Priti Patel

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Yet another Tory leadership battle is under way. But, outside of the six contenders, does anyone really care?

Tory in-fighting shows no signs of halting as Patel takes aim at her successor’s plans to house asylum seekers within spitting distance from her own constituency

Swallows can't exactly reflect on their actions. We, however, can think about if we're actually acting virtuously or not

A report on the scandal said Home Office staff should be trained in diversity.. but two years on, the number of staff trained is zero

After weeks of criticism over her department’s multiple failures, Priti Patel is brandishing her trademark smirk again after the passage of a series of laws that threaten basic freedoms at home and abroad

It makes more sense for the home secretary to send incoming asylum seekers to be “processed in” Mars than Rwanda

Priti Patel should take note of the way the West African nation embraces migrants

U-turns and new schemes are welcome, but Britain still isn’t welcoming to those fleeing conflict

The Home Office is in urgent need of fixing, and Priti Patel is not the woman for the task

Boris Johnson declared the UK is leading the way in its willingness to help refugees. Imagining then what Downing Street views as unwilling is incomprehensible

Priti Patel gets the full Geldof treatment at fundraising concert Night for Ukraine.

The crisis offers an opportunity for the UK and EU countries to realise that all people fleeing war and oppression are “like us”. It’s one that is unlikely to be seized

According to a group of refugee charities, the home secretary's Nationality and Borders Bill will almost double the cost

The home secretary was once a maverick outsider. She hasn’t changed, but the country has.

One spectator sport this summer has been watching politicians try to tie their fortunes to the England team. Such efforts are as doomed to failure as, ultimately, Gareth Southgate’s team was.

Control of the UK’s borders helped drive the Brexit vote. Now, Priti Patel must hope for European co-operation for her immigration clampdown The desire to have control over the UK’s borders was one of the strongest arguments for the Leave side to win the EU referendum. Now, five years on, the British government is determined to […]

Home secretary Priti Patel has said that British nationals living in Europe are having difficulty accessing benefits, services, and jobs. Patel accused the EU nations of hypocrisy and of treating Britons unfairly, exactly five years after the country voted to leave the bloc. She said that “a number of reported instances of UK nationals in […]

Priti Patel has said she does not support England’s footballers taking the knee in protest against racial injustice, labelling the act “gesture politics”. The home secretary did not condemn football fans who had booed players for taking the knee, calling it a “choice for them” after Gareth Southgate’s side faced jeers from a minority of […]

MPs are calling on home secretary Priti Patel to urgently publish an independent assessment of the impact of ending free movement. The government had committed to publishing documentation around the post-Brexit measures to end the freedom for EU citizens to travel freely to and from the UK at the end of last year. Home Office […]

An NHS worker who has spent the pandemic helping save lives on a Covid-19 ward says Priti Patel’s immigration plans will see refugees like her turned away from the UK. Mariam, from Eritrea, is determined to help people and has been working exhausting 12-hour shifts in a Leeds hospital assisting coronavirus patients, sometimes four days […]

Mitch Benn rounds up the worst of another week in politics, including Priti Patel, Grant Shapps and Ivanka Trump

Downing Street has confirmed plans to charge EU citizens and other foreign nationals to visit the UK. Home secretary Priti Patel said Monday that her department would legislation to introduce a new Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA), which she argued would help the government keep track of people entering and leaving the UK. ETAs will apply […]

Home secretary Priti Patel is vowing wholesale reform of the UK’s “broken” immigration system as she unveils plans for a “fully digital border” within five years. Patel is set to promise to deliver a system that works for the “law-abiding majority” and against those who seek to “abuse our hospitality and generous spirit”. She will […]

Home secretary Priti Patel has denied a claim by Dominic Cummings that the government’s original response to the coronavirus outbreak was to pursue a strategy of “herd immunity”. In a series of explosive tweets, the prime minister’s former top adviser said the policy – to build up resistance in the population by allowing some spread […]

A chief constable has called on Priti Patel and the Home Office to “stand back” from the policing agenda and allow officers to assert their independence. Staffordshire Police Chief Constable Gareth Morgan told the Times he was concerned home secretary Priti Patel had interfered in operational matters, which could create the impression “policing is seen […]

https://www.bestforbritain.org/citizendetentionA cross-party group of MPs have slammed Priti Patel’s detention of EU nationals at British airports following Brexit as “yet another shameful action by the Home Office in a long string of mistreatment of migrants and asylum seekers”. Last week reports surfaced of European citizens being handcuffed at airports, made to sleep in parked vans or prevented from […]

Priti Patel has been accused of a “flagrant breach” of the ministerial code by lobbying a fellow minister in an attempt to secure a healthcare firm access to a personal protective equipment (PPE) deal said to be worth £20 million. Labour has urged cabinet secretary Simon Case to investigate the home secretary over efforts to […]

A senior trade unionist has been suspended by Labour after suggesting home secretary Priti Patel should be deported. Unite’s assistant general secretary Howard Beckett – who is standing for the leadership of the major union – has apologised for the social media message. He sits on Labour’s ruling national executive committee and has now been […]

The UN has warned Priti Patel that her plans to overhaul the UK’s asylum seeker system by cracking down on the rights of refugees “risk breaching international law”. Back in March, the home secretary announced plans to give asylum seeker who enter the UK through irregular channels – such as crossing the Channel by boat – fewer […]

The government is pushing ahead with changes to electoral law that could make it easier for Conservatives to win future mayoral elections. Home secetary Priti Patel has already unveiled plans to introduce the first past the post electoral system used to elect MPs in Westminster. Mayors across England are elected from the existing supplementary vote […]