Watch: Priti Patel schools Zarah Sultana

Tories up and down the country should be celebrating tonight after it was revealed that walking CCHQ advert Zarah Sultana has kept her seat intact in the report by the Boundary Commission. The hard left MP has served as a Conservative recruiting agent since 2019 when the 27-year-old squeaked home in Coventry South by just 401 votes – down from some 7,947 her Labour predecessor Jim Cunningham managed just two years earlier.

And this afternoon Sultana gave us some indication as to why she hemorrhaged votes to such an extent at the last election. Popping up today at Home Office oral questions, Sultana asked Priti Patel about detention conditions for asylum seekers at Napier barracks. The Campaign Group mainstay told Patel she would give her ‘the facts,’ claiming:

In January I asked the Home Secretary about Napier barracks, highlighting the unsafe, inhumane conditions. She told me ‘to listen to the facts.’ Well, here are the facts.