Executive committee members 

Sir Graham Brady

Described the Government’s Covid measures as a “disastrous assault on liberty” and voted against vaccine passports in December 2021.

Warned the rising cost of living was a major worry for voters.

Remained schtum on partygate.

Nusrat Ghani

Voted against vaccine passports. 

Member of anti-lockdown Covid Recovery Group.

One of 30 Tory MPs who voted against Johnson’s aid cuts in June 2021.

Claims chief whip Mark Spencer said her “Muslimness”cost her her job as transport minister in the February 2020 reshuffle. 

 Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

Voted against vaccine passports. 

On partygate, he said: “It depends a lot on what Sue Gray’s report says and whether she says directly that he broke the rules. If she says, well, it was a general culture and you know, there’s a fudge, I think then he’s got to do several things.”

He called for the PM to “radically reform the way the No 10 operation works”. 

Bob Blackman

Voted against vaccine passports. 

On Partygate, he said: “We need to get to the bottom of all these activities in No 10, adding: “Many of my constituents have sacrificed so much – not being able to visit sick or grieving relatives or attend funerals. I am clear that those who set the rules must abide by them or face the consequences.”

William Wragg

Voted against vaccine passports. 

On partygate, called for PM to resign, saying: “A series of unforced errors are deeply damaging to the perception of the party. The Prime Minister’s position is untenable.”

Accused whips of “blackmailing and intimidating” MPs who wanted to topple Boris Johnson and urged colleagues to report cases to police. 

Executive members

Karl McCartney 

Voted against covid passports. 

This month he retweeted tweets defending Boris against partygate allegations, and last month invited the PM to his constituency’s Christmas market.

Sir Bernard Jenkin

Praised Boris’s handling of Covid when Plan B restrictions dropped: “I am absolutely delighted and I think this shows Boris Johnson called it right at the beginning of the Omicron variant when he refused to be panicked into much more severe restrictions.”

On Partygate he has followed the government line, said “we must wait” for Sue Gray’s report.

Jason McCartney

Back the Prime Minister in November 2021 saying: “I am absolutely clear that the Prime Minister is the right person to take this country forward.”

In 2020 he demanded a clear road map out of lockdown and said Dominic Cummings position was “untenable” after the Barnard Castle debacle. 

Nicola Richards

Has regularly tweeted the  government’s Covid policy. 

In January 2022 she tweeted in support of the PM and regarding the Sue Gray report: “The PM helped win us seats like mine, he got brexit done and has pulled us through the pandemic. We at least owe it to him to wait for the report before making any judgments about the future.”

Sheryll Murray

Voted against the government over letting Huawei into the 5G network in March 2020

Has publicly supported Mr Johnson’s Covid policy, e.g. tweeting Plan B policy, retweeting PM’s Covid announcements.

She was critical of Cummings but fell short of urging him to go. 

Richard Holden 

On “Partygate”, said: “No, it’s definitely not [a yes Boris can survive]. Things will come to a head with the Sue Gray report…That’s going to be very important.” He also described Sue Gray as “formidable” and “not a pushover”.

Publicly supported Boris over Tories’ defeat in North Shropshire by-election.

Defended PM in October 2021, criticising BBC’s Nick Robinson’s interviewing technique: “It’s bizarre for the BBC to welcome the Prime Minister on for the first time in ages and then cut him off in his prime.”

Martin Vickers 

Discussing Partygate allegations with constituents, he said: “It was irresponsible, reckless and unacceptable and disciplinary actions, and possibly prosecutions, should follow.”

Said this weekend: “The truth is that none of this should have happened. I despair at the management structure in Downing Street that this could happen,” adding that Mr Johnson should have left immediately.

Very supportive of the Government’s Covid policy