Home Office official ‘has to work 10 times harder than white counterparts’.
Dame Priti Patel, a former home secretary, tells Telegraph comments are ‘divisive’ and ‘insulting to vast majority of civil servants’
A senior official told Home Office staff she has to work “10 times harder” than her white colleagues during a lecture discussing race.
The senior official told colleagues: “When we log in at nine o’clock, we already had to deal with a lot of psychological stuff just so that we need to give ourselves up to work. I have to work 10 times harder than my white counterparts, not getting the credit that I deserve.”
Dame Priti Patel told The Telegraph the comments were “divisive” and “insulting to the vast majority of civil servants... to suggest that because of the colour of their skin they receive better treatment”.
The former Home Secretary said: “Home Office officials should not be subject to lectures promoting critical race theory and radical rhetoric claiming some races have to work harder than others to succeed. This woke navel-gazing is divisive, disruptive and far from impartial.”
