Priti Patel

Priti Patel, 2020

Priti Patel (born March 29, 1972 in London ) is a British politician of the Conservative Party . She was from May 2015 to the July 13, 2016 Minister of Labor in the Cabinet Cameron II and was subsequently Minister for International Development in the Cabinet of Theresa May . On November 8, 2017, she announced her resignation. She has been the British Home Secretary in the Boris Johnson I cabinet since July 25, 2019 .

Life

Patel grew up in South Harrow and Ruislip . Her parents of Indian descent - the family comes from the state of Gujarat - came to Hertfordshire from Uganda in the 1960s , a few years before Idi Amin came to power in the African country and many of the Indians and Pakistanis brought to the country by the British colonial powers expelled. She attended a girls' school in Watford and then studied economics, sociology and social biology at Keele University and the University of Essex .

She is married and has a son.

Political career

Seat in the lower house

In the 2010 general election Patel won a seat as a deputy in the constituency Witham in the county of Essex and moved to the House of Commons one. She has since defended her seat in the 2015 and 2017 elections . She spoke regularly in Parliament on defense issues.

Cameron's cabinet

In May 2015 she was appointed Minister for Labor by David Cameron. In the Cameron government, she was one of the minority cabinet ministers who spoke out in favor of Brexit in the debate on EU membership . As a justification, she cited the possibility of spending more money on schools and the NHS , but could not give exact figures when asked.

Cabinet May

In the cabinet of Prime Minister Theresa May from July 13, 2016, she received the post of Minister for International Development and initially also held this position in the May II cabinet .

Controversy over talks with Israeli politicians and resignation as minister

Patel came under political pressure in early November 2017 after it became known that she had a total of twelve meetings with Israeli government officials, including Benjamin Netanyahu , during a 13-day vacation in Israel in August 2017, without consulting the government . She had also tried to apply for funds from the British government to support relief operations by the Israeli army , but failed at the State Department , which refused to approve aid in the region because of the occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights . According to observers, the meetings with top Israeli politicians and the attempt to provide Israel with funds were part of similar measures after Patel's authority had significantly reduced support for the Palestinian territories the previous year and, among other things, the British share in the EU financed pay for employees of the Palestinian Authority . Patel had to answer to Prime Minister May on November 6, 2017 for the violation of the protocol and apologized.

The following day it was revealed that Patel had kept silent about her exploration of possible aid funds for humanitarian operations by the Israeli army and two other meetings with Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Gilad Erdan and Yuval Rotem , a senior official with the Israeli Foreign Ministry.

Patel was ordered back from another business trip from Africa on November 8, 2017; after a brief conversation at Theresa May's official residence, she submitted her resignation. Her ministerial office was taken over by Penny Mordaunt , previously State Secretary in the Department for Work and Pensions .

Johnson cabinet

On July 24, 2019, in the wake of Theresa May's resignation, Patel was appointed to the new Boris Johnson I cabinet , where she will take over the office of Home Secretary. The appeal was controversial because of Patel's earlier advocacy of reintroducing the death penalty, among other things.

In February 2020, it was announced that Patel had apparently bullied employees in the Ministry of the Interior, which led to the resignation of Home Office boss Sir Philip Rutnam with high media attention.

Political positions

Priti Patel is considered a supporter of Thatcherism and is assigned to the right wing of the Conservative Party. She was an advocate of the reintroduction of the death penalty as a deterrent until she declared in 2016 that she would no longer hold that position.

In 2013, Patel voted against the introduction of same-sex marriage . Critics accused her of lobbying for the tobacco and alcohol industries. For example, she rejected the introduction of standard packaging for tobacco products.

Web links

Commons : Priti Patel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography in Debrett's People of Today

Individual evidence

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11. ^ Francis Elliott: Abandon ship, Patel urges in attack on EU. The Times, March 3, 2016, accessed March 3, 2016 . 
12. ↑ Priti Patel struggles to explain how UK would spend cash not sent to EU. In: The Guardian , June 14, 2016
13. ↑ Theresa May's cabinet: Who's in and who's out? In: BBC News. July 13, 2016, accessed on July 17, 2016 . 
14. ^ Rob Merrick: Priti Patel set to be sacked after 'misleading Theresa May' over more secret Israeli meetings. In: The Independent , November 8, 2017
15. ↑ Donald Macintyre: Could Priti Patel's secret meetings in Israel signal a shift in British foreign policy? In: The Independent , November 7, 2017
16. ↑ ^{a b} Resignation of Minister Patel: Theresa May loses another cabinet member , on rp-online.de, on November 9, 2017. Retrieved on November 10, 2017.
17. ^ Rajeev Syal, Anushka Asthana: Priti Patel forced to resign over unofficial meetings with Israelis. In: The Guardian , November 8, 2017
18. ↑ Problems in the cabinet: May's stumbling blocks . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 8, 2017. Accessed November 10, 2017.
19. ^ Theresa May loses next cabinet member. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 8, 2017
20. ^ Priti Patel forced to resign over unofficial meetings with Israelis. In: theguardian.com , November 8, 2017
21. ^ Joe Watts: "Penny Mordaunt replaces Priti Patel as International Development Secretary following Israel meeting scandal". In: The Independent , November 9, 2017
22. ^ "Boris Johnson: new PM takes his revenge and sacks over half the cabinet" The Guardian, July 25, 2019
23. ↑ Jamie Grierson, "Priti Patel's record on human rights prompts' extreme concern" " The Guardian, July 25, 2019
24. ↑ Great Britain: Home Secretary Priti Patel has to answer for bullying. Retrieved March 2, 2020 . 
25. ↑ Home Office boss quits over 'campaign against him' . In: BBC News . February 29, 2020 ( bbc.com [accessed March 2, 2020]).
26. ^ Rowena Mason: Tory rightwinger Priti Patel promoted to Treasury . The Guardian. July 15, 2014. Retrieved July 25, 2019.
27. ↑ Michael Savage: Patel backtracks on support for the death penalty . The Times. September 15, 2016. Retrieved July 25, 2019.
28. ↑ Jamie Doward: Tory cigarette packaging rebel Priti Patel is ex-tobacco lobbyist . The Guardian. May 3, 2014. Retrieved July 25, 2019.