When Priti Patel arrived at the Home Office staff knew what to expect. The Conservative MP already had a reputation for wearing sharply-cut suits and wielding even more sharply-cut elbows.
Some ministers inspire loyalty, others are a cause for despair. In Whitehall, Ms Patel was known for inciting another kind of reaction – fear.
In her apology yesterday, she said: “I am direct and have at times got frustrated.” Civil servants will claim this is the understatement of the year.
As the ambitious Brexiteer worked her way up the ministerial ladder she started to amass what many would regard as a disproportionate number of complaints about her behaviour.
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