Mr Davis was a significant Conservative Celebration defector when he made the decision throughout Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) in January.
It was significantly damaging for Mr Johnson as Mr Davis is well-respected amongst Tory backbenchers, and is a former Brexit Secretary.
This week, talking as Mr Johnson faces but extra stress to step apart after the discharge of the much-anticipated Sue Grey report, the 73-year-old spoke to GB Information' Gloria de Piero.
Gloria requested the previous Tory management candidate: "So, earlier this 12 months, since we’re onto Boris Johnson, it was a kind of breathtaking moments in PMQs if you mentioned to the Prime Minister: ‘Within the identify of God, go.’ Was that a mistake?"
Talking in Gloria's Life and Occasions sequence, Mr Davis replied: "No, under no circumstances.
"After I change my thoughts, I’ll let you realize. I’ll come in your programme and let you know!"
Mr Davis, who with Mr Johnson was instrumental within the downfall of former Prime Minister Theresa Might when he rejected her Chequers plan in 2018, then mentioned his morning routine.
He added that Mr Johnson's transfer to deflect blame onto his workers was what triggered his Partygate anger.
Mr Davis advised Gloria: "What occurred that morning, and I made a decision that morning. I used to be on my train bike.
"My morning begins with ten minutes on the train bike, ten minutes on the rowing machine.
"And I watch the evening earlier than’s information as a result of I don’t get house, typically, till after the information, so I all the time document it.
"And I watched the Beth Rigby interview when he appeared in charge his subordinates. All this ‘they didn’t inform me,’ all that type of stuff.
"Now, I used to be introduced up in enterprise and in navy, in politics I used to be a minister: you don’t blame your subordinates. You shoulder the accountability.
"I imply, you used that phrase within the intervention, that you simply shoulder the accountability to your personal actions.
"And that was the purpose at which I assumed it had simply gone too far. I’d been defending him up till then.
"I assumed, you realize, if he doesn’t go we’ll have – the truth is, I really gave an interview – we’ll have dying by 1,000 cuts, the blame will unfold to different Cupboard ministers, then it's going to unfold to the remainder of Authorities, then it's going to unfold to the remainder of the social gathering, and it'll go on till Christmas.
"Nicely, to this point, each single one in all my predictions has been proper."
Mr Davis, who labored in enterprise and served within the navy earlier than going into politics, then moved to make clear his intervention.
He continued: "The bit that individuals overlook about that quote was the primary bit, as a result of it was a quote from Cromwell initially; it was really a quote of a quote from Cromwell, taken by one in all Churchill’s supporters from Cromwell.
"And the primary bit is: ‘You've gotten sat there too lengthy for all the great you have got achieved.’
"I wasn’t denying he’d achieved a whole lot of good. He’d delivered Brexit and all this stuff and obtained us by means of Covid. I’d had my disputes about that, however by no means thoughts.
"And it was ‘you’ve sat there too lengthy for all the great you’ve achieved.’ You’ve achieved a lot good – don’t blight it. And that was my primary line, and that was it, that was the explanation.
"I don’t remorse it. I had 1,000 enemies the following day. Nicely, later that day.
"However, since then, I’ve had one million supporters.
"It’s fairly plain that no odd individual, I imply, exterior Boris’ circle – in fact they’re cross with me, they’d be improper to not be – however on the doorstep, on the practice, within the streets, within the tearoom, all over the place, folks say: ‘Really, you have been proper.’"
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