With the full Sue Gray report now published, South East Staffordshire Lib Dems call on Johnson to resign

The local Liberal Democrats have accused the Conservatives of "failing the country" and added that, while thousands in Staffordshire made sacrifices, Boris Johnson's Number 10 partied. Then, after news of the parties leaked, the PM continued to deny knowledge of or participation in anything illegal. Only when denial became impossible was an admission made and a sort of apology given. Those of you who have seen the latest 'apology' the PM gave today to Parliament may well have felt it lacked any trace of genuine remorse. Instead he chose to remind the House that, indeed, he himself had not been at most of the gatherings. And he was as surprised and shocked as anyone to learn what had been going on. He'd not been bright enough to ask his staff what had been happening before promising the House that all rules had been obeyed. In both the culture he allowed to develop and his inability to tell the truth to Parliament, he underlines again the lack of leadership the whole episode has exposed. How can we trust him to lead better in the face of so many pressing challenges the country faces.

Responding to the Sue Gray report, Leader of the Liberal Democrats Ed Davey added:

"This report lays bare the shocking failures of leadership by Boris Johnson and shows why he's not fit to be prime minister of our country.

"Johnson has dragged his entire government through the mud to protect his own job.

"He didn't care while he laughed and broke the rules while the country was in lockdown. And he doesn't care now when every household in Britain faces eye-watering costs at the petrol pumps, sky-rocketing food prices and massive energy bills.

"Any other Prime Minister would be forced to resign by a report as damaging as this, yet still Conservative MPs defend the Prime Minister and allow him to cling on."