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‘She should step down now’: Labour leads calls for Home Secretary Patel to resign over bullying allegations

‘She should step down now’: Labour leads calls for Home Secretary Patel to resign over bullying allegations

The Labour Party has called on UK Home Secretary Priti Patel to step down from her role and an independent inquiry to be launched, following bullying allegations leveled against her.

In an interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today program, Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott insisted Patel should quit her post while a “genuinely independent inquiry” into her conduct as a government minister takes place.

It comes following the recent resignation of the Home Office’s top civil servant and Patel’s permanent secretary Sir Philip Rutnam. It also emerged on Monday that a former aide of the under fire minister received a £25,000 payout after allegedly being bullied in 2015 by Patel, the then-junior employment minister.

Abbott said that in light of these recent revelations it would be right that Patel take herself out of the limelight while an investigation takes place.

Other high profile Labour politicians have also weighed in. Tottenham MP David Lammy claimed on Twitter that the latest bullying allegations against Patel suggested that her “misconduct” is “not a one-off,” adding: “If they are true, she must be sacked.”


Some appeared skeptical that PM Boris Johnson would actually fire Patel, with playwright Bonnie Greer joking that he’ll “probably kick her upstairs [the House of Lords] and make her Baroness Patel of Prattle.”

While others online highlighted the fact that this was not the first time Patel has become embroiled in controversy. In November 2017 the then-international development secretary resigned following “unauthorised” meetings with Israeli politicians.

On Saturday Rutnam told reporters that he was hit with “completely false” allegations of briefing the media against his boss. The ex-official noted that Patel denied her involvement in these attacks but said that he does not believe her.

He told the BBC he will sue the government for constructive dismissal, alleging that he was effectively forced out of office. The abrupt resignation came after a series of reports about Patel “bullying” subordinates out of jobs and creating an “atmosphere of fear” inside the department.

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