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Swinson: No 10 must answer questions over Patel

By Caron Lindsay | Wed 8th November 2017 - 8:51 pm

I have to say, I’m not unhappy to see the back of Priti Patel from Government. I have never forgiven her for caving to pressure and withdrawing funding from an innovative and successful project which changed attitudes and behaviour, protecting girls from harassment and violence. She can’t protect women and girls from violence, but she’s happy to talk about using our aid budget to help out an occupying army against government policy.

It’s quite astounding that Patel wasn’t sacked when the initial revelations about her behaviour came out at the weekend.

Jo Swinson said that there still questions for No 10 …

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Posted in Op-eds | Also tagged boris johnson, chaos, Priti Patel and what a disaster of a government | 17 Comments

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