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Priti Patel unveils campaign to counter UK's Windrush immigration scandal

Priti Patel hits back at Opposition MPs for ‘racist’ attack

10:12 pm June 28, 2020

London: UK Home Secretary Priti Patel on Sunday hit back at MPs from the Opposition Labour Party for being “racist” in their treatment of her. The row emerged after a group of ethnic minority Labour MPs, including Indian-origin MPs Virendra Sharma, Tan Dhesi, Preet Kaur Gill, Valerie Vaz, Seema Malhotra and Nadia Whittome, wrote to the Indian-origin Cabinet minister earlier this month accusing her of trying to suppress the anti-racism […]

Terror threat from ‘lone actors’ growing, Priti Patel tells UK Parliament

11:25 pm June 22, 2020

London: The threat from “lone actors” is growing, British Home Secretary Priti Patel warned on Monday as she visited the scene of the terror attack in the southern English city of Reading where three people were killed in a knife attack. Addressing the MPs in the House of Commons, the senior Indian-origin minister praised the bravery of unarmed police officers who tackled […]

British PM forced to defend India travel ban timing over Delta variant in Parliament

UK PM’s new ‘super department’ will combine aid ministry with Foreign Office

10:23 pm June 16, 2020

London: In a major shake-up of the UK government’s ministerial set-up, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday announced the merger of the Department for International Development (DfID) with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to create a so-called “super department”. Addressing the House of Commons, Johnson said the move was aimed at a more “coherent” foreign policy approach to the country’s aid budget, which will […]

UK preparing for delay’ stage of coronavirus: Boris Johnson

11:56 pm March 9, 2020

London: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson held an emergency COBRA meeting at 10 Downing Street in London on Monday to assess the fight against coronavirus and announced that preparations will begin for the “delay” phase of the government’s four-phase strategy. While the UK will stay at stage one of “containment” of the virus, Johnson revealed […]

UK MPs approve PM’s non-Brexit legislative programme

11:43 pm October 24, 2019

London : The UK parliament on Thursday narrowly approved Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s annual legislative programme, delivering his minority government a symbolic win as he pushed for a snap general election. Parliament’s lower House of Commons approved the proposal, which does not directly deal with the Brexit crisis, by 310 to 294 votes. Moments earlier, […]