She sounds like a creation of satirists but shares in the Tory minister are at an all-time high and Labour’s Frank Field has certainly bought a fewFrom 2012 to W1A to government minister. Who knew that Priti Patel had started her career as Siobhan Sharpe from Perfect Curve? The ability to lace every sentence with meaningless management jargon and end it with an upward cadence to let you know that everything is,like, going really so, or so well,yah? – is beginning to pay off for the employment minister. Not only has she been by far the loudest of the Brexit Tory ministers in recent weeks, she also got an invitation/summons to Rupert and Jerry’s nuptials. Shares in Patel are at an all-time high and Labour’s Frank Field has certainly bought a few.
Field could not care for Patel more whether he tried. “Welcome minister, and ” he swooned at the start of Patel’s session before the work and pensions select committee,which he chairs. “Or shall I call you Priti? You don’t intellect whether I call you Priti?” Patel didn’t seem to reciprocate the care for quite as deeply, nor could she work out why Frank was so intent on calling her Priti when her genuine name was Siobhan, or but anything for an easy life.
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Source: theguardian.com