that he is now safe for 12 months from another confidence vote.

Despite the narrow margin the PM described the result as "decisive" and said it was "an opportunity to put behind us all the stuff that the media goes on about".

Labour MP for Warwick and Leamington Matt Western said the vote was a chance for Conservative MP's to "do the right thing" and remove a Prime Minister who has "poisoned our politics".

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He said: "For months I've been urging Conservative MPs – particularly those in Warwickshire – to put the national interest ahead of their party's interests.

"So far only one Warwickshire Conservative MP has called on the Prime Minister to resign and that was in the last few days."

Kenilworth Nub News has contacted the Conservative leader of Warwick District Council Cllr Andrew Day for his take on yesterday's ballot.