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The powerlessness of Priti Patel

6 October 2021

1:30 AM

6 October 2021

1:30 AM

It is hard not to feel sorry for Priti Patel. She would surely have been a Tory conference darling at the gathering that never happened back in autumn 2020 at the height of the pandemic.

Back then she always came towards the top of cabinet ministers’ popularity in the monthly survey conducted by the Conservative Home website.

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