BORIS JOHNSON’S allies could face suspension from Parliament after being accused of running a co-ordinated campaign to undermine the privileges committee’s investigation of his partygate lies.

Senior Tories including serving minister Lord Zac Goldsmith, Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, Nadine Dorries and Dame Priti Patel were named today in the special report by the Commons committee.

MPs will consider whether their actions amounted to contempt of Parliament and what action to take a week on Monday.

The disgraced former prime minister quit as MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip after reading the committee’s recommendation that he should face a lengthy suspension for misleading the Commons with his denials of hosting lockdown-busting parties in Downing Street.

Mr Johnson’s supporters sought to discredit the Labour-led but Tory-majority committee as a “witch hunt” and “kangaroo court,” and today he was found to be complicit in the campaign against the panel investigating him.

Other MPs quoted in the special report include Mark Jenkinson, Sir Michael Fabricant, Brendan Clarke-Smith and Dame Andrea Jenkyns.

The MPs criticised “did not choose to engage through any proper process such as the submission of letters or evidence to our inquiry, but by attacking the members of the committee, in order to influence their judgement,” the report said.

Their aim was to “influence the outcome of the inquiry,” “impede the work of the committee by inducing members to resign from it,” “discredit the committee’s conclusions if those conclusions were not what they wanted” and “discredit the committee as a whole.”

Downing Street said that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak had confidence in Lord Goldsmith but declined to criticise the MPs named in the report.

Earlier this month, he failed to take part in a Commons vote that endorsed a previous damning report on his former boss from the committee. 

Labour’s shadow Commons leader Thangam Debbonaire said: “Rishi Sunak has allowed senior members of his own party to undermine and attack Britain’s democratic institutions. 

“It’s time Rishi Sunak condemned his Conservative colleagues who have sought to override Parliament’s standards system to get one of their own off the hook.

“While Rishi Sunak focuses on keeping the Boris Johnson sycophants in his own party happy, people up and down the country are left facing the cost of the Tory mortgage penalty and soaring rents.”