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.