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Priti Patel to hold crisis talks with prime minister over Israel meetings

Priti Patel

By: Sarwar Alam

British aid minister Priti Patel’s political future was in doubt on Wednesday (8) over undisclosed meetings she held with Israeli officials, posing a new test of prime minister Theresa May’s authority as she negotiates Brexit. Weaker than ever after losing her party’s majority in a June election, May faces another crisis after her defence minister resigned in a sexual harassment scandal, leaving the government with “the stench of death” to it, according to one opposition lawmaker. Patel, a Brexit campaigner whose views chime with many in the governing Conservative Party, was heading back to London after cancelling meetings on a…

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