The Home Secretary has defended the decision to leave London for a meet and greet with police officers, saying it was part of her “statutory duties”. Priti Patel said it was wrong to compare her journey to Hertfordshire and the Prime Minister’s trip to Scotland during the pandemic with foreign travel made by so-called influencers. The Home Secretary has repeatedly criticised those who appeared to be using their fame for creating content on social media as an excuse simply to go on holiday. She spent just over an hour in Bishop’s Stortford on Thursday afternoon, where she met six new recruits, a chief constable, neighbourhood beat officers and local Tory MP Julie Marson.
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The Home Secretary has defended the decision to leave London for a meet and greet with police officers, saying it was part of her “statutory duties”. Priti Patel said it was wrong to compare her journey to Hertfordshire and the Prime Minister’s trip to Scotland during the pandemic with foreign travel made by so-called influencers. The Home Secretary has repeatedly criticised those who appeared to be using their fame for creating content on social media as an excuse simply to go on holiday. She spent just over an hour in Bishop’s Stortford on Thursday afternoon, where she met six new recruits, a chief constable, neighbourhood beat officers and local Tory MP Julie Marson.
THE Welsh First Minister has said it is preferable for people who make coronavirus rules to observe them, following Boris Johnson s visit to Scotland to promote the Union this week. Mark Drakeford was responding to a question on whether the Prime Minister would be welcome in Wales after his trip to a Lighthouse Laboratory in Glasgow on Thursday prompted a row on whether it was an essential journey. Mr Drakeford told the Welsh Government s press briefing on Friday: I myself have left Cardiff I think twice since November. I went once to the Rhondda, where a coal tip had slipped, and I went once last weekend to Skewen where major flooding had taken place.