WIRRAL MPs have urged the Prime Minister to go after he survived a no-confidence vote challenging his leadership.

MPs voted 211 in favour of and 148 against Boris Johnson on Monday night, meaning that he will not be ousted from his role. Under current rules, he cannot be challenged again for 12 months.

The vote was triggered after 54 Tory MPs submitted letters of no confidence to the party's 1922 Committee.

There had been calls for Mr Johnson to resign in the wake of Sue Gray’s report into breaches of the Covid regulations in No 10 and Whitehall.

Responding to the vote's outcome Mick Whitley, MP for Birkenhead, said: "Boris Johnson has the haunted look of a dead man walking. The Tory Party is now hopelessly split, yet Johnson is still in office.

"I know people in Birkenhead who have been sacked after receiving a fixed penalty notice. I know of people who have been hit with £10,000 fines for innocent posts on Facebook that were deemed a breach of lockdown rules.

"Yet Boris Johnson gets off with a few quid in a fine, backing from 211 hypocrites from the so-called party of law and order, and the chance to carry on letting the people of Birkenhead and beyond get battered by the cost-of-living crisis.

"This cannot go on - that is what my constituents are telling me. They are dismayed at the moral decay that now festers at the heart of British politics.

"Just as in Birkenhead people were saying quite openly and quite rightly that Johnson had to go.

"The 211 MPs who supported him have defied the will of the people who elected them.

"The pressure to get rid of Johnson will grow and those MPs can be sure that the electorate will take note of their support for the lawbreaker in Downing Street.

"A Labour Government is the only sure way out of the mess Johnson has led this country into."

Wirral South MP Margaret Greenwood added: "Conservative MPs had the opportunity to remove Boris Johnson from the office of prime minister.

"That they failed to do so is incredibly disappointing. People up and down the country are appalled at the findings of Sue Gray’s report, and they are sickened by the behaviour of Boris Johnson.

"He has broken the law, presided over a culture of rule-breaking in Number 10 and is under investigation by the Commons Privileges Committee over allegations that he misled parliament.

"Despite all of this, the majority of Conservative MPs have decided to back him. This is an insult to the millions of people who have made real sacrifices during the pandemic.

"41% of Conservative MPs voted that they have lost confidence in Johnson’s ability to lead this country. His authority is in tatters.

"Boris Johnson should do the right thing and resign."

Wallasey Labour MP, Dame Angela Eagle, said: "The Prime Minister may have clung on by the skin of his teeth last night, but it is clear he is unfit to lead this country.

"He has lost control of his own party - 41% of his MPs agree that he cannot, and should not, be trusted to lead.

"The Conversative Party is now ungovernable, and every day the Prime Minister remains in power he drags our country further into the mud.

"His Government is incompetent, cruel, and chaotic - he must now finally do the right thing and resign."

Wirral South MP Alison McGovern has also been approached for comment.