Revealing that she received insulting emails calling her “racist …” because of politics, even though she is the daughter of Ugandan Indian immigrants in Britain, she added: “They seem to be the voice minority. I always think that the silent, hard-working majority just wants the government of the day to take over and get the job done. “
Defending Rwanda, which has a history of genocide, corruption and human rights abuses, she added: “The past is appalling, but it has marked the country in the sense that they are recovering.
“If it was France, if we sent people to Sweden, New York, Sydney, would we? [the critics] change their minds? This is actually about built-in prejudice, and I would even go so far as to say racism.
Ms. Patel, 50, also seems skeptical about the Treasury’s approach to the cost of living crisis, saying: “In my DNA, it’s philosophical that our role is to put more money in people’s pockets by taxing it. less with taxes. There are many taxes that can be reduced. “
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