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Episode 20: Priti Patel refuses to apologise for record migration as Home Secretary

Season 1, Ep. 20

The Conservatives do not have to apologise for allowing millions of migrants to move to the UK in the party's final years in power, Dame Priti Patel says today.


The former Home Secretary who is one of six Tory MPs standing to replace Rishi Sunak as leader said it was "lazy" to suggest net migration was too high.


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