Priti Patel enters Tory leadership race saying 'time to put unity before personal vendetta' (news.sky.com)

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Former home secretary Dame Priti Patel has said it is "time to put unity before personal vendetta" as she threw her hat into the ring for the Tory party leadership.

Entering the increasingly crowded field to replace Rishi Sunak, the senior Conservative MP laid the blame for their worst-ever defeat on 4 July not on the "heroic" party members, but the politicians who "fell out and left us short".

Dame Priti is the fifth candidate but the first woman to formally announce she is joining the race for the top job, with Mel Stride, Tom Tugendhat, James Cleverly and Robert Jenrick already having declared.

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[-] Theme 9 points 9 months ago

Lmao

At least Tory MPs will be easier to unite now, given that there's fuck all of them

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 8 points 9 months ago

Dame?! We really still doing the thing where British toffs have to be cartoonishly evil like we’re living in a Mel Gibson film?

[-] cupcakezealot 7 points 9 months ago

hilarious considering every tory has a personal vendetta against trans people existing

[-] inspectorst@feddit.uk 7 points 9 months ago

What's astonishing here is that Priti Patel is only about the third or fourth most lunatic extremist of the current set of candidates...

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