Priti Patel’s never one to shilly-shally when it comes to getting stuck in to her opponents.
She’s much like a cage fighter in that respect.
Go low, go hard and go early tends to be her mantra.
Sweep the legs away, kick ’em right in the glockenspiels.
Then stand back and see how they squeal.
Such were her tactics yesterday on day two of the week-long Queen’s Speech debate.
She was leading the Government’s case for its law and order proposals.
The Home Secretary rose to the dispatch box looking more bling-bling than Zsa Zsa Gabor after a trip down Rodeo Drive – white skirt and jacket, clunky watch, her wrists and neck dripping with pearls.
Almost immediately she declared the Conservatives were the ‘party of law and order’.
Puckering one of those sharp eyebrows, she added: ‘Those on the benches opposite prefer to defend the murderers, rapists, thugs and paedophiles who have no right to be here…’
From Labour’s benches came an eruption of outrage. Carnage.
Perched opposite Priti was her shadow, Yvette Cooper, whose face until that point had been buried in her mobile phone.