Priti Patel sends Christmas card depicting herself as fairy magicking up deportations to Rwanda

Former Home Secretary ‘would have sent Jesus, Mary and Joseph to Rwanda’, opposition MPs say

Priti Patel has been accused of lacking “basic human decency” after sending out a Christmas card showing her as a fairy magicking up deportations to Rwanda.

The card, sent out to the former Home Secretary's political contacts, features a caricature of Ms Patel sitting atop a Christmas Tree with a magic wand.

Lying below her are baubles including a points-based immigration system, "national security", and "Rwanda" – a reference to her controversial policy of flying asylum seekers to sub-saharan Africa.