A Kent MP has broken his silence over the Privileges Committee’s damning report into Boris Johnson.

Damian Green MP says he intends to back the findings - which were highly critical of the former prime minister Boris Johnson - saying he misled Parliament over ‘Partygate.’

The Ashford MP is among only a few Conservatives to have publicly declared where they stand on the report and its conclusions.

Mr Green argued that if his colleagues in the House of Commons failed to back the committee, it would raise questions about whether MPs should effectively continue to police their behaviour.

He said the report had made serious conclusions and, if Parliament was to run away, it would call into question “whether we should continue to have this form of self-regulation or whether it should not all be outsourced to other people and that would be a very serious step.”

Asked if he felt the Prime Minister should support the report’s finding when a vote is held next week, he said: “Personally, it is such an important act that deliberately abstaining is not really rising to the importance of the occasion.”

However he said he was sad to be in a situation where he was backing the Privileges Committee’s report into the behaviour of a former Prime Minister.

“I don't want to be doing this but it appears that the report is fairly clear cut and Parliament should respect its own procedures,” he told the Today programme on Radio 4.

But he would not be drawn on the question of whether he felt Mr Johnson could in the future be placed on a list of candidates for the party.

“I think it would be quite difficult and what I am particularly sad about is the response that he has made; if he had been a bit more temperate In his response then it would have been a bit easier for him to find a way back into active politics.”

The MP took issue with words Mr Johnson used, including “kangaroo court”, “witch hunt”, “deranged” and his controversial remark its findings “inevitably places a question mark over the integrity of people who have great integrity”.

Many MPs are keeping their counsel on the report after Mr Johnson openly criticised the findings of the committee.