The UK’s Home Secretary Priti Patel revealed on Tuesday that she had argued for border closure in March 2020, soon after the CCP virus epidemic in China became a global pandemic. In a video call recording obtained by Guido Fawkes, Patel was heard telling the Conservative Friends of India group that she thought the UK should’ve closed its border earlier. “On ‘should we have closed our borders earlier,’ the answer is yes. I was an advocate of closing them last March,” she said. Nigel Farage, leader of the Reform UK, formally the Brexit Party, said in a tweet: “What a pity Boris Johnson didn’t listen to Priti Patel.” When asked why he had overruled Patel, the Prime Minister told Parliament that his government instituted one of the toughest border regimes in the world, and it’s now more important to roll out the vaccines. “We are getting on, Mr. speaker, with …
UK Home Secretary Reveals She Advocated for Border Closure Last March to Limit CCP Virus
January 20, 2021
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