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Mind your language

Was Priti Patel really ‘gaslighting’ MPs?

20 June 2020

9:00 AM

20 June 2020

9:00 AM

Gaslight has been a useful word meaning ‘to manipulate a person by psychological means into questioning his or her own sanity’, as the OED defines it. Last week saw it change meaning.

In parliament, Florence Eshalomi asked Priti Patel whether she understood the ‘anger and frustration felt by so many people’ involved in Black Lives Matter protests.

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