North Swindon MP Justin Tomlinson has expressed his continuing support for the prime minister Boris Johnson amid a spate of ministerial resignations.

According to a tweet by BBC Wiltshire’s politics reporter Dan O’Brien: “North Swindon's MP and deputy Tory chair Justin Tomlinson remains loyal to the PM praising his work on Covid and Ukraine and adds "the country rightly now expects us to focus on the cost of living challenge, not internal endless debate".”

Mr Tomlinson remains the deputy chairman of the Conservative party – but he will be looking around an increasingly empty office.

Following the resignation of the co-chairman of the party Oliver Dowden in June,  the vice chairman of the party Bim Afolami quit his post live on air during a television interview on Tuesday night, following the resignations of Health Secretary Sajid Javid and the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak.

Those resignations were followed by a spate of more junior ministers stepping down – although Chippenham MP Michelle Donelan was promoted to Secretary of State for Education.

South Swindon MP Robert Buckland who was fired by Mr Johnson from his cabinet post as Justice Secretary in September 2021 has not yet commented on what seems to be a crisis for Number 10.

He last spoke on the PM when he said he took Mr Johnson’s “straight answer” that he had not lied to parliament to the “straight question” Mr Buckland asked in the House of Commons.