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Priti Patel resigns from the Cabinet

Priti Patel has resigned from the Cabinet. Patel said that she accepted her decision to hold meetings with Israeli officials during her summer holiday without the prior say so of the government meant that her ‘actions fell below the high standards that are expected of a secretary of state’. The secretary of state for international development went on to ‘offer a fulsome apology’ to the Prime Minister. Theresa May responded by saying ‘now that further details have come to light’ about exactly what Patel got up to on her summer jaunt, ‘it is right that you have decided to resign’.

Her resignation tonight is not much of a surprise. Westminster has spent the day watching the progress of Patel’s journey back from Africa and it was clear that when she landed at Heathrow there was only one fate awaiting her.

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