The former prime minister Theresa May has delivered a stinging question to her successor from the backbenches, asking Boris Johnson whether he had misunderstood the Covid rules, not read the rules or simply ignored them.

After the Prime Minister and the leader of the opposition Sir Keir Starmer had exchanged blows in the chamber, it was the turn of Theresa May.

She said: "What the Sue Gray report does show is that No 10 Downing Street was not following the regulations they had imposed on members of the public.

"So, either my Right Honourable Friend had not read the rules, hadn't understood what they meant - and others around him - or they didn't think the rules applied to No. 10. Which was it?"

Mr Johnson faced a backlash from his own "deeply concerned" MPs as he fielded questions on Sue Gray's report.

Andrew Mitchell, the former Chief Whip, admitted that while he had previously given Boris Johnson his "full-throated" backing, he was "deeply concerned" by what he had heard at the Despatch Box and Mr Johnson "no longer enjoys my support".

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