The sensational sacking was later satirised by Toby Young and Lloyd Evans in a theatre show called 'Who's the Daddy?'
Tim Martin said CCTV in the company’s central London pubs could have helped with inquiries.
Several Red Wall MPs are reportedly preparing to submit their letters to SIr Graham Brady.
The media mogul reportedly asked Johnson to scrap the BBC while bouncing the PM's son Wilfred on his knee at Chequers.
The prime minister insisted "nobody told me that what we were doing was against the rules".
Writing in the Telegraph, Moore said the BBC had failed to show "superimpartiality" in its Partygate coverage.
But the former foreign secretary said "It would take a lot to persuade me to put my hat into the ring".
It comes as new polling shows the chancellor holds a 28-point lead over Liz Truss among Conservative members.
"I moved to England because of its tolerance and open-mindedness. So when I started to see the posters on the windows, when I started to hear Nigel Farage demonising the foreigners, the hatred and racism that was now in plain sight, I started to feel uncomfortable."
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