WAGING war on the “woke,” blocking the boats and backing armed police was the far-right message from Home Secretary Suella Braverman today as she pandered to every prejudice at Tory Party conference.

Ms Braverman reinforced her reputation as the darling of the Tory right by hitting out at migrants and progressive opinion in her speech in Manchester.

She tried to make the flesh creep with a warning that a “hurricane” was bringing “millions more migrants to these shores,” a bid to echo Enoch Powell’s infamous “rivers of blood” rhetoric.

Ms Braverman pledged to “do whatever it takes to stop the boats and deter bogus asylum-seekers” and warned that she was indifferent to allegations that she has pandered to racism.

“We were too slow to recognise the scale of the problem. Too unwilling to accept that our legal framework needed to be updated.

“And, let’s be honest, far too squeamish about being smeared as racist to properly bring order to the chaos,” she said, citing Thatcher, Cameron and Churchill as predecessors similarly “smeared.”

In a bizarre back-handed acknowledgement of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Braverman asserted that the Tories stood for “the many, not the few,” adopting the line, taken from Shelley, used by Labour under Corbyn’s leadership.

Mr Corbyn responded that Ms Braverman was using “utterly despicable language straight out of the far-right playbook. There’s no point quoting Shelley, Suella. You sound more like Enoch Powell.”

Green MP Caroline Lucas called the speech “utterly repulsive” and Labour MP Jon Trickett called it “dreadful.”

But former Brexit Party boss Nigel Farage said “she offered no solutions” on small boats.

Campaign group Freedom from Torture said: “Instead of showboating and scaremongering, the Home Secretary should be focusing all her efforts on rebuilding the asylum system so that we can be confident we are providing protection to those who need it.”

In a speech designed both to draw dividing lines for the next general election and to consolidate her position as candidate of the populist hard right in any Tory leadership contest thereafter, Ms Braverman set out to push every hot button for the party’s reactionary membership and was rewarded with a standing ovation.

But a senior Tory London Assembly member, Andrew Boff, was removed from the hall for claiming that the speech was a “homophobic rant.”

“The next election will also be fought on law and order between a Conservative government that wants the police to focus on criminal justice and a Labour Party that thinks the police should prioritise social justice,” Ms Braverman said.

She backed armed police after the recent charging of one of their number with having murdered Chris Kaba. 

“You are the thin blue line, you have our support,” she said.

Claiming that under Labour, Britain would “go properly woke,” she denounced “the luxury beliefs brigade in their ivory towers” who allegedly back open borders, soft sentences and reversing Brexit but are embarrassed by patriotism. 

The Human Rights Act, she said, should be called the “Criminal Rights Act.”

Further indulging the resurgent Tory right, Premier Rishi Sunak today implied that Mr Farage, seen singing with Ms Braverman’s predecessor Priti Patel at a conference reception, would be welcome to join the Tory Party. 

Mr Farage, however, ruled out such a move, claiming that he exercised more influence from outside, which on all appearances would be true.

Tory candidate for London mayor, Susan Hall, was at the centre of another bigotry storm after she implied that Jewish voters in the capital felt threatened by Sadiq Khan.

She refused to apologise after alleging that Jewish people in London were “frightened” because of the “divisive attitudes” of the Labour mayor. 

The Board of Deputies was among those distancing themselves from her remarks.

Ms Braverman, however, said in her speech that Ms Hall was the victim of Labour “character assassination.”