Boris Johnson has resigned as the MP for Uxbridge & South Ruislip with immediate effect after receiving the privileges committee Partygate findings.
The ex-Prime Minister said: "It is very sad to be leaving Parliament - at least for now - but above all I am bewildered and appalled that I can be forced out, anti-democratically, by a committee chaired and managed, by Harriet Harman, with such egregious bias.
"I am being forced out by a tiny handful of people, with no evidence to back up their assertions, and without approval even of Conservative party members let alone the wider electorate.
"I believe that a dangerous and unsettling precedent is being set."
In a swipe against Sunak, Johnson added: "Our party needs urgently to recapture its sense of momentum and its belief in what this country can do.
"We need to cut business and personal taxes – and not just as pre-election gimmicks – rather than endlessly putting them up."
The former Prime Minister, 58, was first elected as the MP for the West London seat in 2015.
Johnson, who was twice-elected as Mayor of London, previously served as Henley MP from 2001 to 2008.
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