ANALYSIS MARTYN BROWN

IF IT was ever in any doubt, Liz Truss has lost control of her government.

In the space of five days she has been forced to sack a Chancellor, humiliated into binning her tax-cutting economic master plan and lost a Home Secretary.

Her Chief Whip Wendy Morton also threatened to quit, a key Downing Street adviser suspended while other ministers are said to be on resignation watch.

The empire Ms Truss has built in just 43 days is crumbling all around her.

Kwasi Kwarteng was sacrificed after last month’s calamitous mini-Budget which sent the markets tumbling and trashed the Conservative Party’s economic reputation.

He was replaced by Jeremy Hunt who has spent the first 120 hours of his new role effectively running the country.

Now, rabble-rousing Home Secretary Suella Braverman has been given the boot over two data breaches.

The Brexiteer – who is named after Sue-Ellen Ewing from the 1980s American television soap Dallas – attacked Ms Truss saying she has concerns over the direction of the Government.

And the darling of the Tory Right could prove to be a deadly thorn in the side of the Prime Minister if she continues to limp on.

Her replacement is the Rishi Sunak-backing veteran Grant Shapps, seemingly hired by none other than Mr Hunt himself.

Although the financial markets appeared to have calmed in recent days the storm gathering around the Prime Minister is getting worse.

Unlike the hit show Dallas about a family oil empire this is no bad dream for Ms Truss, she’s not going to wake up one morning to find all her problems have gone.

As most people in Westminster are now saying it’s a question of when, not if, she will be the next member of the Government to leave their post.

To do that the Tory party needs to decide, very quickly, who it wants to succeed her.