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As UK Parliament resumes, Priti Patel and five ex-Cabinet ministers vie to succeed Rishi Sunak as Conservative leader and Opposition Leader after the party's July defeat.
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The 52-year-old parliamentarian pledged to unite her party and turn the Conservatives into an election “winning machine” once again under her leadership.
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The Indian-origin former home secretary, who resigned from the Cabinet when Liz Truss was elected the Prime Minister last month, said the Tories must put political differences aside to give Sunak the best chance of succeeding as the new leader.
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The Indian-origin MP, who had remained conspicuously silent over her choice of Conservative Party leader in the last leadership contest between Truss and Rishi Sunak, said Johnson had the public mandate from the 2019 general election to deliver for the Tories.
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Rishi Sunak is now the foremost target of Boris Johnson and his supporters, who see him as an important architect in the downfall of the (now caretaker) PM’s regime.
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The Indian-origin minister has so far said she has no plans of resigning after Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid made their dramatic exit from the Cabinet, triggering a flurry of ministerial and government aide resignations now adding up to 38.
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The rising cost of living and impending tax rises had meant that the offices of the Prime Minister and the Chancellor would play the blame game.
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The UK investor visa was what provided Nirav Modi the refuge to escape Indian agencies and invoke human rights provisions to halt his extradition.
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Raab has been replaced by Liz Truss, promoted from her role of International Trade Secretary.
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The 50-year-old diamond merchant, wanted in India to face charges of fraud and money laundering in the estimated $2-billion Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam case, observed the remotely held court proceedings from his Wandsworth Prison in south-west London as his lawyers argued for permission to appeal against his extradition ordered by District Judge Sam Goozee in February and certified by UK Home Secretary Priti Patel in April.
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The 50-year-old jeweller, who remains behind bars at Wandsworth Prison in south-west London, had lost the first stage of the High Court appeals process last week as a judge declined permission to appeal "on the papers".
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The latest development arrives ahead of United Kingdom's Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s India visit.
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After a stand-off between police and protesters on Friday evening, officers in riot gear and mounted on horses attempted to disperse the crowds after several warnings were made through a loudspeaker.
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Wiley is facing a police investigation after comments appeared on his social media accounts on July 24 asserting that Jews systematically exploited Black artists in the music industry.
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UK Home Secretary Priti Patel on Wednesday said the scheme will apply not only to the families and dependents of foreign doctors and nurses killed on the National Health Service (NHS) frontline during the pandemic, but also to lower-paid NHS support staff, including from India.
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Patel is known to be an avid supporter of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and had praised him for demonetisation, calling it a "right step to tackle the root causes of corruption"
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May was under pressure from Eurosceptic MPs to ensure that Patel is replaced by a pro-Brexit MP like her predecessor to maintain a balance within the UK Cabinet.
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Patel holds on to her position as the senior-most Indian-origin Cabinet minister and will remain in charge as the secretary of state for international development in the new government, which May said will focus on delivering a successful Brexit.
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Bilateral cooperation in the
spheres of skill development, infrastructure financing,
innovation, energy and ease of doing business was discussed
today when British Minister for International Development
Priti Patel met Prime Minister Narendra Modi here.
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Britain is poised to get its first woman Prime Minister in more than a quarter of a century since Margaret Thatcher as the race to succeed David Cameron after
the Brexit vote on July 7 narrowed down to home secretary Theresa May and energy minister Andrea Leadsom
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West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday greeted the "great nation" of Britain as she landed here on a five-day visit seeking to woo foreign investment for her state.
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A minister in the UK Treasury has said that the dispute surrounding the USD 1.6 billion tax bill imposed on Scottish oil major Cairn Energy by Indian authorities will not affect UK investor confidence in India.
