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'''Priti Patel''' (born 29 March 1972) is a British politician who has been the [[Member of Parliament]] (MP) for the Witham constituency in Essex since 2010. She served as [[Secretary of State for International Development]] from July 2016 to November 2017. A member of the [[Conservative Party]], she is regarded as being ideologically on the party's right-wing and has been described as a [[Margaret Thatcher|Thatcherite]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201516/cmhansrd/cm150519/debtext/150519-0001.htm |title=House of Commons Hansard Debates for 19 May 2015 (pt 0001) |publisher=Parliament of the United Kingdom |date=19 May 2015 |accessdate=4 July 2016}}</ref> | '''Priti Patel''' (born 29 March 1972) is a British politician who has been the [[Member of Parliament]] (MP) for the Witham constituency in Essex since 2010. She served as [[Secretary of State for International Development]] from July 2016 to November 2017. A member of the [[Conservative Party]], she is regarded as being ideologically on the party's right-wing and has been described as a [[Margaret Thatcher|Thatcherite]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201516/cmhansrd/cm150519/debtext/150519-0001.htm |title=House of Commons Hansard Debates for 19 May 2015 (pt 0001) |publisher=Parliament of the United Kingdom |date=19 May 2015 |accessdate=4 July 2016}}</ref> |
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Priti Patel (born 29 March 1972) is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Witham constituency in Essex since 2010. She served as Secretary of State for International Development from July 2016 to November 2017. A member of the Conservative Party, she is regarded as being ideologically on the party's right-wing and has been described as a Thatcherite.[1]
Priti Patel was born in London to a Ugandan Indian migrant family. Educated at Keele University and the University of Essex, she was a member of the Conservative Party in her youth, became involved with the Referendum Party and then switched her allegiance back to the Conservatives. She worked for the public relations consultancy firm Weber Shandwick for several years, as part of which she lobbied for the tobacco and alcohol industries. Intending to switch to a political career, she unsuccessfully contested the Nottingham North seat at the 2005 General Election.
After David Cameron became Conservative leader, he recommended Patel for the party's "A-List" of prospective parliamentary candidates. She was first elected MP for Witham, a Conservative safe seat, at the 2010 General Election, and was re-elected in 2015 and 2017. Under Cameron's government, Patel was appointed Minister of State for Employment. A longstanding Eurosceptic, Patel was a leading figure in the Vote Leave campaign during the build-up to the 2016 EU Referendum. Following Cameron's resignation, Patel backed Theresa May as Conservative leader; May subsequently appointed Patel as International Development Secretary. On 8 November 2017 Patel resigned after it was revealed that she had been involved in unauthorised meetings with the Israeli government.[2]
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Cutting Palestinian aid
In October 2016, Priti Patel, ordered a review of the funding procedure and froze about a third of Britain’s aid to the Palestinians while the review, undertaken in close collaboration with the Foreign Office, was carried out. In December 2016, the Department for International Development (DIFD) announced that although Britain would continue to fund the Palestinian Authority, there would be certain crucial changes. In future, DIFD said, its aid would go “solely to vital health and education services, in order to meet the immediate needs of the Palestinian people and maximise value for money."
Simon Johnson, Chief Executive of the Jewish Leadership Council, said:
- “We welcome this sensible move by the Department for International Development to concentrate aid where it is most needed. It must be robust in ensuring funds are used to help those in need, such as for health and education, and kept away from those who seek to use the money to cause harm.”
Conservative Friends of Israel Honorary President Lord Polak also welcomed DfID’s announcement, saying:
- “After years of campaigning against the Palestinian Authority’s abuse of international aid to fund the salaries of prisoners convicted of terror, today’s announcement is welcome news from DfID. With the redirection of aid to education and health, the ability of the Palestinian Authority to abuse this funding to reward terror is significantly reduced and the money will now go to those most in need. It is clear that the Secretary of State for International Development, Priti Patel, is taking concerns seriously, and it is now essential that DfID rigorously scrutinises the PA to ensure it is no longer misusing British taxpayers’ money. We also call on DfID to continue looking into allocating aid to vital coexistence projects which lay the groundwork for peace.”
Paul Charney, chairman of the Zionist Federation, welcomed the change in approach. He said:
- “The scandal of salaries for terrorists has been an issue that the Zionist Federation has campaigned on for a long time. Over the years, thousands of emails were sent to politicians – all of which were rebuffed by an apparently impenetrable shield of denial. Today’s dramatic shift in funding priorities means that finally DFID is acknowledging that there is a fundamental problem with the Palestinian Authority’s lack of accountability and support for violence. It remains to be seen if UK taxpayer money will make its way to the intended targets – doctors and teachers. But this is an important change in the UK’s attitude towards Palestinian aid, and we hope it will contribute to a change in the PA’s attitude as well.”[3]
Family holiday in Israel
In August 2017, Priti Patel took what she described as a family holiday in Israel.[4] It later transpired that her holiday had been organised by Conservative Friends of Israel honorary president Lord Polak who personally arranged 12 meetings for her, including one with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, as well as a trip to the Israeli occupied Golan Heights.[5]
Event Participated in
Event | Location(s) | Description |
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UK/Parliament/Voted YES to vaccine passports in 2021 | UK/House of Commons | These members of the UK Parliament voted YES to the introduction of a "vaccine" passport in 2021 |
Related Documents
Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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Document:Boris Johnson is Unfit for National Office | blog post | 13 December 2021 | Clifford Thurlow | Johnson has been astute with the people he has gathered about him in the Cabinet. They are greedy and self-serving. They will never Level Up. They will continue to leech money from the NHS, underfund schools and keep hungry people queuing up outside food banks. |
Document:Civil Liberty Vanishes | blog post | 6 May 2020 | Craig Murray | "Serious questions have to be asked about why the UK government has developed its own unique app, universally criticised for its permanent central data collection and ability to identify individuals from their unique codes. That this is overseen by NHSX CEO Matthew Gould who held all those secret meetings with Liam Fox and Adam Werritty, including with Mossad, frankly stinks." |
Document:Did POLICE turn Bristol ‘Kill the Bill’ protest into a riot? | blog post | 22 March 2021 | Mike Sivier | It is impossible to condemn the people for the Bristol ‘Kill the Bill’ riot when we know it is entirely possible that it was engineered by Priti Patel and the police. |
Document:Nothing has Changed | Article | 10 November 2017 | John Warren | The ill-judged words of the present Prime Minister perhaps accidentally illuminate something important about the true character of the Conservative Party: “Nothing has Changed”. |
Document:Priti Patel's Israel links undermined British diplomacy in the Middle East | Article | 23 December 2021 | Martin Linton | Home Secretary Priti Patel, who was fired from her previous government post by Theresa May for holding secret meetings with Israeli ministers, spearheaded the blacklisting of Hamas as a "terrorist organisation" in a move that angered Palestinians and undermined British diplomacy |
Document:Ruth Davidson slammed over high-level Tory visit to illegal Israeli settlement | Article | 13 November 2016 | Martin Williams | Al-Marsad director Dr Nizar Ayoub told Ruth Davidson: "The only part of Syria that Israel borders is the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The fighting in Syria is not taking place metres away from Israel, it is taking place metres away from the occupied Syrian Golan." |
Document:The UK government is on the wrong side of history… again | Article | 25 November 2021 | Ahmed Abu Artema |
References
- ↑ "House of Commons Hansard Debates for 19 May 2015 (pt 0001)". Parliament of the United Kingdom. 19 May 2015. Retrieved 4 July 2016.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
- ↑ "An enormous thank you to friends, colleagues, constituents & the public for the support & kindness you have shown me over the last few days"
- ↑ "UK cracks down on Palestinian aid following three-month freeze"
- ↑ "Priti Patel let lobby group chief Lord Polak sit in on secret Israel talks"
- ↑ "Priti Patel scandal turns spotlight on Stuart Polak"
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