Home Secretary Priti Patel is very right-wing. This is probably the only thing you really need to know about her. She is also member of the MCC,(think Lords cricket ground) but even though they are generally thought to be a somewhat conservative body, even they are not responsible for Ms Patel’s views.
Patel has opined that while she supports the right to protest, she does not support Black Lives Matter, taking the knee and so on.
This places her at odds with many sporting institutions, large businesses and trade unions, all of whom for various reasons do support BLM.
I doubt Priti Patel cares about that but there is a wider historical reality which is that Home Secretary’s do tend to be very right-wing.
Perhaps the only significant post-1945 exception was Roy Jenkins. Tory Home Secretaries have not been noted for their liberal approach to anything. Labour holders of the Office while sometimes better on detail also tend to be very right-wing and particularly careless about the democratic rights and liberties that would not exist at all without the labour movement.
Of course Ms Patel’s thoughts on BLM are just another shot in the Tory Culture Wars. I’m not sure she is particularly competent even at that fairly easy to master activity though.
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