Priti Patel`s balancing act as home secretary
(World News UK)

Priti Patel did not betray so much as a flicker of anger. Her voice was calm, her shoulders steady, and she bit her lip only very briefly before responding to black MP Florence Eshalomi`s emotional call for her to acknowledge and act on the fears raised by Black Lives Matter protesters taking to the streets. She was “saddened”, she told the House of Commons, to be accused of failing to understand: “It must have been a very different home secretary who as a child was frequently called a Paki in the playground; a very different home secretary who was racially abused in the streets, or even advised to drop her surname and use her husband`s in order to advance her career.” She needed no lessons...