WEST Dunbartonshire’s MP has branded Boris Johnson as an “idiot” over a report into his conduct as Prime Minister.

The report, which was carried out by the Privileges Committee, looked into whether the former Prime Minister had misled the House of Commons over Partygate.

In a clip uploaded to social media – and viewed over 200,000 times – Martin Docherty-Hughes criticised Johnson for missing five emergency Covid-19 Cobra meetings.

Addressing MPs on Monday Mr Docherty-Hughes went on to add that the coronavirus pandemic was “the greatest tragedy since the Blitz” and urged MPs to back the findings of the report.

A statement reads: “That idiot missed five Covid-19 Cobra meetings. People were dying, it’s the greatest tragedy since the Blitz and he couldn’t be bothered to turn up.

“My constituents turned up. They had to go to work, they drove ambulances, they were in working as porters in hospitals and what do they get told?

“And I’ll quote it again: ‘That he gets his pass taken off of him’. Now that actually sounds quite pathetic, but that’s the limitations that we have been given to us in this report, it’s the limitations placed on the Privileges Committee itself.

“I hope members on all sides will go through the lobbies tonight [June 19] to actually support the report with all its limitations."

On Monday, 354 of the UK’s 650 MPs voted to approve the cross-party committee's report which found Boris Johnson had lied to Parliament in his statements on Partygate.

It concluded that Johnson should have faced a 90-day suspension for misleading the House when he told the Commons that Covid rules were adhered to at 10 Downing Street despite parties taking place.

The report also recommended banning the former Prime Minister from being given a pass to access Parliament – something which is usually available to former MPs.

Despite backing the report Martin Docherty-Hughes said that it didn't answer questions that his constituents in Clydebank, Dumbarton, and The Vale wanted to know.

He added: "It [the report] doesn’t answer the questions that my constituents want as to why Boris Johnson’s not at that Bar, being held in contempt as a stranger.

“Now some people might say that’s a bit of an arcane process but he was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland.

“The first time a Prime Minister has been held in contempt of the House, and this is all we have got to say to him.

“How ridiculous this place must seem to our constituents. How ridiculous to the people of Clydebank, Dumbarton, and The Vale that this ex-Prime Minister swans off and they are living in the traumas of the modern age.

“What an absolute parcel of rogues in a nation.”