RISHI SUNAK was accused today of supporting Tory cronyism by failing to block the honours lists of his predecessors as he repeatedly ignored calls for a general election.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer challenged the Prime Minister to “finally find somebody, anybody, anywhere to vote for him” amid his public spat with Boris Johnson.

Tory civil war erupted after Downing Street published Mr Johnson’s honours list on Friday without the names of his allies, the former culture secretary Nadine Dorries and former minister Nigel Adams.

At Prime Minister’s Questions, Sir Keir said: “Honours should be for public service — not Tory cronies.

“All across the country people are worried about their bills, the price of the weekly shops and their mortgage rates, so why has the Tory Party spent the last week arguing over which of them gets a peerage?

“He was too weak to [entirely] block Johnson’s list and that also means that those who spent their time helping cover up Johnson’s law-breaking are rewarded by becoming law-makers for the rest of their lives.

“And it’s not just Johnson, the Prime Minister’s immediate predecessor [Liz Truss] is hoping to reward those who made her reign such a rip-roaring success.”

Sir Keir said Ms Truss’s list included “the economic extremists of the Institute of Economic Affairs” behind her “kamikaze budget that crashed the economy and left the country to pick up the pieces.”

“If he spent as much time focused on the economy, the NHS and the asylum system as he does haggling with his predecessors about who gets honours then the country would be in a far better state,” he said.

He added Mr Sunak had “lost control” of his party and urged him to call a general election now.

Mr Sunak ignored the call as he insisted he had followed “the process to the letter.”

Mr Johnson quit as MP hours after his peerage list was published and after receiving an advanced copy of the privileges committee report that he lied to Parliament over partygate.

Ms Dorries and Mr Adams said they would stand down as MPs and Mr Johnson’s allies accused Mr Sunak of having “secretly blocked” her and other allies’ peerages.

The PM claimed his predecessor had asked him to ignore the recommendations of the House of Lords appointment commission. Mr Johnson said he was talking “rubbish.”