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Patel sends out ‘bizarre’ Christmas card celebrating Rwanda deportations
Former Home Secretary Priti Patel

PRITI PATEL has been accused of “losing all sense of humanity” after sending out Christmas cards celebrating Rwanda deportations. 

The disturbing image depicts the former home secretary as a cartoon fairy on top of a Christmas tree bearing baubles inscribed with her “achievements” this year. 

In pride of place is the UK-Rwanda migration pact, a policy she devised with former PM Boris Johnson, who also features on the card as a bare-footed child, eagerly awaiting to unwrap a pile of presents. 

The deportation deal, which was found to be lawful by the High Court earlier this week, has been described as “morally reprehensible” and “inhumane” by rights groups. 

The policy has already caused “profound suffering,” according to charities, including suicide attempts by some asylum-seekers targeted for deportation. 

The cards have been sent to some staff and journalists in Parliament this year. Other baubles on the tree are inscribed with the phrases: “points system,” “law and order,” “beating crime plan,” and “national security.” 

Responding to the card, refugee charity Care4Calais’s founder Clare Moseley said: “Christmas is the season of joy, goodwill and compassion yet Priti Patel has produced a Christmas card celebrating the potential forced deportation of war, torture and human rights victims to Rwanda. 

“It looks like the former home secretary has lost all sense of humanity, if she ever had any.”

Former shadow home secretary Diane Abbott branded the Christmas card “bizarre.”

Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Alistair Carmichael said: “This is the Christmas card of someone who read the nativity story and thought King Herod had the right idea.

“If Priti Patel had been around, Mary, Joseph and Jesus would have been on their way to Rwanda before the three wise men could arrive.”

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