TORY civil war erupted today as sacked home secretary Suella Braverman sent a stinging denunciation to Rishi Sunak accusing the Prime Minister of weakness and dishonesty.

Setting out a plan purportedly agreed between the two when Braverman backed Sunak for the Tory leadership a year ago, the new standard bearer of the Tory far right accused Sunak of “manifestly and repeatedly failing to deliver on every single one of these key policies,” including curbing migration.

“Either your distinctive style of government means you are incapable of doing so. Or, as I must surely conclude now, you never had any intention of keeping your promises,” Ms Braverman wrote in an incendiary letter designed to provoke a crisis in the government.

Andrea Jenkyns, Tory MP for Morley & Outwood, submitted a letter to the Tories’ governing 1922 committee calling for Mr Sunak to be fired and replaced with a “real” Conservative before the party faced electoral disaster.

And ex-Cabinet toff Jacob Rees-Mogg asserted that “Suella Braverman seems to have been sacked for following Conservative policy and principles too loudly” and that her “orthodox conservative” outlook was popular in the country.

The right were thrown a sop by Mr Sunak with the appointment of GB News presenter and ex-minister Esther McVey as a minister without portfolio. Her position has been described as “minister for anti-woke” and certainly she is well placed to keep the growing GB News faction of the Tories onside.

However, the hardliners will not have been reassured by comments from Lord Heseltine that the newly ennobled Lord Cameron’s comeback “will send a signal to a very wide number of people who have been dismayed by the way that the last few prime ministers have taken the party further and further to the right.”

Opening another front, two of Boris Johnson’s one-time Cabinet allies, Priti Patel and Nadhim Zahawi, pushed Chancellor Jeremy Hunt today to cut taxes in the Autumn Statement to be made next week.

Mr Hunt has ruled out tax cuts until inflation is more firmly under control.

This all made a mockery of Mr Sunak’s claim to his new Cabinet today that they were “strong and united.”

The next challenge for Mr Sunak will be a Supreme Court judgement on Wednesday on the legality of the government’s plan to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda.

Should the judges rule against ministers, then Tory pressure for Britain to leave the European Convention on Human Rights will escalate.