Several MPs from Buckinghamshire did not vote on a Privileges Committee report into the conduct of Boris Johnson during the Partygate scandal, with two voting in support of the findings and one voting in opposition.

Aylesbury MP Rob Butler, Buckingham MP Greg Smith, Milton Keynes North MP Ben Everitt and Milton Keynes South MP Iain Stewart were among Conservatives who chose to abstain from voting on the findings of a Privileges Committee report which found former prime minister Boris Johnson to have deliberately misled parliament.

Wycombe MP Steve Baker and Chesham and Amersham MP Sarah Green both voted in support of the report, which was passed by an overwhelming majority of 354 assenting votes in the House of Commons to only seven dissenters.

Beaconsfield and Marlow MP Joy Morrissey was among the seven Conservatives who chose to back Boris Johnson and reject the committee’s findings.

Mrs Morrissey said she believed the report “establishes precedents that Parliament will regret” and that she did not think the report proved that Boris Johnson did knowingly mislead Parliament.

Boris Johnson was found to have committed five serious offences by the Privileges Committee, including deliberately misleading the Commons when he said that either no Covid rules were broken or that he had been assured none were broken, breaching confidence by leaking part of the report in his resignation letter last week and being complicit in a “campaign of abuse and attempted intimidation” of committee members.

Mr Johnson’s defeat in the House of Commons vote means that he would have faced a 90-day suspension had he not stepped down last Friday and that he will no longer be permitted to enter Parliament except in a guest capacity.

The findings of the committee have increased public scrutiny of the former prime minister's controversial Resignation Honours List, which granted peerages and OBEs to members of his cabinet shortly before he was found to have committed “repeated contempts” of Parliament.

Leader of the House of Commons Penny Mordaunt suggested yesterday that members of the public believe there has been a “debasement of the honours system” by Boris Johnson, with particular outcry directed towards Shaun Bailey, the former mayoral candidate granted a peerage in Mr Johnson’s honours list who has been implicated in recently emerged footage from an illegal lockdown party in Westminster.