A Bury MP has joined the growing chorus of backbenchers calling for Prime Minister Boris Johnson to resign.

Conservative Christian Wakeford who has represented Bury South since the 2019 election became the seventh MP to send in a letter of no confidence.

This comes as the Prime Minister faces growing pressure to step down after a string of allegations about parties at Downing Street during lockdown.

Many of the MPs who have publicly voted against Mr Johnson won their seats in slim majorities in the 2019 election, but some have said the plans to get rid of the Prime Minister go far wider.

MPs from the former Red Wall allegedly met with Mr Johnson to discuss his future in a meeting nicknamed the "pork pie plot" of the "pork pie putsch".

Mr Johnson, who was reported to have spent Tuesday evening in his Commons office meeting with potential rebels, apologised multiple times in a major broadcast interview for “misjudgment that were made”.

However, he stuck to his defence that he thought that a "bring your own booze" party in the No.10 garden was just a work event.

When asked if he had lied to Parliament over the parties while visiting a North London hospital, Mr Johnson said: “No. I want to begin by repeating my apologies to everybody for the misjudgements that I’ve made, that we may have made in No 10 and beyond, whether in Downing Street or throughout the pandemic.

“Nobody told me that what we were doing was against the rules, that the event in question was something that… was not a work event, and as I said in the House of Commons when I went out into that garden I thought that I was attending a work event.

“I do humbly apologise to people for misjudgements that were made but that is the very, very best of my recollection about this event."

He later confirmed he had given evidence to an inquiry being carried out by senior civil service official, Sue Gray, who has been described as "formidable".

While Chancellor Rishi Sunak has refused to lend his full support behind Mr Johnson, Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries said those voting against him were “being disloyal to the Prime Minister, the party, their constituents and the wider country”.

Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner said Mr Johnson “needs to go”.

“I think he’s trying to take the British public for fools. He’s not sorry that he clearly attended a party, knows it’s against the rules; he’s sorry he got caught for it,” she told the PA news agency.

“I think people are incredibly frustrated.”

“He won’t, of course, and now it’s up to his MPs to do the right thing.”