Sir Robert Buckland has said he will not be calling for Boris Johnson to resign.

The South Swindon MP made the announcement during an appearance on BBC's Question Time on Thursday night.

The Prime Minister is under severe pressure from the opposition and from some of his own Tory MPs following the Sue Gray report, which published a damming verdict on Mr Johnson's handling of the affair.

The Prime Minister also made history by being the first sitting First Lord of the Treasury to have broken the law, after he was handed a fixed penalty notice for breaching Covid rules.

As a result, some senior Tory MPs have called on Mr Johnson to resign.

But the man he sacked as Justice Secretary isn't one of them.

Speaking on Question Time, Sir Robert said he had given the matter a lot of “anxious thought”.

He said: “I asked him (Mr Johnson) a direct question on Wednesday on whether he had lied to the Commons, I accept that answer.

“Am I happy about the situation, no I am not happy.”

Sir Robert was part of the cabinet when some of the parties were going on in No 10.

But the former government minister denied he had any knowledge of the parties.

He said: “I did not have a Scooby-Doo or any knowledge about what was going on.

“When I heard it along with the rest of the country, I was as shocked and appalled as everybody else.”

In order to remove the PM, Conservative MPs need to submit a number of no-confidence letters to the 1922 Committee.

Once the threshold is met, then a no-confidence vote is held.

If Tory MPs then vote to say that they have no-confidence Mr Johnson would be removed from office and a leadership election would be triggered.

When challenged by a member of the audience if he had submitted a no-confidence letter to the 1922 committee, Sir Robert said: “I don’t do letters, if I think somebody should resign, I will say it publicly.

“I don’t do skulduggery.”