Priti Patel will tell criminals today “we are coming after you” as she seeks to reassert the Tories’ reputation as the “party of law and order”. In a keynote speech at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, the home secretary will invoke Margaret Thatcher as she says that the Conservatives “understand” the priorities of the British people. In an attack on Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the Labour Party and MP for Islington North, she will say that she needs “no lectures from the north London metropolitan liberal elite”. Invoking her own background as the daughter of immigrants, she will say: “Margaret Thatcher knew that if you made the British people your compass, if you took time to understand their lives and their priorities, then…

Source: The Times September 30, 2019 23:02 UTC