Priti Patel

Supporters outside the High Court in central London, during a hearing over a last-minute block on the Government from concluding its deal on the Chagos Islands. Picture date: Thursday May 22, 2025.

Tories: Chagos Islands deal falling apart every day

British hostage Emily Damari with her mother Mandy. Ms Damari, 28, who was released on Sunday, was held in captivity by Hamas terrorists for more than 15 months

Mother of freed British hostage thanks those who kept ‘fighting for Emily’

Morning View

Editorial: A cautious welcome for potential Tory shift on Irish Sea border

Jim Allister’s bill to bring an end to the Irish Sea border arrangements has ended without a vote

Labour 'talks out' Jim Allister's protocol bill - meaning no vote taken

Some Tory MPs, such as the former Northern Ireland secretary Julian Smith, backed new Windsor Framework regulations on pet movements, while others opposed them.

Tory MPs divided over new Irish Sea border rules on pet travel

Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch has picked her shadow cabinet, including the return of Dame Priti Patel as shadow Foreign Secretary. Photo credit should read: House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA Wire

Kemi Badenoch's key NI appointments Dame Priti Patel's front bench return

Police stand guard at Belfast’s Islamic Centre after anti-immigration and anti-racism protesters clashed at City Hall

Police braced for planned unrest by ‘hateful and divisive’ groups

Former home secretary Suella Braverman is expected to be a contender in the race for the leadership of the Conservative Party

New Tory leader must strengthen party's relationship with unionism says DUP MP

Morning View

Editorial: The UK government looks increasingly divided and desperate

Former Home Secretary Priti Patel has urged the government to re-open the Windsor Framework

Patel shows unionists shouldn’t give up Stormont ‘leverage’ – TUV

Former Home Secretary Dame Priti Patel has made an extraordinary intervention on the anti-protocol website Unionist Voice about her concerns on EU control in Northern Ireland. She has also called for the government to review the Windsor Framework.

Priti Patel: Windsor Framework should be re-opened

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

Breaking Privileges committee publishes damning report on Conservative MPs

Rishi Sunak at the Premier League match between Southampton FC and Fulham FC at Friends Provident St. Mary's Stadium yesterday

Sunak facing criticism after election results and scaling back on EU laws cuts

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak holds a Q&A session with local business leaders during a visit to Coca-Cola HBC in Lisburn, Co Antrim in Northern Ireland

Sunak: Windsor Framework creates 'world’s most exciting economic zone'

Rishi Sunak

Sunak under pressure amid campaign to save 'Tory Democracy'

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?
The cabinet met for the first time today (7 September) at 10 Downing Street
Patrick Hollis

Graph from the Press Association showing an escalation in arrivals this year

More than 13,000 migrants have crossed the English Channel since Rwanda plan

A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Ramsgate, Kent, onboard a Border Force vessel following a small boat incident in the Channel this week.

Almost 700 migrants cross Channel in single day

An inflatable craft carrying migrant men, women and children crosses the shipping lane in the English Channel. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Immigration: 3,600 migrants crossed Channel to UK in July - new record

Home Secretary Priti Patel

ECHR to be asked to reconsider decision

A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, Kent, following a small boat incident in the Channel on April 19, 2022.

DUP MPs split over plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda

Ian Snowden, head of Ukraine support from the Executive Office, and Sharon Sinclair from the Red Cross at last week’s opening of the Ukraine Assistance Centre in Belfast. It will provide a range of services and advice for refugees arriving in Northern Ireland from Ukraine

Unionists frustrated at problems with UK refugee scheme for Ukrainians

Simon Coveney (centre-right) and his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba (centre)

Two hundred Ukrainians get visas for NI under sponsorship scheme

File photo dated 06/03/22 of Home Secretary Priti Patel speaking to the media outside the Ukrainian embassy in London. The Home Secretary has apologised "with frustration" over the time it is taking for Ukrainian refugees to arrive in the UK under visa schemes.

NI assistance centres to open as Patel apologises for Ukrainian refugee response

Queen Elizabeth II named as one of the most inspirational women (photo: Victoria Jones - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

International Women’s Day celebration of our phenomenal females

A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, Kent, by the RNLI following a small boat incident in the Channel. Picture date: Tuesday January 4, 2022. PA Photo.

Strike threat over Channel migrant plans

UK terror threat level increased to severe - meaning an attack is ‘highly likely... Group Reporter

Sajid Javid calls anti-vax protesters ‘idiots’ following protests which saw children injured (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images)

Sajid Javid calls anti-vax protesters ‘idiots’ following protests which saw chil...

Downing Street and Mrs Johnson’s spokeswoman have denied lockdown rules were broken (Photo: Getty Images)

PM and Carrie Johnson ‘broke Christmas lockdown rules’ to have friend over

Home Secretary Priti Patel (left) will unveil plans to tackle disruptive protesters including those from Insulate Britain (right) (Pictures: Getty Images and Insulate Britain)

These are the new powers set to be handed to police to tackle disruptive protest...

Priti Patel: Police must not treat flashing and harassment of women as ‘low level’ (Photo by Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images)

Priti Patel: Police must not treat flashing and harassment of women as ‘low leve...

The Home Secretary has reportedly sanctioned new tactics to redirect migrant boats in the Channel back to France (Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Priti Patel to send boats carrying migrants to the UK back to France

Letter to the editor

Only in South Armagh do UK police officers carry military weapons

Plymouth shooting: Six dead in Keyham incident including suspect and a child

Tyrone Mings of England looks on following defeat in the UEFA Euro 2020 Championship Final between Italy and England at Wembley Stadium on July 11, 2021 in London, England. (Photo by John Sibley - Pool/Getty Images)

Tyrone Mings opens up on mental health struggles at Euro 2020

News Letter editorial

Birmingham should have been one of many probes into IRA

Football banning order will be extended to stop racist trolls attending games for up to 10 years (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Football banning order will be extended to stop racist trolls attending games fo...

Tyrone Mings hit out at the Home Secretary for labelling the team's anti-racism message as 'gesture politics' (Photo: Getty Images)

Priti Patel under fire from England player after labelling anti-racism stand as ...

WhatsApp has launched a new ad campaign in the UK and Germany, which it says has been designed to reiterate its “commitment to privacy” (Photo: Shutterstock)

WhatsApp launches global ad campaign after backlash over privacy policy

Ms Everard died from a compression of the neck after she went missing on 3 March

Pc Wayne Couzens, 48, pleads guilty to kidnap and rape of Sarah Everard

Priti Patel has refused to rule out prosecutions after Diana interview report - ...

Priti Patel: Facebook and other tech companies must ‘live up to moral duty’ and keep children safe (Photo by Matt Dunham - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Priti Patel urges tech companies to ‘live up to moral duty’ and keep children sa...

Priti Patel announced that GHB will be reclassified as a class B drug (Getty Images)

GHB has been reclassified as a class B drug - these are its effects

The Isle of Man is one of the locations suggested under new plans (Photo: Shutterstock)

Plans to process asylum seekers on UK islands including Scottish isles and Gibra...

MPs debated the controversial proposed policing bill for hours yesterday - here’s what happened (Photo by MATT DUNHAM/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

MPs debated the controversial proposed policing bill for hours yesterday - here’...

The register would act as an 'early warning system' (Photo: Shutterstock)

A national register to monitor men who harass or are violent towards women is be...

Labour has announced it will vote against the Government’s key crime legislation, which includes plans to impose controls on protests (Photo: JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Labour is opposing legislation plans to impose controls on protests - but will i...

File photo of a plane taking off at sunset

100,000 passengers pass through Belfast International airport during pandemic

The Government made limited use of quarantine hotels early in the pandemic, such as this Holiday Inn hotel,close to Heathrow Airport which was block-booked by the Department of Health to use as a quarantine zone in March 2020 (Photo: ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Anyone returning from these 'red list' countries to the UK will soon have to qua...

Tougher travel restrictions are being considered by the government (Photo: Getty Images)

Full closure of UK borders is being ‘considered’ - what we know so far

Icreasing the rollout to 600,000 jabs per day could allow restrictions to lift sooner (Photo: Getty Images)

Daily Covid vaccination rate must double to lift lockdown by May - is it feasibl...

150,000 police records were wiped due to an ‘error’ - including fingerprints and...

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Former NI Secretary of State James Brokenshire to undergo lung cancer surgery

Boris Johnson downplayed the number of lorry drivers stranded in Dover - accordi...

Boris Johnson is being sued - here's why and what could happen

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