Tory backbencher Peter Bone revealed today that his constituency office was targeted by vandals over his support for lobbying shame MP Owen Paterson.

The Wellingborough MP sounded shaken as he made the admission in the Commons today.

Mr Bone voted in support of Andrea Leadsom's successful amendment last night that stalled Mr Paterson's 30-day suspension for acting as a paid lobbyist and paved the way for a new corruption regimen.

He was also one of 58 MPs who added their name to her amendment, showing the depth of their support for the change and their support for Mr Paterson.

But after Jacob Rees-Mogg this morning announced a Government U-turn, Mr Bone told MPs: 'This morning my office was vandalised because of the way I voted last night. That puts my staff in danger, and this is not the way this should happen.    

'We could have strong disagreements but some of us should remember what happened to Sir David Amess and perhaps our language needs to be a little temperate.'

Boris Johnson had earlier executed an extraordinary U-turn on his decision to block punishment for ally Mr Paterson today after he faced an overwhelming outcry.

Commons Leader Mr Rees-Mogg announced the government has dropped plans for a retrospective overhaul of sleaze rules after a huge backlash at the 'politically-motivated' decision.

The move means that a motion on suspending Mr Paterson for 30 days for lobbying rule breaches - as was recommended by the cross-party standards committee - is now set to be brought before the House again.

The PM had smashed convention by ordering his party to oppose the conclusions of the standards watchdog.

But the amendment 'pausing' the process and calling for a reform of the sleaze rules still only narrowly passed last night, as he was hit with a major revolt - including ministerial aide Angela Richardson who was then fired.

The block had sparked complete chaos, leaving the existing system for regulating MPs' behaviour in tatters and Opposition parties vowing to boycott the government's plans to agree a new one.

Mr Paterson, Tory MP for North Shropshire, was found to have committed an 'egregious' breach of standards rules by directly advocating for two companies from which he pocketed some £500,000. He continues to deny any wrongdoing, saying he would do it all again, and has called for standards commissioner Kathryn Stone to resign - something that was endorsed by Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng just hours before the volte face.

Addressing MPs, Mr Rees-Mogg said today: 'It is important that standards in this House are done on a cross-party basis.

'The House voted very clearly yesterday to show that it is worried about the process of handling these complaints and that we would like an appeals system, but the change would need to be on a cross-party basis and that is clearly not the case.

'While there is a very strong feeling on both sides of the House that there is a need for an appeals process, there is equally a strong feeling that this should not be based on a single case or apply retrospectively.

'I fear last night's debate conflated an individual case with the general concern. This link needs to be broken.

'Therefore I and others will be looking to work on a cross-party basis to achieve improvements in our system for future cases.

'We will bring forward more detailed proposals once there have been cross-party discussions.'

One government source told MailOnline of Mr Paterson: 'He's going to end up being suspended.'