Priti Patel forced to resign from UK government
As sadly expected, Patel paid the price for something honestly petty:
Interestingly, Patel, if it wasn't clearly reported before, visited the Golan Heights:
Britain's senior-most Indian-origin minister Priti Patel has resigned from her Cabinet post over her unauthorised secret meetings with Israeli politicians while on a holiday in the Jewish country.The UK leftists - and even the pretentious rightists - would not let it go, alas.
Patel's position as international development minister had become increasingly untenable after it emerged that she had two further meetings with Israeli officials that were not disclosed through the proper procedure.
The 45-year-old minister resigned late last night after a meeting at Downing Street with Prime Minister Theresa May.
In her resignation, Patel again apologised and said her actions "fell below the standards of transparency and openness that I have promoted and advocated".
It follows a week of controversies around a dozen undisclosed meetings she had with other Israelis, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for which she had been forced to apologise.
[...] A longstanding Eurosceptic, Patel is among the most vocal supporters of Brexit and had steered the 'Vote Leave' campaign in the lead up to the June 2016 referendum in favour of Britain's exit from the European Union (EU).
She must have hoped that the storm around her undisclosed meetings in Israel would die down after a formal apology before she flew out to Africa for an official tour of Uganda and Ethiopia yesterday.
Interestingly, Patel, if it wasn't clearly reported before, visited the Golan Heights:
In addition to her unauthorized meetings with Israeli government officials over which she resigned yesterday, former British Secretary of State for International Development Priti Patel also visited the Golan Heights during her trip to Israel in August, Haaretz reported.Even that wasn't enough for the British left, nor her own Tory colleagues.
[...] On Tuesday, Downing Street officials confirmed that Patel had discussed during her meetings in Israel the possibility of granting British aid to IDF-run field hospitals in the Golan Heights providing humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees.
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