BORIS Johnson faces the prospect of a Tory rebellion when MPs are asked to approve the extension of coronavirus restrictions in England until July 19.

The House of Commons will vote this evening on the four-week delay to the end of lockdown measures, aimed at buying more time for the vaccine programme.

Labour has signalled it will back the extension so the Prime Minister should be spared a defeat, but Conservative lockdown-sceptics are likely to express their anger during a debate.

Among those sceptics is Shipley MP Philip Davies, who on Monday said he was "incredibly angry" and "frustrated beyond belief" by the extension of measures from June 21 to July 19.

Depsite a huge increase in the number of Covid cases driven by the Delta variant, Mr Davies said there was "no justification" for any restrictions to remain in place.

Scientific advisers have said the delay is necessary to prevent a fresh spike in hospital admissions due to the rapidly spreading Delta variant first identified in India.

Senior Cabinet minister Michael Gove has said it would take something “unprecedented and remarkable” for restrictions to be extended any further than July 19.

But in a sign that Cabinet ministers have concerns about the extension, outspoken Commons leader Jacob Rees-Mogg said: “You can’t run society just to stop the hospitals being full, otherwise you’d never let us get in our cars and drive anywhere or do any of the other things that people want to do, so there has to be some proportionality.”

Labour has said it will support the extension, but has put the blame for it squarely at the feet of Boris Johnson for not putting India on the travel red list earlier, allowing the Delta variant into the UK.

Before the vote, Mr Johnson has to face Keir Starmer at Prime Minister's Questions, while the Prime Minister is sending Health Secretary Matt Hancock out to open the restrictions extension debate and face angry backbenchers rather than doing it himself.