Priti Patel, Britain's hardline home secretary, is under renewed scrutiny following the deaths of dozens of people in the English Channel
But Patel is accustomed to scrutiny. Even in Britain's fractured political landscape, few lawmakers are as intensely polarizing as Patel, who has held key jobs in successive Conservative governments and whose name has been floated as a potential successor to Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Then, last year, an investigation into claims Patel had bullied staff found that she did not" her civil servants with consideration and respect," and had committed"behaviour that can be described as bullying.
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