COVID-bereaved families said Boris Johnson should never be allowed to hold public office again after a parliamentary report found he deliberately misled the House of Commons with his “partygate” denials.

The privileges committee said the disgraced former prime minister made “repeated contempts” before launching into what amounted to an “attack on our democratic institutions.”

Mr Johnson was branded a “pound-shop Trump” as he refused to apologise and accused the committee of making “Mystic Meg” claims and reaching a “deranged conclusion” in a blistering response to its report today.

David Garfinkel, spokesman for Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK, said: “Johnson has shown no remorse. Instead he lied to our faces when he told us that he’d done ‘all he could’ to protect our loved ones.

“He lied again when he said the rules hadn’t been broken in No 10, and he’s lied ever since when he’s denied it again and again.

“It’s an utter tragedy that Johnson was in charge when the pandemic struck and he should never be allowed to stand for any form of public office again.

“His fall from grace must serve as a lesson to other politicians to act with honesty and to serve the public as a whole — that is the only positive that can come from this.”

Labour urged Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to hold a vote to approve the committee report finding Mr Johnson is a “lawbreaker and a liar,” as well as its sanctions.

Shadow Commons leader Thangam Debbonaire said: “The evidence in this report is damning and the conclusions the committee came to are clear: Boris Johnson is a lawbreaker and a liar.

“Rishi Sunak must now confirm the government will follow precedent and give the house the opportunity to approve the report and endorse the sanctions in full.”

He added the report made it “inconceivable” the PM approved Mr Johnson’s resignation honours list just a week ago.

Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner said: “He’s not fit for public office and he’s disgraced himself and continues to act like a pound-shop Trump in the way in which he tries to discredit anybody who criticises his actions, when actually a decent public servant would have done the honourable thing, would have had a little bit of humility and would have apologised to the British public for what they put them through.

“He should apologise to British people.”

The committee said it would have recommended a suspension of 90 days if Mr Johnson, who quit as MP last Friday, after finding he had misled the Commons.

Finding that he lied to MPs with his partygate denials, the committee wrote: “We conclude that when he told the house and this committee that the rules and guidance were being complied with, his own knowledge was such that he deliberately misled the house and this committee.”

It also found that his attack of its work amounted to “an attack on our democratic institutions,” noting that “Mr Johnson does not merely criticise the fairness of the committee’s procedures; he also attacks in very strong, indeed vitriolic, terms the integrity, honesty and honour of its members.

“He stated that the committee had ‘forced him out (…) anti-democratically’.”

The committee suggested Mr Johnson should be barred from having a parliamentary pass.

Labour’s Sir Chris Bryant told the Commons every member of it deserved a medal “not least because of the intimidation.”

Downing Street said that “it would not be right to traduce or criticise” the work of the committee.

It rejected suggestions that Mr Johnson’s resignation honours list should be rescinded and suggested the PM had not had a chance to read the report.