Thread: PM's adviser on ministerial code resigns over his advice on Priti Patel being ignored
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Old 20-11-2020, 20:30   #60
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Re: PM's adviser on ministerial code resigns over his advice on Priti Patel being ign
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 View Post
I have sympathy with her if she wasn't informed of her bad behaviour at the time, but breaking Ministerial Code is breaking Ministerial Code and this over-ruling doesn't send the right message out to the country.
Hmm, contradictory evidence now arising which says she was advised about her behaviour before.
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Priti Patel was advised to treat staff with respect, says former official

Priti Patel was "advised" on several occasions to treat staff with respect, a former top official who resigned over the issue has told the BBC.

Sir Philip Rutnam said she was urged not to shout and swear at staff a month after becoming home secretary in 2019.

He said he was not asked to contribute to the inquiry into her conduct, which found she broke the ministerial code but was not made "aware" of concerns.

The home secretary has apologised for any "upset" she caused people.

But she insisted the inquiry's findings had made clear that "issues were not pointed out" to her in the course of the department's "deeply challenging" work.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-55015493
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