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Watch: MP refuses to withdraw comments after Priti Patel called it a ‘slur’

"I was already being too polite," she has since said in response to Patel.

Joe Mellor by Joe Mellor
2022-06-16 11:38
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Priti Patel has insisted the Government will press ahead with its plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda despite an 11th-hour legal ruling by a European court which halted the first departure.

The Home Secretary said she was surprised by the European Court of Human Rights’ intervention, overruling domestic judicial decisions, but told MPs it was “inevitable” there would be legal challenges to the Government’s policy.

In an apparent reference to the human rights lawyers who have repeatedly taken on the Government, she told MPs that “the usual suspects” had set out to “thwart” the plan.

She wasn’t happy about it, as you can see from the Daily Express front page.

Thursday's front page: Dame Deborah's winning smile at Ascot #TomorrowsPapersToday

All the beautiful pictures: https://t.co/I83BtULqlF pic.twitter.com/3v42EsNk0R

— Daily Express (@Daily_Express) June 15, 2022

However, during a debate in the Commons about the Rwanda flight yesterday, Labour MP Zarah Sultana said that Priti Patel lacked compassion.

Patel stood up and asked her to withdraw it.

As you can see Sultana has no intention of apologising for her comments.

In Parliament, I just told Priti Patel that if she had an ounce of compassion, she would abandon her disgraceful plan to deport refugees to Rwanda.

She asked me to withdraw this "slur" against her.

Let me say again @PritiPatel: This policy again shows you lack basic compassion.

— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) June 15, 2022

Since then Zarah Sultana tweeted: “Priti Patel said it was a “slur” when I told her she lacked compassion and called for me withdraw it. I didn’t and I won’t: I was already being too polite.”

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Priti Patel said it was a “slur” when I told her she lacked compassion, and called for me withdraw it.

I didn't and I won't: I was already being too polite. pic.twitter.com/zkynFtrWk9

— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) June 15, 2022

Related: Watch: Quentin Letts takes a huff on GMB as he is called out on Rwanda flights

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