Inquiry Head Resigns After PM Says Priti Patel Not a Bully

Inquiry Head Resigns After PM Says Priti Patel Not a Bully
File photo shows Priti Patel, now Britain's home secretary, leaving after a cabinet meeting in Downing Street, London, on June 27, 2016. Toby Melville/Reuters
Mary Clark
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Britain’s ministerial code adviser has resigned after Prime Minister Boris Johnson overrode his findings and said that Home Secretary Priti Patel did not breach the code on bullying and harassment.

In a long-awaited report (pdf) out on Friday Johnson’s independent adviser, Sir Alex Allan concluded that Patel had not “consistently met” with the “high standards” of the ministerial code.