Tag: Priti Patel

• Friday, June 17th 2022 - 21:11 UTC

  UK Home Secretary okays Assange's extradition

  

  British Home Secretary Priti Patel Friday signed the documents whereby the Australian founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange is to be extradited to the United States to be tried for divulging classified information revealing war crimes in Iran and Afghanistan.

• Saturday, November 20th 2021 - 22:28 UTC

  UK to also ban the political wing of Hamas

  

  The United Kingdom Home Secretary Priti Patel on Friday laid before Parliament an order to outlaw the militant Islamist terrorist movement Hamas in its entirety from the UK.

• Wednesday, September 30th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  UK considered building asylum processing centers in Ascension and St Helena

  

  British Home Secretary Priti Patel ordered officials to explore plans for building an asylum processing centre on a remote volcanic island in the south Atlantic – more than 4,000 miles from the UK, it has been reported.

• Thursday, July 23rd 2020 - 08:51 UTC

  Beijing warns UK granting British citizenship to Hong Kong residents violates international law

  

  A new British policy allowing Hong Kong residents to claim British citizenship is a violation of international law and interferes with China's internal affairs, China's embassy in London said on Thursday.

• Monday, July 13th 2020 - 09:26 UTC

  UK and France join efforts to combat migrant traffickers trying to cross the Channel

  

  The interior ministers of France and Britain on Sunday signed an agreement creating a new joint police intelligence unit to combat migrant traffickers and reduce the “unsustainable” numbers crossing the Channel illegally.

• Thursday, March 5th 2020 - 08:15 UTC

  Boris Johnson clashes with the civil service in defending the Interior minister

  

  Three months after his triumphant re-election, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is battling to save one of his top ministers from a bullying scandal that has exposed tensions at the heart of his government.

• Thursday, July 25th 2019 - 05:08 UTC

  Johnson names cabinet: Sajid Javid, finance; Raab. foreign secretary, Priti Patel home secretary

  

  New Prime Minister Boris Johnson sacked most of Britain's cabinet on Wednesday as he took office vowing to get a new divorce deal with the European Union or leave without one by Oct 31. The former London mayor has pledged to break the political deadlock that has left Britain in crisis and forced his predecessor Theresa May to delay Brexit twice.