The former home secretary has given a wide-ranging interview to Sky News in which she spoke about the current economic situation, the Metropolitan Police's reaction to the Sarah Everard murder and receiving death threats.
Asked if the vigil, where women were manhandled and arrested, was the beginning of the end for the then-Met Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick, Ms Patel said:"It was a range of things, it wasn't just the one incident, appalling though it was.Advertisement
She said she did not fire Dame Cressida straight away after that as she felt it was the whole Met Police leadership team that was failing women - and she brought them in to find out what was happening. The MP for Witham, 50, added:"Let's be honest, since then we've learnt so much about the Metropolitan Police about conduct, attitudes."Priti Patel resigns as home secretaryMs Patel also spoke about receiving"consistent levels of harassment and abuse" over the 12 years she has been an MP.
She said that has ranged from intimidation and unkind things to people following her home and death threats."It provides pause for thought, there's no doubt about that but I came into politics because I believe in public service - I'm very old fashioned in that sense that I do believe in public service."
Ms Patel said there has also been abuse within parliament, with MPs saying she has"no right to speak out on certain issues because of the colour of my skin" - which she said was"unacceptable"."People know that I'm a Hindu and of Indian origin, that was completely unacceptable but yet a national newspaper felt they could do that and it was in the public interest," she added.
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