British Prime Minister Theresa May summons her aid minister back from a trip to Africa following a row over unauthorized meetings in Israel, prompting speculation she will be the second minister in a week to be sacked.
International Development Secretary Priti Patel left London on Tuesday on a trip to Uganda, but a government source tells AFP she is returning to London today at May’s request.
Patel was forced to apologize on Monday for taking time out of a family vacation to Israel in August to hold 12 separate meetings with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other politicians without May’s knowledge.
Patel was accompanied on all the meetings in Israel except one by Lord Stuart Polak, the honorary president of lobbying group Conservative Friends of Israel.
She was publicly reprimanded by the prime minister but appeared to keep her job.
However, it emerged late Tuesday there had been another two unauthorized meetings in September, one with Israel’s Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan.
“I don’t understand what more she needs to do to be sacked,” one unnamed minister tells the Daily Telegraph newspaper.
— AFP
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