The list of resignations from Boris Johnson’s Government has grown to 16 in the last two days.

The Prime Minister is under growing pressure from within his own party to resign and backbenchers have said if he doesn’t, they will now remove him.

The Conservative MPs are considering changing the rules to hold another confidence vote to oust Johnson as leader.

They are confident they would now have enough to back a no confidence motion.

Last month Johnson survived by 211 to 148.

Many of those votes in support of Johnson were so called pay-roll votes, from members of the government.

The list of resignations added to other backbenchers, who have said they would vote against could be enough to tip the balance against the Prime Minister.

Yesterday Johnson was rocked with the resignation of two of the most senior cabinet ministers.

Johnson is about to face Labour leader, Keir Starmer and MPs at Prime Minister Questions today in the House of Commons.

The full list of resignations from cabinet ministers, junior ministers and other government roles:

Chancellor Rishi Sunak

Health secretary Sajid Javid

Will Quince, education minister

Alex Chalk, solicitor general

Robin Walker, education minister

John Glen, treasury minister

Victoria Atkins, justice minister

Parliamentary private secretaries

Jonathan Gullis, Northern Ireland Office

Saqib Bhatti, Department of Health and Social Care

Nicola Richards, Department of Transport

Virginia Crosbie, Welsh Office

Laura Trott, Department of Transport

Felicity Buchan, Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Others

Bim Afolami, vice-chairman of the Conservative Party for youth

Andrew Murrison, trade envoy to Morocco

Theodora Clarke, trade envoy to Kenya