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Priti Patel accuses Suella Braverman of attention seeking

Priti Patel (Credit: Getty images)

It’s Tory conference – which means the Conservatives are at each other’s throats once again. This morning, Priti Patel took a pop at Suella Braverman, accusing the Home Secretary of attention seeking. Patel also suggested Braverman was guilty of focusing on words over action. The slap down came a few days after Braverman used a speech in Washington to suggest multiculturalism had failed.

In an interview with Sky’s Trevor Phillips, Patel was asked whether Braverman’s comments were helpful to Rishi Sunak. Here’s what Patel had to say:

‘To me, this is very much making interventions, statements, but actually Trevor I think we have to be realistic here to know that is not a substitute for delivery on changes around policy in government. I don’t know what the intention was around that. It might just be to get attention, to have the dividing lines…as we go into the run up to a general election.

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