Deluded Priti Patel is sending out Christmas cards in which she sits on top of a tree as a fairy magicking up deportations.
A caricature of the former Home Secretary shows her waving her wand over baubles inscribed with areas she pledged to improve or implement, including “Law and Order”, “Beating Crime Plan” and recruiting “20,000 more police”.
In a bizarre detail, her beloved ally Boris Johnson sits at the bottom of the tree as a bare-footed gooey-eyed toddler playing with a present.
A second card design Ms Patel is sending shows a stack of presents decorated with tags that include: “Expanded Taser Use”, “Oven-Ready Brexit ” and “12,000 FNOs [Foreign National Offenders] deported”.
Her portrait of tasering more people as being a gift at Christmas comes just months after a man died after being tasered on a bridge.
Labour hit out after Ms Patel used sensitive, real-life problems - including seeking asylum, victim support and violence against women and girls - as part of a cartoon.
A Labour source said: “Given that Priti Patel ’s Tory legacy is record low arrest and charge rates against criminals and record high dangerous boat crossings you’d think she’d want to hide under the Christmas tree, not claim to be the fairy on top of it.
"Even Christmas cards can’t escape from the chaos and in-fighting in the Tory Party.”
Despite suggesting she had magical powers to fix all Home Office-related issues, Ms Patel leaves behind a record mired in controversy.
This includes her failure to tackle “Stop & Search” measures disproportionately impacting ethnic minorities.
A report published when Ms Patel was Home Secretary found that a black child was searched more than 60 times between the ages of 14 and 16. The practice was described as “humiliating” and “traumatic”, rather than a Christmas gift.
Ms Patel, who served as head of the Home Office for three years when Mr Johnson was Prime Minister, labelled another present as the “National and Borders Bill” while the central bauble on her Christmas tree card said “Rwanda”.
Thousands of desperate people are still arriving on British shores, and dozens have died risking the dangerous journey due to a lack of safe and legal routes to get to the UK.
Further to this, Ms Patel’s controversial plan to send those who have arrived via the Channel to Rwanda has been embroiled in arguments over human rights, with charities having claimed asylum s eekers facing deportation to Rwanda include “torture victims” with “severe PTSD”.
Another bauble celebrates her pledge to recruit 20,000 more police officers.
But this summer MPs warned that the Home Office faced “significant challenges” in fulfilling the promise.
The cards have been circulating around parliament for politicians, journalists and other members of staff.
