Rishi Sunak was slammed by outgoing minister who judged his leadership a ‘manifest failure’

The UK’s sacked home secretary Suella Braverman went scorched earth on former ally Rishi Sunak, calling the prime minster a ‘manifest failure’.

Former British Home Secretary Suella Braverman has accused Prime Rishi Sunak of “weak leadership” and betraying the nation in a stinging letter one day after she was sacked.

The former home secretary, who was asked to resign from her post, claimed in her resignation letter to the Prime Minister that he had “manifestly and repeatedly failed” to help her deliver her policies.

She claimed he never planned on taking the action required to stop the boats.

Writing to the Prime Minister, she he had “manifestly and repeatedly failed to deliver on every single one of these key policies.”

“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,” she said. “Someone needs to be honest: your plan is not working, we have endured record election defeats, your resets have failed and we are running out of time.

“You need to change course urgently.”

Ms Braverman claimed the PM had reneged on a deal they had brokered when she backed his leadership bid last year.

She said he agreed to reduce overall legal migration, get tougher on stopping the boats, and protect single sex spaces.

Suella Braverman slammed prime minister Rishi Sunak as a weak leader who maifestly and repeatedly failed. Picture: AFP

But in a withering assessment, she raged: “You have manifestly and repeatedly failed to deliver on every single one of these key policies.”

Attacking his reluctance to overrule ECHR migration judgements, she said: “Your rejection of this path was not merely a betrayal of our agreement, but a betrayal of your promise to the nation that you would do ‘whatever it takes’ to stop the boats.”

Downing Street insisted ministers had been drawing up contingency plans in the event of defeat on the Rwanda ruling.

“If we lose in the Supreme Court, an outcome that I have consistently argued we must be prepared for, you will have wasted a year and an Act of Parliament, only to arrive back at square one,” Ms Braverman said.

“Worse than this, your magical thinking – believing that you can will your way through this without upsetting polite opinion – has meant you have failed to prepare any sort of credible ‘Plan B’.”

Mr Sunak had sacked Ms Braverman after she was accused of inflaming tensions over Armistice Day protests and saying police favoured leftwing protesters.

She had sparked outrage by claiming that Metropolitan Police favouritism had stopped far-right protests but permitted “pro-Palestinian mobs” to rally, ahead of the Gaza march set to take place on Armistice Day.

She had also doubled down on the comments on Sunday night, claiming Britain’s streets were being “polluted by hate, violence, and antisemitism”.

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British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has sacked Suella Braverman as Home Secretary after she was accused of inflaming tensions over Armistice Day protests and saying police favoured left wing protesters.

Her dismissal is set to form part of a wider reshuffle of Mr Sunak’s cabinet with Thérèse Coffey, the environment secretary, and Steve Barclay, the health secretary, believed to also be in the firing line.

“It has been the greatest privilege of my life to serve as home secretary … I will have more to say in due course,” Braverman announced.

James Cleverly was seen entering Downing Street on Monday and was appointed new Home Secretary, while former Prime Minister David Cameron was appointed new foreign secretary. Jeremy Hunt has been tipped to be moved as chancellor.

Australia’s former foreign affairs minister Julie Bishop was quick to congratulate Mr Cameron on his surprise appointment, saying it was a “brilliant choice”.

Two junior ministers, the schools minister Nick Gibb and the health minister Neil O’Brien, announced they were stepping down from their roles.

Ms Braverman’s sacking will be heralded by some Tory MPs who say the Prime Minister should have fired her when she controversially accused police of failing to do enough to tackle ‘hateful’ pro Palestinian protesters last week.

British leader Rishi Sunak appointed ex-PM Cameron as foreign secretary. Picture: AFP

Her dismissal comes after she sparked outrage by claiming that the metropolitan police favouritism had stopped far-right protests but permitted “pro-Palestinian mobs” to rally, ahead of the Gaza march set to take place on Armistice Day.

She had doubled down on the comments on Sunday night, claiming Britain’s streets were being “polluted by hate, violence, and antisemitism”.

Suella Braverman has been fired as home secretary by the British PM. Picture: AFP

But, in a statement after Armistice Day commemorations were disrupted by far-right thugs, Ms Braverman made no direct reference to the far-right in her statement, condemning only the “protesters and counter protesters”.

It is the second time Braverman has been forced out of the same job in little more than a year. Former prime minister Liz Truss ordered her to step down in October last year after only weeks in the job, for sending confidential information to an MP from a private email address.

The direct trigger for the sacking was an unauthorised article for last Thursday’s Times, in which Braverman claimed there was “a perception that senior police officers play favourites when it comes to protesters” and were tougher on right wing extremists than pro-Palestinian “mobs”.

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