Boris Johnson ‘calls off the dogs’ and urges his supporters not to vote against banning him from Parliament

BORIS Johnson has “called off the dogs” and told supporters not to vote against banning him from Parliament.

The Commons is due to vote to approve the report into his Partygate lies — with the ex-PM sure to lose.

Jon Bond

Boris Johnson does not want his supporters to get dragged into the row over his future[/caption]

But allies said he told them “not to die in a ditch” as hundreds of MPs will back the withering findings.

MPs believe an embarrassing showdown on Monday will now be avoided altogether with MPs rubber-stamping the findings instead.

A handful of Boris­ supporting MPs had vowed to vote against finding him in contempt of Parliament and banning him for life from having a pass to the Palace of Westminster.

Last night key backer Sir James Duddridge said: “I don’t think there’s going to be a vote.

“People just want to move on.”

Before the climbdown PM Rishi Sunak had planned to duck out of the vote by greeting a European leader, sources say.