Priti Patel

An activist holding a placard with portraits of US President Donald Trump and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a rally condemning the US-Israeli strikes on Iran at a park in Quezon City, suburban Manila on March 2, 2026. (Picture: Ted ALJIBE / AFP via Getty Images)

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Reform have topped the UK polls for the first time

Reform lead the UK polls - and were put there by the Conservatives Alexander Brown

Keir Starmer has said he wants a reset of EU-UK relations (Picture: Benjamin Cremel/pool)

Government urged to seize olive branch as EU hint at trade agreement

Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch speaking during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons

PMQs: Badenoch can't pick a topic as Keir Starmer gets away with it

Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch during Prime Minister's Questions

Analysis Kemi Badenoch focuses on Trump in flat first PMQs as Tory leader

Newly elected leader of the Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, leaves party headquarters in Matthew Parker St, central London

Kemi Badenoch's top team, including Scottish MP who makes the cut

Newly elected leader of the Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, leaves party headquarters in Matthew Parker St, central London

Kemi Badenoch bids to reunite Tories with shadow cabinet appointments

Anti-migration protesters are seen during riots outside of the Holiday Inn Express in Manvers, which is being used as an asylum hotel, in Rotherham. Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Keir Starmer pledges 'standing army' of police to deal with riots

The candidates hoping to replace Rishi Sunak as UK Conservative leader

Explainer Deadline day for UK Conservative leader race to replace Rishi Sunak

The contenders for the Conservative Party leadership race

James Cleverly will hopefully be an improvement on his predecessors as Home Secretary (Picture: Daniel Leal/AFP via Getty Images)

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Patel says highly-confusing Covid laws hard for people, police

Partygate probe: Nadine Dorries and Jacob Rees-Mogg named in privileges committee special report

Breaking Privileges committee publishes damning report on Conservative MPs

Boris Johnson allies ran campaign to undermine privileges committee, report says

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson makes a speech outside 10 Downing Street while in office. Picture: Aaron Chown/PA Wire

Boris Johnson hands honours to close allies Jacob Rees-Mogg and Priti Patel

Many overseas students choose the UK and Scotland

Wendy Alexander hails the British Council's role in promoting cultural relations

Jacob Rees-Mogg and Nadine Dorries are expected to attend (Pics: Leon Neal & Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

High-profile Tory MPs at conference to restore party’s grassroots democracy

Dominic Raab has resigned after being criticised in a report about allegations he bullied civil servants (Picture: James Manning/PA)

After Raab's resignation, politicians need to learn how to be better leaders

Ash Regan. Picture: Colin D Fisher/CDFIMAGES.COM

Ash Regan pledges to 'immediately explore' setting up currency infrastructure

Immigration policies differ across the globe, as the final instalment in our series of articles shows

How does Scotland and the UK compare on immigration to the rest of the world?

Campaigners lost a High Court challenge against the Rwanda scheme.

Opposition parties insist Rwanda deportations are 'immoral'

Demonstrators outside the Royal Courts of Justice, central London, protesting against the Government's plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda.

Analysis: Rwanda deportations being ruled lawful changes nothing for opponents

'Stand up to Racism' campaigners dismantle a flag after staging an anti-Rwanda deportations demo outside the Royal Courts of Justice. Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

Plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda are lawful, the High Court has ruled.

An investigation into Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab’s conduct could range more widely than just the two formal complaints made against him.

Dominic Raab investigation could look beyond formal complaints against him

Former home secretary Priti Patel. Picture: Andrew Boyers/PA Wire

Patel restricted disclosure of documents to Novichok death inquiry

Liz Truss has held her first meeting with her newly-appointed Cabinet - where the energy crisis will have undoubtedly been a key topic of conversation. Credit: Getty Images

The Liz Truss Cabinet: who has been given what by the new PM?

Liz Truss and husband Hugh O'Leary pose outside number 10 Downing Street

In pictures: Who is in Liz Truss' new Cabinet?

Liz Truss departs Conservative Campaign Headquarters (CCHQ) in London, following the announcement that she is the new Conservative party leader, and will become the next Prime Minister. Picture: PA

Liz Truss doubles down on tax cuts and seems to rule out general election

Outgoing home secretary Priti Patel looks on during a visit with members of the Thames Valley Police, at Milton Keynes Police Station. Picture: Andrew Boyers - WPA Pool/Getty Images

Patel quits as home secretary after Truss PM announcement

Police close the road during a demonstration by environmental campaigners, preventing copies of The News leaving for Portsmouth from the print plant in Thurrock

Press freedom under attack as police block newspaper delivery vans – Scotsman

Migrants risk their lives daily crossing the English Channel in overloaded and often unseaworthy board

More than 25,000 migrants have crossed the English Channel this year

A distressed child is carried as a group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, Kent, from a Border Force Vessel, following a small boat incident in the Channel. Picture: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire

Channel migrant crossings reach record high for single day

June saw forecourt fuel prices reach a record high across the UK

Hard-up drivers hit by record monthly hike in petrol prices

Fuel protest signage on a car, as prices soar across Scotland. Picture Cameron Smith/Getty Images

Scottish Government urged to create fuel comparison website

Migrants gesture as they arrive in Dover aboard a Border Force vessel after being intercepted while crossing the English Channel from France in small boats (Picture: Peter Summers/Getty Images)

Rwanda asylum-seeker plan exposes dark side of Johnson's government

(left to right) Julian Assange's lawyer Jennifer Robinson, Stella Assange, the wife of Julian Assange, and Director of the Foreign Press Association Deborah Bonetti talking to the media at the Royal Over-Seas League in London, after Priti Patel signed an order to extradite Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the US to face espionage charges. Picture date: Friday June 17, 2022.

Julian Assange ‘strip searched' on day of extradition announcement

Police officers near a Boeing 767 aircraft at MoD Boscombe Down, near Salisbury, which is believed to be the plane set to take asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda. Picture: Andrew Matthews/PA

Rwanda: There is still hope for the soul of the UK - Dani Garavelli

Home Secretary Priti Patel making a statement to MPs in the House of Commons, London, on the Rwanda asylum plan. Picture date: Wednesday June 15, 2022.

‘Rwanda asylum policy dishonours God’ – Church of Scotland moderator

Home Secretary Priti Patel has signed an order to extradite Julian Assange to the US to face espionage charges, the Home Office has confirmed.

Home Office to extradite Julian Assange to the US to face espionage charges

A man stands on the steps of the grounded Rwanda deportation flight EC-LZO Boeing 767 at Boscombe Down Air Base. The flight taking asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda was grounded at the last minute after intervention of the European Court of Human Rights. Picture: Getty Images

Is Britain regarded as the most heartless nation in the Western world?

A placard left outside the High Court where the ruling on Rwanda deportation flights is taking place in London. British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss says the first deportation flight to Rwanda will take off in the evening of Tuesday, June 14th, regardless of how many people are on board, as immigration attorneys launch case-by-case appeals on behalf of the migrants scheduled for removal. Photo: AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File.

Here's why the UK is sending refugees to Rwanda

A protester communicates with those inside at the perimeter fence of Brook House immigration removal centre beside Gatwick Airport as demonstrators gather to protest against the UK government's intention to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda.

Plan to send near-empty flight to Rwanda is clear message to asylum seekers
Foreign secretary Priti Patel's dogged determination to send a near-empty flight of deportees to Rwanda was aimed at sending a clear message to asylum seekers a...

The grounded Rwanda deportation flight

Rwanda flight grounded after European Court of Human Rights intervenes

Lord Geidt, Boris Johnson's adviser on ministerial interests giving evidence to the Commons Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee

Sketch: Lord Geidt talks forever, but fails to deny he threatened to resign

Home Secretary Priti Patel introduced the controversial new Rwanda plan last month

Age dispute could see teenage boys deported to Rwanda immigration centre

Home secretary Priti Patel, talking to the media in Green Park, central London. Picture: James Manning/PA Wire

Priti Patel tells Tory MPs seeking Boris Johnson resignation to 'forget it'

A security officer passes in front of the Desir Resort hotel in Kigali, Rwanda, which is preparing to house migrants.

Migrants notified of removal to Rwanda as first flight is set for June 14

Medical leaders have made a renewed call for legislation to protect women from “unacceptable” harassment and intimidation outside abortion clinics.

Renewed calls for abortion clinic buffer zones to protect women from abuse

Anti-Homosexual activists march on the streets of Kampala. Picture: ISAAC KASAMANI/AFP via Getty

'I would rather die than go to Rwanda' - the fears of LGBT+ asylum seekers

Boris Johnson says he will survive despite an aide resigning over the 'toxic' culture at Downing Street.

Boris Johnson says he will survive as Patel aide resigns over 'toxic culture'

Prime Minister Boris Johnson departs 10 Downing Street for his first Prime Minister's Questions since the Sue Gray Report into "Partygate" has been made public. Photo: Leon Neal/Getty Images.

The list of named Downing Street officials and politicians in full

The number of migrants deported to Rwanda is “more likely to be in the hundreds” each year, according to the deputy prime minister.

‘Hundreds’ likely to be sent to Rwanda each year – minister

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Jeremy Hunt says a leadership contest could take place before the 2024 election.

Jeremy Hunt refuses to rule out Tory leadership contest before 2024 election

Jagtar Singh Johal's brother Gurpreet Singh Johal speaks during a protest outside the Indian Consulate in Edinburgh's Rutland Square (Picture: Scott Louden)

Handling of Jagtar Singh Johal case exposes callousness of 'Global Britain'

Would-be sponsors under the Homes For Ukraine visa scheme are threatening the Government with legal action on behalf of hundreds of refugees who have spent weeks waiting to come to the UK.

Home Secretary could face legal action over Ukraine visa delays

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