Can Theresa May and her government survive? Our writers' verdicts

Sonia Sodha: It s hard to remember a government so racked by crisis Weak and stable is the joke about Theresa May s leadership apparently doing the rounds amongst Conservative MPs. It may not be very funny but it s an apt description of the paradox inherent in May s premiership. Lacking in all authority her government is making absolutely no progress on the key issues from Brexit talks to the impending NHS winter crisis. But there s also no way out for her: she remains in uncomfortable suspended animation held in place by a split Conservative party that won t let her go for fear of what comes next. You can see why European leaders looking on at what s unfolding here in Britain are reportedly undertaking contingency planning for what happens if May should topple. Britain has always been viewed in Europe as stable and predictable if a sometimes annoying thorn in the side. But it s hard to remember a time when a British government was so racked by crisis after crisis. There may yet be more government scalps claimed by the sexual harassment crisis enveloping Westminster. And there are a number of big hurdles ahead: the government is at real risk of defeat on rebel amendments to the EU withdrawal bill next week; and the week after will see the chancellor confirm that the state of the public finances is even worse than expected. May under pressure to replace Patel with Brexit enthusiast - Politics live Read more Yet I d be surprised if May didn t last until the end of Brexit talks. Yes she s a hostage to her own party. There s no better sign of this than the fact she s unlikely to use Priti Patel s forced resignation to do a full reshuffle to impose her authority but simply replace her with an appointment most likely to keep the peace. But Conservative MPs won t seek to unseat her for now. Who really wants to take over the poisoned chalice of getting Britain through the Brexit talks only to be blamed for an outcome that cannot keep all Conservatives happy? And at best the upheaval of a Tory leadership contest won t solve anything; at worst would trigger a general election that delivers Prime Minister Corbyn to No 10. Weak and stable it is. Sonia Sodha is a Guardian columnist Andrew Gimson: There s no replacement for May nor appetite for election Theresa May is in a stronger position than the press is willing to admit. Before the election her frailties were ignored. Since that time a narrative of extreme vulnerability has taken hold. Yet she remains in Downing Street and the loss of two ministers who were found in different ways to have misbehaved does not change the powerful reasons for keeping her there. This summer she offered the British people the chance to turn her into an elected dictator and they decided in their wisdom they would rather keep her as a prime minister who must operate with a degree of tact. There is no popular demand for another election the last one was an election too many and no popular call for some particular individual to replace her. Nor does the Conservative party have a replacement for her in mind. On the great issue of the day which is Brexit the party is split. It recognises that the referendum decision must be implemented but also that to implement it with gung-ho gusto of the kind that Boris Johnson could provide would be perilously divisive. The time may well come when in order to achieve Brexit a Gordian knot needs to be cut. But neither the country nor the party is ready for that. The clear preference is for May to continue with the difficult perhaps impossible task of disentangling the knot. Her duty is to carry on with this unenviable task. And since she is a dutiful woman that is probably what she will do. Andrew Gimson is a contributor to ConservativeHome and a biographer of Boris Johnson Steve Richards: Scandals alone do not bring down a prime minister Most modern prime ministers feel vulnerable a lot of the time sometimes with good cause. Yet most endure for much longer than the feverish speculation around them might suggest. May is unusually weak because she called an election earlier than necessary lost her party s overall majority and stayed on in No 10. This is the explanation for all current chaos. When Edward Heath lost his party s overall majority in the February 1974 election he ceased to be prime minister within days. The tumultuous frenzy of events that follows May s authority-shrinking election is inevitable. But scandals alone do not bring down a prime minister. May will continue to find replacements for ministers such as Priti Patel who were never especially powerful in the first place. However they do mean that leadership becomes a form of political hell. A prime minister cannot control the shape of scandals or their form and lives in fear of the next revelation. Only rarely is a prime minister strengthened by a cabinet reshuffle as May conducts her second within a week. Yet it is Brexit that is the bigger threat to her. She faces a negotiation of impossible complexity made more daunting by her misjudged statements early in her leadership. Before the election she was stronger than she realised. After the election she is weak. The wider instability means the Conservatives would be doomed if there were an election which means that in spite of the paralysis within a government of bewildered powerlessness there will not be an election. Steve Richards is a political columnist and broadcaster Ellie Mae O Hagan: May should go but the Tories won t want to risk losing power Let s put the dispatching of the BBC helicopter to follow Priti Patel s ministerial car down to a slow news day and forget the brouhaha for a second. The question of whether Theresa May should remain as prime minister is much more prosaic than that. If you had a boss who lacked the authority to fire anyone in the workplace regardless of how damaging their behaviour was would that be a sustainable situation? Obviously not and the same is true for May. On a purely functional level she cannot remain leader of the Conservative party because she can no longer fulfil the basic requirements of the job. But that s not the question the Tories will be asking. They ll be assessing May s future according to the effect her departure will have upon their ability to retain power. There s nothing the Tories love more than power and they cling to it like barnacles lining the bottom of a schooner. They certainly won t be letting go when the alternative is Jeremy Corbyn a man they view as having been directly beamed into Westminster from the October Revolution. And as long as there is no obvious successor in sight it seems doubtful that most Conservative MPs would risk a drawn-out publicly fought leadership challenge that could end up making their government appear illegitimate. Occasional public humiliations make very little difference to the Tories overall position: until their golden new leader emerges blinking into the sunlight they re stuck with Theresa May. And so are we. Ellie Mae O Hagan is a freelance journalist Even by her standards it s been a diabolical couple of weeks for PM Theresa May What s your new Prime Minister Theresa like? asked Donald Trump when I spoke to him after he won the US election this time last year. I like her I replied. She s a tough no-nonsense woman who spent six years in charge of our Home Office overseeing domestic security. She is a very safe pair of hands. Just the kind of person we need running Britain in these uncertain times. Yes I hear that too Trump said. That s good. I think we ll get along well. I thought of that conversation today as I surveyed the blazing wreckage of Mrs May s government after a second cabinet minister quit in just two weeks and the howling mainstream and social media mob bays for more scalps.Even by her standards it s been a diabolical couple of weeks for the beleaguered PM.First she lost her experienced defence secretary Sir Michael Fallon in a knee-touching sexual harassment scandal.By allowing him to be sacrificed at the current frenzied altar of personal conduct that some saints might fail May has set the bar for resignation so low the entire cabinet might find themselves struggling to attain the exulted new standards required for ministerial office.To compound this fiasco she then allowed her own chief whip Gavin Williamson to appoint himself to the job vacancy he just helped create despite having zero cabinet experience. When I spoke to Donald Trump after he won the US election this time last year he said he thought he would get along well with May (pictured together in January)Our military at a time of unprecedented terror threats is thus now in the hands of a duplicitous little toad who doesn t look or sound like he knows one end of a rifle from another notwithstanding his apparent expertise in shooting people in the back.Then Damian Green May s No2 and her oldest friend in politics was also accused of historic sex-pestery and of once possibly having extreme porn on his Westminster office computer.Green is now hanging on by the tiniest fragment of his blackened fingernails his authority as Deputy Prime Minister drained to the point of oblivion as the nation chortles at the thought of his X-rated shenanigans.Completing this unedifying trifecta of over-sexed married government clods was Mark Garnier International Trade Minister who called his assistant sugartits and asked her to buy sex toys from Soho. 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And they were some of the more complimentary words I heard about Boris this week.Now International Secretary Priti Patel has been forced to quit after sneaking off to secret meetings in Israel and then lying about them. May lost her experienced defence secretary Sir Michael Fallon in a knee-touching sexual harassment scandalJudging by the way she was caught smirking in her car yesterday I suspect Ms Patel is quite happy to be vacating a government teetering on the brink of collapse.This chillingly ambitious creature whose stupendous ego is I fear writing cheques her more limited ability can t cash - will have her beady ruthless eye on the main prize as she now exacts revenge on May from the backbenches.When confronted with such an obvious case of rank wilfully outrageous insubordination a leader has two choices: sack or don t sack the miscreant. Damian Green was also accused of historic sex-pestery and of once possibly having extreme porn on his office computerInstead May dithered as the furore grew predictably worse and then finally allowed Patel to resign rather than do what I would have done which is have her escorted out of Downing Street by armed guards with the word TRAITOR branded on her forehead.Just when I thought this fortnight of grotesque farce couldn t get any more risible Patel s fixer on the Israel trip Lord Polak fled a TV crew last night as a woman shouted: I m sorry but we have a massage here and we need it quiet please. You literally couldn t make this stuff up.It all adds up to a picture of complete and utter chaos; a rudderless clueless mutinous government raging out of control and surging inexorably towards disintegration.And it couldn t be happening at a worse time as we try to extricate ourselves from Europe without bankrupting ourselves.This ridiculously embarrassing situation is not lost on the rest of the world.Steven Erlanger the New York Times man in Britain wrote an excoriating piece about us this week. Many Britons see their country as a brave galleon banners waving cannons firing trumpets blaring he declared but Britain is now but a modest-sized ship on the global ocean. Having voted to leave the European Union it is unmoored heading to nowhere while on deck fire has broken out and the captain poor Theresa May is lashed to the mast without the authority to decide whether to turn to port or starboard let alone do what one imagines she knows would be best which is to turn around and head back to shore. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson made a mistake so horrendous it may lead to a British woman spending years more in a hellhole Iranian jailHe described Britain as embracing an introverted irrelevance and a hollowed-out country engaged in controlled suicide .It was a brutally savage assessment and pretty rich coming from an American given their own political landscape but he s not entirely wrong is he?Theresa May promised us strong and stable .Instead we ve got weak and calamitous .After the election debacle last June I urged May to quit.She d thrown away a 21-point lead in the polls presided over one of the worst campaigns in living memory and come perilously close to losing to a man in Jeremy Corbyn whose own party thought was laughably unelectable.Only a dirty underhand deal to buy off the bigots of the DUP temporarily saved her.Everything I thought about May as a safe pair of hands was cruelly exposed during that election as the complete opposite: she bottled the TV debates presented preposterously bad policies like the dementia tax exuded the air of a stammering lacklustre vision-devoid robot and burst into tears when the shocking results came in.May should have fallen on her sword the next day but inexplicably chose to stumble on.There s nothing worse than watching a politically crippled Prime Minister pathetically try to cling onto power after a nation has delivered a resounding two fingers at the ballot box.It rarely ends as we are now seeing in anything other than ignominious failure. International Secretary Priti Patel (pictured last night) has been forced to quit after sneaking off to secret meetings in Israel and then lying about themTheresa May is not a bad person. She s a decent woman who I suspect is genuinely aghast at the behaviour of many of her colleagues.But she is a very bad leader.By chance I saw her at an event in London last night.In fact I arrived at the exact same time as she swept in with her motorcade and security detail.She had all the trappings of power but she looked haunted and hunted; someone desperately trying to stop the ship sinking on her watch but without the first idea how to do it.The ship will inevitably sink unless something is done very soon to fix the myriad gaping holes listing it towards the rocks.That can only happen with a new captain.Frankly I wouldn t trust Theresa May right now to run a jellied eels market stall let alone the country.She s lost her authority her power her reputation and her dignity.Every second she continues to remain in office will simply cause further damage to her her government and most importantly the country.Yes if she resigns it will force another Conservative leadership contest with the added risk of triggering another general election but this current debacle cannot continue.The Theresa May experiment has spectacularly flopped and the Tories all know it.The Prime Minister has to go and she has to go now. London: Running for election mere months ago British Prime Minister Theresa May s slogan was strong and stable government. The phrase sounds cruelly ironic now with several senior members of May s Cabinet under fire for missteps or under investigation for alleged sexual misconduct.Even before the latest troubles May was a beleaguered leader atop a fragile government. She faces the challenge of steering Britain out of the European Union at the helm of a government split between proponents and opponents of Brexit. And she is weakened after her gamble on a snap June election to increase the Conservative majority in Parliament backfired leaving her with a minority government. We have a prime minister who has lost her authority and her control of the classroom opposition Labour Party lawmaker Kate Osamor said on Tuesday summoning the image of the government as a bunch of unruly children.The lost lieutenantA week of mounting crisis for May began when Defense Secretary Michael Fallon resigned on Wednesday saying his past behaviour may have fallen below the high standards expected. A female journalist had accused him of repeatedly touching her knee at a function in 2002; another said he had given her an unexpected and unwelcome kiss.File image of British PM Theresa May. APFallon had been one of May s most stalwart lieutenants often deployed to speak for the government in broadcast interviews. His resignation was a blow to May made worse when she upset many Conservative lawmakers by replacing him with the widely mistrusted Gavin Williamson a disciplinarian chief party whip famous for keeping a pet tarantula on his desk.Sleaze scandalFallon may not be the last minister forced out by a growing scandal over sexual abuse and harassment in British politics.Since revelations emerged about Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein researchers political staff and journalists have begun to come forward with allegations. Several lawmakers have been suspended by their parties and two government ministers are under investigation.First Secretary of State Damian Green effectively the deputy prime minister is facing a civil service investigation after a young party activist accused him of unwanted touches and text messages. A former senior policeman also says extreme pornography was found on a computer in Green s office in 2008 a claim he strongly denies.International Trade Minister Mark Garnier is being investigated over claims he sent his secretary to buy vibrators from a sex shop. Garnier has called the episode hijinks but conceded he may have had dinosaur attitudes in the past.In a bid to stem the scandal May and other party leaders have agreed to set up new measures to help people working in Parliament report abuse.Blundering BorisBlustering Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has never been known for tact and many were surprised when May made him Britain s top diplomat.Now he stands accused of endangering a British-Iranian woman imprisoned in Iran with his loose talk.The husband and employer of Nazarin Zaghari-Ratcliffe serving a five-year sentence for plotting the soft toppling of Iran s government say she could face more prison time after Johnson told lawmakers last week that she had been training Iranian journalists before she was arrested last year.Husband Richard Ratcliffe and the charitable Thomson Reuters Foundation say Zaghari-Ratcliffe was on vacation visiting family. They say Johnson s statement was seized on by Iranian authorities as evidence she was engaged in propaganda against the regime.Johnson accepted Tuesday that my remarks could have been clearer. The UK government has no doubt that she was on holiday in Iran when she was arrested last year and that was the sole purpose of her visit he told lawmakers in a contrite statement to the House of Commons.Secret meetingsThe latest bad news came when it emerged this week that International Development Secretary Priti Patel held 12 meetings with Israeli groups and officials including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu while she was on vacation in the country in August and that she hadn t told the prime minister or colleagues about it.When news broke about the trip Patel insisted that Boris (Johnson) knew about the visit. Her department was later forced to clarify the statement saying the foreign secretary did become aware of the visit but not in advance of it. Patel apologized saying the meetings did not accord with the usual procedures. Others went further saying Patel was in clear violation of the ministerial code of conduct.Steven Fielding professor of politics at the University of Nottingham said that in normal political times both Patel and Johnson would have been fired. But these are not normal times. It s a multi-level crisis Fielding said. We are left with a party that is divided over the biggest decision this country has to make with a prime minister who has no authority and a government that has no majority in the House of Commons. But he predicted the government will stagger on because it fears losing to Labour if it faces an election. They know that they are toast if they allow themselves to leave office before Brexit is finalized he said. Labour s deputy leader says the current political turmoil could topple Theresa May at any time as he suggested Priti Patel s secret meetings in Israel had been suppressed by No 10. Tom Watson has written to the Prime Minister demanding further details of the sacked cabinet minister s summer talks pointing to evidence the Foreign Office had known about them at the time. I was told that the Foreign Office deliberately asked Downing Street to remove details of the briefing she received from Foreign Office officials when she was in Israel Mr Watson claimed. Read more Theresa May told to replace Priti Patel with Brexiteer If true it shows that there was knowledge that Priti Patel was running a sort of independent foreign policy earlier and that she s not been sacked for breaching the ministerial code in doing that but she s been sacked because it became public that she was doing that. The allegation came as the deputy leader echoed a report that EU leaders now suspect the cabinet chaos in London could trigger the Government s downfall. It does seem to me that we are in a very unstable situation at the heart of government and that random events could bring the Government down Mr Watson agreed. We are ready with our manifesto we would be prepared to go into a general election with a bold set of policies. Mr Watson said he had been told that the former International Development Secretary met officials from the British consulate general in Jerusalem while on holiday in August. 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A family of four mammoths found together during building works near the Siberian city of Tomsk in 2002 will be on sale on November 21 2017 and are expected to sell in the region of 250 000 - 400 000 Rob Stothard/Getty Images 42/43 11 September 2017 Members of the Royal Navy carry supplies on board the amphibious assault ship HMS Ocean at the Naval Base in Gibraltar before leaving to provide humanitarian assistance and vital aid to British Overseas Territories and Commonwealth partners affected by Hurricane Irma. Britain has pledged 32 million (35 million euros 42 million) in aid and sent hundreds of troops supplies and rescue equipment on several flights to the British territories in the Caribbean since the disaster JORGE GUERRERO/AFP/Getty Images 43/43 10 September 2017 His Holiness The Dalai Lama holds the hand of Richard Moore as he gives a public talk on the theme of Compassion in Action to celebrate 20 years of the Children in Crossfire initiative in Londonderry Northern Ireland. The Dalai Lama is the patron of the Children in Crossfire charity which was founded by Richard Moore. Mr Moore was blinded by a plastic bullet fired by a British Soldier during the Troubles in Derry. Getty Images That appeared to prove the Foreign Office had known all along posing the critical question of whether the Prime Minister had been informed. The letter posed nine questions including whether there were any minutes taken and whether Ms Patel was acting with your authorisation . Why was it not made public that Priti Patel had met British consular officials during her visit to Israel? Mr Watson demanded to know. Did you or did the FCO Foreign and Commonwealth Office request that information about Priti Patel meeting British consular officials be suppressed? If so why? If not why was it not published? Speaking to BBC Radio 4 s Today programme he added: I would like to know the facts of this case because it is very unusual. Read more Who will replace Priti Patel in Theresa May s cabinet? May on borrowed time as Patel forced from office Read Theresa May s response to Priti Patel s resignation Read Priti Patel s resignation letter in full Meanwhile The Times reported one European leader saying Brussels is now considering all options from the UK crashing out of the EU without a deal to a decision to reverse Brexit. There is the great difficulty of the leadership in Great Britain which is more and more fragile. Britain is very weak and the weakness of Theresa May makes Brexit negotiations very difficult the leader said. If Ms May is ejected from office she would be replaced by another Conservative leader unless Tory MPs vote to overturn the Fixed Term Parliaments Act to stage another general election. Given the current Conservative weakness that is highly unlikely but Mr Watson added: If Theresa May collapses then the country is in a very bad place and would require a general election. The Prime Minister moved quickly to replace Ms Patel who resigned last night admitting her actions in Israel fell below the high standards expected with Brexiteer Penny Mordaunt. More about: Brexit Priti Patel Theresa May Tom Watson Israel General Election Reuse content In the end Theresa May did not force out Priti Patel because she wanted to. She did it because she had to. At the weekend the prime minister was presented with serious reasons to dismiss the international development secretary. Ms Patel s freelance but secret Middle East foreign policy notably the 12 private meetings this summer with senior Israeli politicians and officials without first informing the Foreign Office or No 10 was institutionalised insubordination. Yet in spite of these major breaches of trust and collective responsibility Mrs May bent over backwards not to fire Ms Patel. She preferred to have her colleague stay especially so soon after Michael Fallon s resignation. Ms Patel was given a ticking-off on Monday but she was cleared to fulfil a pre-arranged visit to Africa at the start of the week. Quick Guide Priti Patel s fall from grace Show Hide 13 August Priti Patel goes to Israel on what she claims was a family holiday which she paid for herself. 22 August Patel met the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The meeting was not authorised in advance and no UK officials were present. She later claimed the Foreign Office was made aware of this meetings and others while her trip was under way. Meanwhile Patel s deputy Alistair Burt and David Quarrey the British ambassador to Israel were meeting Michael Oren a deputy minister at the Israeli prime minister s office according to the Jewish Chronicle. According to notes of the meeting cited by the paper Oren referred to Patel having had a successful meeting with Netanyahu earlier. 24 August Foreign Office officials became aware of Patel s first meetings according to a statement given to the Commons by Burt on 7 November. He did not mention his own visit to Israel. Hansard quotes Burt telling the Commons: The Secretary of State Patel told Foreign Office officials on 24 August that she was on the visit. It seems likely that the meetings took place beforehand. On the same day Patel met Yair Lapid the leader of Israel s Yesh Atid party who describes her as a true friend of Israel . August On an undisclosed date during her trip Patel visited an Israeli military field hospital in the occupied Golan Heights according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. If confirmed this would be a breach of a protocol that British officials do not travel in the occupied Golan under the auspices of the Israeli government. 25 August Patel leaves Israel after 12 work meetings during two days of a 13-day holiday. As well as meeting Netanyahu she also held talks with the public security and strategic affairs minister Gilad Erdan and an Israeli foreign ministry official Yuval Rotem. The meetings were organised by Lord Polak a leading member of the Conservative Friends of Israel. He accompanied Patel on all but one one of the meetings. On her return to the UK Patel inquires about using the UK aid budget to help fund the Israeli army s humanitarian work in the Golan Heights. The idea is rejected because the UK does not recognise Israel s permanent presence in the Golan Heights which were seized from Syria in the 1967 war. 7 September Patel meets Gilad Erdan the minister for public security and is photographed with him on the House of Commons terrace. 18 September While in New York for the UN general assembly Patel has another meeting with Yuval Rotem an official from the Israeli foreign ministry. 2 November Theresa May meets Netanyahu in Downing Street. 3 November Patel told the Guardian that the foreign secretary knew about her trip and suggested the Foreign Office had been briefing against her. Boris knew about the visit. The point is that the Foreign Office did know about this Boris knew about the trip she admitted telling the paper. The BBC s diplomatic correspondent James Landale reported that Patel had undisclosed meetings in Israel without telling the Foreign Office. He quoted one official as saying that Patel had been pushing to get her hands on the Palestinian Authority aid budget and we have been pushing back . 6 November Patel apologises after admitting she gave a misleading account to the Guardian of her trip to Israel. In a statement she admits holding 12 meetings including three with Israeli politicians Netanyahu among them. She said: This quote to the Guardian may have given the impression that the secretary of state had informed the foreign secretary about the visit in advance. The secretary of state would like to take this opportunity to clarify that this was not the case. The foreign secretary did become aware of the visit but not in advance of it. She does not mention visiting the occupied Golan Heights or the two subsequent meetings in September. A No 10 spokesman confirms that Patel was rebuked for breaching the ministerial code. 7 November Patel avoids answering an urgent Commons question about her meetings in Israel because of a longstanding commitment to visit Kenya Uganda and Ethiopia. The international development minister Alistair Burt is put up in her place. Burt points out that Patel apologised for the undisclosed meetings. He adds: The department s view is that aid to the IDF Israeli Defence Force in the Golan Heights is not appropriate. Downing Street initially backs Patel but later confirms that the prime minister was not informed about providing aid to Israel during her meeting the previous day. It is suggested Patel failed to disclose her two subsequent meetings in September with Israeli officials. A Whitehall source says: There was an expectation of full disclosure at the meeting on Monday. It is now clear Priti did not do that. It will now have to be looked at again. But according to the Jewish Chronicle it was No 10 who told Patel not to include her meeting with Rotem in New York in her list of undisclosed meetings for fear of embarrassing the Foreign Office. DfiD confirms previously undisclosed September meetings with Erhad and Rotem in September. 8 November Patel is summoned back to London at the request of the prime minister amid widespread speculation that she will be sacked or given the opportunity to resign. She flies back from the Kenyan capital Nairobi after her meetings in Uganda were cancelled. Was this helpful? Thank you for your feedback. The initial failure to sack Ms Patel reflected the weakness of Mrs May s premiership which has deepened since June s humiliating general election. Paradoxically the same thing is true of Wednesday s reverse decision to push Ms Patel out. If nothing else the two contrasting responses illustrate Talleyrand s cynical dictum that in politics treachery is all a matter of dates. In between the decisions to let her stay and then to force her out it became clear that Ms Patel had again been economical with the facts when she told Mrs May about her recent meetings with senior Israelis. The decisive revelation concerned a meeting at the House of Commons in September with the Israeli public security minister which Ms Patel continued to conceal at the weekend. Although some of the facts concerning this meeting and another in New York with the head of Israel s foreign service were in dispute on Wednesday it added up to a deception too far for No 10. Mrs May would not have summoned Ms Patel back from Uganda less than 48 hours later if she could have avoided it. But a failure to act would have signalled the absolute collapse of her authority. With many Tories already angry over the failure to dismiss Boris Johnson Mrs May could not have survived such a high-profile display of weakness towards a minister to whom Conservative MPs had so conspicuously failed to rally during Commons exchanges on Tuesday. Mrs May may not long survive Wednesday s reluctant wielding of the knife either especially if the two sides in the Tory party s Brexit argument conclude that the ousting has upset the internal house of cards over which Mrs May presides so uneasily. Yet Ms Patel gave the prime minister no alternative. In the past Mrs May seemed a lucky politician. She coasted to the premiership in 2016 as all her rivals stumbled. A year ago she seemed unchallenged and unchallengeable. But she does not seem so lucky now. To lose two cabinet ministers in a week may seem a misfortune especially since one concerned private misconduct while the other involves political misjudgment. Yet the two departures are intertwined. Both reflect the fragility of a government paralysed by Brexit. That reality has not been changed by the resignation of Ms Patel. With thousands online following Ms Patel s plane s progress back from east Africa and the BBC extravagantly sending up a helicopter to track Ms Patel s return from Heathrow for all the world as if she was OJ Simpson Mrs May looked more than ever the victim of events not their master. It may even so be premature to write Mrs May off. In spite of her weakness she has cards still up her sleeve. One is the budget in two weeks time. Although Tory MPs are far from united behind the chancellor Philip Hammond they still recognise that the budget is their party s best hope of changing the political mood. This gives Mrs May some breathing space. Another is the importance of the EU summit decision on the Brexit process in mid-December. Although the party is split over Brexit both wings would probably just about prefer a deal to be struck in Brussels next month that keeps the talks on the rails. This also cuts Mrs May a little slack. A third card remains the continuing failure of the party to coalesce around a successor. Though many MPs are planning for the succession not least the shamelessly ambitious and reactionary Ms Patel who is now free to campaign from the backbenches without the distraction of ministerial duties few Tories are confident that a change of leader would transform their standing. If she can survive the next month Mrs May could then try to play her joker: the larger reshuffle that she should have made in the spring rather than calling the election. For a little while longer Mrs May could remain the least worst option for the Tories. No hard feelings... Priti Patel (@patel4witham) Congratulations to my dear friend @PennyMordaunt - the new International Development Secretary. November 9 2017 By: Reuters | London | Updated: November 9 2017 9:08 pm Penny Mordaunt was promoted Thursday from the work and pensions department to the job overseeing Britain s foreign aid.(Reuters photo) Top News General speaks too muchPradyuman Thakur murder case joins a list of several other botched-up investigationsDelhi battles smog: Odd-even returns schools shut; AAP asks Congress BJP to keep politics asideBritish Prime Minister Theresa May appointed a strong Brexit supporter as aid minister on Thursday following a resignation that left her struggling to ward off open conflict in a cabinet divided over leaving the EU. May is grappling with crises on several fronts. Her team is struggling to make headway in exit talks with the European Union several ministers are embroiled in a wider sexual harassment scandal and her ability to command a majority in parliament is facing its most serious test. Penny Mordaunt 44 who has previously held junior ministerial roles had a short meeting with May at Downing Street during which her appointment as the new International Development Secretary was confirmed. Fellow Brexit supporter Priti Patel resigned from the position on Wednesday over undisclosed meetings with Israeli officials that breached diplomatic protocol. Patel s resignation forced May into her second cabinet reshuffle in a week after former defence minister Michael Fallon resigned in the sexual harassment scandal that has also led to investigations of two other ministers including May s deputy. Mordaunt was elected in 2010 to represent the southern English coastal city of Portsmouth where she also serves as a volunteer reservist for the Royal Navy. She has argued the EU is a failing institution and that leaving would help make Britain safer. Until Thursday s appointment Mordaunt held a junior ministerial post with responsibilies for disabled people health and work within the Department of Work and Pensions. The instability in May s top team adds to what is already a difficult political situation. An ill-judged snap election in June cost her party its majority in parliament and has sapped her authority at a time when she is trying to heal deep divisions within her own party and negotiate Britain s departure from the EU. The European Parliament s Brexit negotiator doused hopes that those negotiations were nearing a breakthrough saying major issues must still be resolved on safeguarding citizens rights. A fresh round of negotiations between Britain and the European Commission began on Thursday. Progress in Brussels is vital to help May keep onside nervous businesses who say they urgently need to know what will happen when Britain leaves the bloc; otherwise they will be forced to start triggering contingency plans. On Wednesday EU envoys discussed delaying the launch of talks with London on a post-Brexit relationship to next year. DEEP DIVISIONS Sixteen months after Britain narrowly voted to leave the EU in a referendum opinions are still split over Brexit at every level from voter to minister. Although May and her cabinet are united in their intention to take Britain out of the EU her ministerial team is seen as a delicate balancing act between lawmakers who are still identified as remainers or leavers according to how they voted in the referendum. In replacing Patel an outspoken leaver with another Brexiteer May looked to maintain that balance. The promotion of a junior minister could also help placate younger members of the party many of whom are angry at her mishandling of the snap election campaign and feel they should be given a chance to regenerate the party s support. Failure to satisfy the party is seen as a risk to May s future as leader. She is reliant on uniting all her lawmakers to pass legislation including the laws needed to enact Brexit which will be up for debate in parliament next week. If she is unable to prove her ability to pass legislation and govern effectively the Conservative party historically intolerant of weakened leaders could seek to replace her although there are currently no clear candidates to do so. For all the latest World News download Indian Express App More Top News Bigg Boss 11 November 9 preview: Benafsha is sent to jail Hina-Mehjabi get into a major fight Abhishek Singhvi in tax soup: officials reject claim that termites ate vouchers slap Rs 56-cr penalty The fall of Priti Patel a rising Tory star came as no surprise in Whitehall. Since she moved to the Department for International Development (DFID) last year the word among officials has been that the only development she is really interested in is of her own career. Patel s overweening ambition was on display at last month s Tory conference with a look at me speech comparing herself to Margaret Thatcher. Her hopes of following in her heroine s footsteps have now been dealt a heavy blow by her slow-motion sacking from the Cabinet. The arch-Eurosceptic will be free to criticise Theresa May from the backbenches notably on Brexit. Dark warnings by Patel s allies that she could inflict hard damage failed to save her skin. Her lack of judgement in her first Cabinet post will dent her prospects in the Tory leadership race when May stands down. By technically resigning before she was sacked Patel will hope to bounce back one day. But the damage could be fatal. She tried to run before she could walk and was exposed as out of her depth one senior Tory told me. May s decision to send Patel to DFID a department she previously wanted to see abolished returned to haunt her as did her appointment of Boris Johnson to the Foreign Office. Both Johnson and Patel were leading lights in the Leave campaign. Both were patently unsuited to their Cabinet roles undermined May and ignored the rules on collective Cabinet responsibility by pursuing their own agendas on Brexit and Israel respectively. UK news in pictures 43 show all UK news in pictures 1/43 8 November 2017 International Development Secretary Priti Patel leaves Heathrow Airport after she was ordered back to Britain following the disclosure that she held further unauthorised meetings with Israeli politicians PA 2/43 7 November 2017 School children and their teacher from Thomas Tallis School look at pictures on display at the Red Star Over Russia exhibition at the Tate Modern in London Philip Toscano/PA 3/43 6 November 2017 A cast of The Wrestlers two men taking part in the Greek sport pankration is lowered into place at Natural Trust s Stowe Landscape Garden near Buckingham PA 4/43 5 November 2017 Protesters in Trafalgar Square London during the Million Mask March bonfire night protest PA 5/43 4 November 2017 Protestors take part in the Justice Now: Make it Right for Palestine march organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign in central London PA 6/43 3 November 2017 People queue outside an Apple store in London to purchase the new iPhone X upon its release in the U.K. The iPhone X is positioned as a high-end model intended to showcase advanced technologies such as wireless charging OLED display dual cameras and a face recognition unlock system Getty 7/43 2 November 2017 British Prime Minister Theresa May greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside 10 Downing Street in London. The pair are today celebrating the centenary of a British declaration that ultimately led to the foundation of the state of Israel Getty 8/43 1 November 2017 Mammatus clouds over St Mary s Lighthouse in Whitley Bay Northumberland Owen Humphreys/PA 9/43 31 October 2017 Women protest outside Downing Street as they join a demonstration demanding rights for working mothers Getty Images 10/43 30 October 2017 England s under 17 s pose with the World Cup trophy as they arrive back to the UK PA 11/43 29 October 2017 Leicester City remembrance day fixture between between Leicester City and Everton at King Power Stadium Plumb Images/Leicester City FC via Getty Images 12/43 27 October 2017 Spiderman steals a seat on the Iron Throne from Game of Thrones at MCM London Comic Con s opening day Rex Features 13/43 26 October 2017 British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood holds up a paper against the governments policy on fracking outside Downing Street in London AFP/Getty 14/43 24 October 2017 Members of a delegation of indigenous and rural community leaders from 14 countries in Latin America and Indonesia The Guardians of the Forest campaign demonstrate against deforestation in London during a stop on their way to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties 23 (COP 23) in Bonn Germany Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty 15/43 23 October 2017 Gemma Davis 23 cleans the dolls house during it s annual clean at the National Trust s Calke Abbey property in Ticknall Derbyshire. 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The Dalai Lama is the patron of the Children in Crossfire charity which was founded by Richard Moore. Mr Moore was blinded by a plastic bullet fired by a British Soldier during the Troubles in Derry. Getty Images In normal times both would have been fired well before Patel was finally shown the door by May last night after being summoned back from a trip to Africa with the media monitoring her every mile of the way. Patel was accused of misleading May the Foreign Office and the media about her freelancing in 12 secret meetings with Israeli politicians including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during her family holiday in August. It appeared to be a naive but deliberate attempt to ignore the rules and change government policy by switching some aid money to Israel at a sensitive time in an always sensitive region. Just before Patel s fate was sealed the Jewish Chronicle claimed that Downing Street was aware of a further meeting between Patel and an Israeli foreign ministry official in New York in September and told Patel not to disclose it and was informed about her talks with Netanyahu soon after they happened. The claims were seen as a desperate last attempt to save Patel. But No 10 insisted that she did not tell it about the Netanyahu talks or another meeting with an Israeli minister at the Commons in September. Patel admitted the affair had been a distraction and offered May a fulsome apology. May knew she would not have a shred of credibility left if she left Patel in her job. But her departure will not buy the Prime Minister much credit. Allowing her to resign rather than formally dismissing her will smack of weakness to some Tory MPs. May s judgement when she named her first Cabinet in July last year looks pretty woeful. Johnson remains in place despite a catalogue of mistakes at the Foreign Office; his humour over-confidence and reluctance to master a brief do not suit the world of diplomacy. Putting noses out of joint around the globe is one thing but he has now made his worst error yet. He might have extended the jail sentence of the British woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe by suggesting she was simply teaching people journalism in Iran when she was actually on holiday. Johnson s grudging half-apology in the Commons on Tuesday has further damaged his standing among Tory MPs. Priti Patel set to be sacked after misleading Theresa May over more secret Israeli meetings Some Tories think May was clever to hand Johnson a senior post so he would crash and burn. I rather doubt that; in doing so he has damaged May and highlighted her weakness. The Prime Minister is back where she was before her Tory conference disaster when senior advisers urged her to restore her authority through a wide-ranging reshuffle that would prise Johnson out of the Foreign Office. Although there was a mini-reshuffle last week when Sir Michael Fallon was fired over allegations of sexual harassment May is unlikely to risk a big shake-up today when she fills the vacuum created by Patel s departure. The timing of the Patel saga is terrible for May. The sex scandal is likely to claim more ministerial victims. The Cabinet Office is investigating Damian Green the de facto Deputy Prime Minister. You cannot have a reshuffle every week. Johnson s fate is intertwined with Philip Hammond s as hardline Brexiteers warn that May cannot shift the Foreign Secretary without also moving the Chancellor the champion of a softer Brexit. But the Budget is only two weeks away and so she can t change her Chancellor now. Maintaining the balance between Remainers and Leavers in any shake-up would be difficult. But support for May is draining away among her ministers and backbenchers with many saying: We cannot go on like this. A full-scale reshuffle is May s last chance to create a functioning government that lasts into the new year rather than stumbles from one day to the next. She will have to take it. More about: Priti Patel Israel Boris Johnson Theresa May Cabinet reshuffle Reuse content

Priti Patel quits UK Cabinet as International Development Secretary

Updated: November 9 2017 9:34 am Priti Patel stepped down as International Development Secretary after assembly Theresa May at 10 Downing Street in London. (Source: AP) Related News Priti Patel resigns as British minister over unauthorised meetings with Israel officialsIndian-starting place Priti Patel resigns as British minister over Israel journey rowUK Cabinet minister Priti Patel beneath hearth over secret Israel meetingsThe simplest minority ethnic woman in British Prime Minister Theresa May s Cabinet Priti Patel became forced to step down as international development minister after reviews emerged of her undisclosed conferences with Israeli officers. The forty five-year-vintage conservative MP had cut brief her ride to Uganda and Ethiopia and flew back to London on Wednesday after being urgently summoned by way of May. Priti Patel met May for just six mins at No 10 Downing Street. In her resignation letter Priti Patel stated her actions fell beneath the excessive standards which can be expected of a secretary of nation . Isn t it a part of her activity to meet foreign diplomats? It is a part of her task profile but she failed to disclose those conferences. Priti Patel at the same time as on excursion in August met numerous Israeli politicians and businessmen with out informing the Department for International Development the Foreign Office or the Prime Minister s Office. She has however denied any wrongdoing the equal day the BBC stated of her meetings. In an interview with the Guardian Priti Patel claimed that foreign secretary Boris Johnson was aware about her Israel go to https://www.memonic.com/user/d77e5a6b-a667-4964-afac-3320407923c4/profile however the Foreign Office officials had briefed towards her. On Monday she turned into compelled to apologise and retract her claims after a assembly with May. She also admitted to meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the usa s security minister. She disclosed that she had met Israeli officers as a minimum 12 instances inside the united states. Fine she did now not disclose the meetings however what is the deal all about? After The BBC first suggested of her undisclosed meetings Priti Patel assured May that she isn t withholding any similarly information about her Israeli visit. This fast modified while reviews emerged that Priti Patel requested her office to divert UK useful resource cash to the Israeli military for relief work within the Golan Heights a disputed territory that the United Kingdom doesn t recognise. More reports followed stating Priti Patel met two senior Israeli officials after her go back from the u . S . A .. An Israeli paper additionally claimed she visited a army health center inside the Golan Heights. How does this affect Theresa May s government? Priti Patel became the second minister to renounce in latest weeks following the exit of Sir Michael Fallon as defence secretary. Fallon stepped down after being accused of sexual harassment a declare he categorically denies. One of May s closest allies Damian Green is likewise being investigated with the aid of the Cabinet s workplace over similar allegations. There additionally had been calls for May to sack her overseas secretary Boris Johnson after his failed intervention in releasing a British girl jailed in Iran. May s government that is in the minority has been hit by way of a string of controversies given that she misplaced the House majority in June. So what next for Priti Patel ? The Guardian says she may want to help practice strain on May from the seasoned-Brexit wing of the birthday party. Her exit is being considered as a blow for Brexiters. For all of the modern day Who Is News down load Indian Express App IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd More Related News Out of my mind: A meltdown UK PM Theresa May replaces defence secy amid sexual harassment scandal Tags: Priti Patel Theresa May The fall of Priti Patel a growing Tory star got here as no surprise in Whitehall. Since she moved to the Department for International Development (DFID) final year the phrase amongst officials has been that the best improvement she is truely interested in is of her very own career. Patel s overweening ambition changed into on show at remaining month s Tory convention with a have a look at me speech evaluating herself to Margaret Thatcher. Her hopes of following in her heroine s footsteps have now been dealt a heavy blow by her gradual-motion sacking from the Cabinet. The arch-Eurosceptic might be loose to criticise Theresa May from the backbenches significantly on Brexit. Dark warnings by way of Patel s allies that she could inflict difficult damage did not store her pores and skin. Her lack of judgement in her first Cabinet post will dent her potentialities in the Tory leadership race while May stands down. By technically resigning before she become sacked Patel will hope to bounce back in the future. But the harm can be fatal. She tried to run before she ought to stroll and turned into exposed as out of her intensity one senior Tory instructed me. May s choice to ship Patel to DFID a branch she formerly wanted to look abolished lower back to hang-out her as did her appointment of Boris Johnson to the Foreign Office. Both Johnson and Patel have been leading lighting in the Leave campaign. Both had been patently unsuited to their Cabinet roles undermined May and overlooked the policies on collective Cabinet obligation through pursuing their own agendas on Brexit and Israel respectively. UK information in pics 43 display all UK information in photographs 1/forty three 8 November 2017 International Development Secretary Priti Patel leaves Heathrow Airport after she become ordered lower back to Britain following the disclosure that she held similarly unauthorised conferences with Israeli politicians PA 2/forty three 7 November 2017 School youngsters and their trainer from Thomas Tallis School observe snap shots on display on the Red Star Over Russia exhibition at the Tate Modern in London Philip Toscano/PA three/forty three 6 November 2017 A forged of The Wrestlers two men taking element in the Greek game pankration is diminished into area at Natural Trust s Stowe Landscape Garden near Buckingham PA four/43 five November 2017 Protesters in Trafalgar Square London at some stage in the Million Mask March bonfire night protest PA 5/forty three four November 2017 Protestors participate within the Justice Now: Make it Right for Palestine march organised by means of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign in significant London PA 6/43 three November 2017 People queue outside an Apple save in London to purchase the new iPhone X upon its release inside the U.K. The iPhone X is located as a high-end version meant to showcase advanced technologies consisting of wireless charging OLED display dual cameras and a face recognition unlock system Getty 7/forty three 2 November 2017 British Prime Minister Theresa May greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outdoor 10 Downing Street in London. The pair are these days celebrating the centenary of a British declaration that in the end caused the muse of the nation of Israel Getty 8/forty three 1 November 2017 Mammatus clouds over St Mary s Lighthouse in Whitley Bay Northumberland Owen Humphreys/PA nine/43 31 October 2017 Women protest outdoor Downing Street as they be part of an indication demanding rights for running mothers Getty Images 10/forty three 30 October 2017 England s under 17 s pose with the World Cup trophy as they come lower back to the United Kingdom PA eleven/43 29 October 2017 Leicester City remembrance day fixture between between Leicester City and Everton at King Power Stadium Plumb Images/Leicester City FC via Getty Images 12/forty three 27 October 2017 Spiderman steals a seat at the Iron Throne from Game of Thrones at MCM London Comic Con s beginning day Rex Features 13/forty three 26 October 2017 British style clothier Vivienne Westwood holds up a paper against the governments coverage on fracking outside Downing Street in London AFP/Getty 14/43 24 October 2017 Members of a delegation of indigenous and rural network leaders from 14 international locations in Latin America and Indonesia The Guardians of the Forest marketing campaign reveal towards deforestation in London in the course of a prevent on their way to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties 23 (COP 23) in Bonn Germany Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty 15/forty three 23 October 2017 Gemma Davis 23 cleans the dolls residence in the course of it s annual smooth on the National Trust s Calke Abbey belongings in Ticknall Derbyshire. The dolls residence changed into used by the circle of relatives s various generations of children between 1860 and the Second World War in their study room PA 16/forty three 18 October 2017 Prince William and Kate chat with West Ham player Mark Noble and manager Slaven Bilic at some stage in the Coach Core commencement rite Getty Images 17/43 17 October 2017 Jellyfish washed up on Sidmouth seashore after typhoon Ophelia hit the United Kingdom Getty Images 18/forty three sixteen October 2017 A red solar seems in Mid-Wales before hurricane Ophelia hits Paul Williams / Alamy Live News 19/43 15 October 2017 The Duchess of Cambridge dances with Paddington Bear as they attend a charities forum occasion at Paddington teach station in London on October sixteen 2017. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry joined kids from the charities they assist on board Belmond British Pullman teach at Paddington Station. The occasion changed into hosted via STUDIOCANAL with help from BAFTA thru its BAFTA Kids programme and earlier than embarking Their Royal Highnesses met the cast and group from the drawing close movie Paddington 2 AFP/Getty Images 20/forty three 15 October 2017 Large waves crash along sea defences and the harbour as hurricane Ophelia techniques Porthleven in Cornwall south west Britain REUTERS 21/forty three 14 October 2017 Hillary Clinton offers a speech as she is offered with a Honorary Doctorate of Law at Swansea University in Swansea Wales. The former US secretary of nation and 2016 American presidential candidate is also journeying the UK to sell her new e book What Happened Matthew Horwood/Getty 22/43 13 October 2017 A lone protestor demonstrates out of doors Workmen Cuadrilla s shale fuel fracking drilling rig near Westby in Blackpool. Engineers have started to build the new rig at the website off Preston New Road in preparation for extracting fuel. The site could be the primary in the UK to extract shale fuel considering that 2011 Getty 23/43 eleven October 2017 Photographs of lacking Syrians are displayed as humans consisting of a set of Syrian girls stand atop a double-decker bus at some stage in an indication by way of Families for Freedom in Parliament Square in London Getty 24/forty three 9 October 2017 Workmen erect scaffolding across the Elizabeth Tower usually recognized known as Big Ben in the course of ongoing renovations to the Tower and the Houses of Parliament AFP/Getty 25/forty three 6 October 2017 An order of service is carried in advance of the funeral carrier for Coronation Street actress Liz Dawn actual name Sylvia Ann Ibbetson outside Salford Cathedral. A former Woolworths keep female from Leeds who first set foot on Weatherfield s famous cobbles in 1974 Dawn who had 4 youngsters died peacefully remaining week at home together with her circle of relatives around her. PA 26/forty three five October 2017 Melanie Kramers of Oxfam poses whilst wearing a mask of Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson with assorted props used in political campaigns in the store room at Oxfam s headquarters in London. The props have all been used inside the charity s campaigns over the years to raise awareness of issues affecting humans in poverty. Today marks seventy five years on account that Oxfam s founding within the center of the Second World War Getty 27/forty three 4 October 2017 A vacationer poses in front of an paintings by Czech Repblic artist Anna Hulacova entitled Ascension Mark I throughout a http://s-inu-she-a-dac-hecou-k.cabanova.com/ photocall for the Frieze Art Fair in London AFP/Getty 28/forty three 2 October 2017 Britain s Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond arrives to speak on the Conservative Party s convention in Manchester Reuters/Hannah McKay 29/forty three 1 October 2017 Protesters retaining flags and placards show along Oxford Street in the course of the yearly Ashura march in London. Thousands of protesters march through London these days to mark Ashura and have a good time the defeat of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Ashura is a Muslim competition of remembrance that falls on the 10th day of Muharram in the Islamic calendar Jack Taylor/Getty 30/forty three 30 September 2017 Protesters maintain up placards all through the London March for Choice calling for the legalising of abortion in Ireland after the referendum declaration out of doors the Embassy of Ireland in important London Chris J Ratcliffe/AFP 31/43 29 September 2017 Former UKIP chief Paul Nuttall (C) speaks with delegates at the UKIP annual conference being held on the The Riviera International Centre in Torquay Matt Cardy/Getty 32/forty three 27 September 2017 England and West Indies enthusiasts experience themselves for the duration of the 4th Royal London One Day International between England and West Indies at The Kia Oval in London Mike Hewitt/Getty 33/forty three 26 September 2017 Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn takes pictures all through Shadow Secretary of State for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy Rebecca Long-Bailey s speech in the principal corridor on day three of the annual Labour Party Conference in Brighton Dan Kitwood/Getty Images 34/43 24 September 2017 Naked bathers enter the water as they take part in the North East Skinny Dip at Druridge bay in Druridge England. The popular annual event takes region across the autumn equinox at Druridge Bay because the solar rises. Participant registration prices were pledged to the intellectual fitness charity MIND. Getty 35/forty three 23 September 2017 Rollo Maughfling Archdruid of Stonehenge and Britain (R) conducts a rite as druids pagans and revellers gather in the centre at Stonehenge hoping to look the solar upward push as they take part in a autumn equinox celebrations at the historical neolithic monument of Stonehenge near Amesbury in Wiltshire England. Several hundred human beings gathered at sunrise ar the well-known historical stone circle a UNESCO indexed historical monument to celebrate the equinox which is a selected moment in time that happens two times a 12 months whilst the Earth tilts neither in the direction of (summer season) or away (winter) from the sun in both the northern or southern hemisphere. 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Spanish police stormed ministries and homes belonging to Catalonia s nearby government the day past in an attempt to try to put a prevent to the place s independence referendum Pep Masip/Alamy 38/43 20 September 2017 One of the final 55m turbine blades is manoeuvred into role. The closing of 116 wind turbines had been established at the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm thirteen kms off the Brighton Coast. It will provide enough energy to supply the equal of half of the homes in Sussex Mike Hewitt/Getty Images 39/43 sixteen September 2017 An armed police officer patrols in Horse Guards Parade in London. An 18-12 months-antique guy has been arrested in Dover in connection with the previous day s terror assault on Parsons Green station wherein 30 humans had been injured. The UK terror threat stage has been raised to critical Jack Taylor/Getty Images 40/43 thirteen September 2017 Demonstrators maintain banners at some stage in a protest to foyer MPs to assure the rights of EU residents residing inside the UK after Brexit out of doors the Houses of Parliament Tolga Akmen/AFP 41/43 12 September 2017 Rupert van der Werff Summer Place Auctions Natural History professional moves a one-year-vintage toddler monstrous skeleton at Summers Place Auctions on September 12 2017 in Billingshurst. A circle of relatives of 4 mammoths found collectively for the duration of constructing works near the Siberian town of Tomsk in 2002 may be on sale on November 21 2017 and are expected to promote within the region of 250 000 - four hundred 000 Rob Stothard/Getty Images forty two/forty three eleven September 2017 Members of the Royal Navy carry components on board the amphibious attack ship HMS Ocean on the Naval Base in Gibraltar before leaving to provide humanitarian assistance and vital aid to British Overseas Territories and Commonwealth partners affected by Hurricane Irma. Britain has pledged 32 million (35 million euros forty two million) in resource and despatched hundreds of troops substances and rescue gadget on numerous flights to the British territories in the Caribbean since the disaster JORGE GUERRERO/AFP/Getty Images forty three/43 10 September 2017 His Holiness The Dalai Lama holds the hand of Richard Moore as he offers a public speak at the topic of Compassion in Action to celebrate two decades of the Children in Crossfire initiative in Londonderry Northern Ireland. The Dalai Lama is the patron of the Children in Crossfire charity which turned into based through Richard Moore. Mr Moore become blinded by using a plastic bullet fired via a British Soldier for the duration of the Troubles in Derry. Getty Images In ordinary times both could have been fired properly earlier than Patel was sooner or later shown the door via May remaining night after being summoned again from a trip to Africa with the media tracking her each mile of the manner. Patel was accused of deceptive May the Foreign Office and the media about her freelancing in 12 secret meetings with Israeli politicians consisting of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the duration of her own family vacation in August. It appeared to be a naive however planned attempt to ignore the rules and trade government coverage via switching a few resource cash to Israel at a touchy time in an constantly touchy place. Just earlier than Patel s fate changed into sealed the Jewish Chronicle claimed that Downing Street was aware of a further meeting between Patel and an Israeli overseas ministry reliable in New York in September and told Patel no longer to reveal it and changed into informed approximately her talks with Netanyahu quickly when they occurred. The claims were seen as a determined remaining try to save Patel. But No 10 insisted that she did now not tell it approximately the Netanyahu talks or some other assembly with an Israeli minister on the Commons in September. Patel admitted the affair have been a distraction and provided May a fulsome apology. May knew she would now not have a shred of credibility left if she left Patel in her task. But her departure will now not buy the Prime Minister a whole lot credit. Allowing her to resign in preference to formally brushing off her will smack of weak point to some Tory MPs. May s judgement whilst she named her first Cabinet in July ultimate year looks pretty woeful. Johnson stays in place despite a listing of errors on the Foreign Office; his humour over-self assurance and reluctance to grasp a short do no longer match the sector of international relations. Putting noses out of joint around the world is one issue but he has now made his worst errors yet. He may have prolonged the jail sentence of the British girl Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe by way of suggesting she turned into certainly coaching people journalism in Iran when she became in reality on excursion. Johnson s grudging 1/2-apology in the Commons on Tuesday has similarly damaged his standing amongst Tory MPs. Priti Patel set to be sacked after misleading Theresa May over more secret Israeli meetings Some Tories suppose May become clever handy Johnson a senior publish so he might crash and burn. I alternatively doubt that; in doing so he has broken May and highlighted her weak point. The Prime Minister is again where she was earlier than her Tory conference catastrophe when senior advisers urged her to restore her authority thru a wide-ranging reshuffle that would prise Johnson out of the Foreign Office. Although there has been a mini-reshuffle closing week whilst Sir Michael Fallon become fired over allegations of sexual harassment May is unlikely to hazard a big shake-up these days whilst she fills the vacuum created by means of Patel s departure. The timing of the Patel saga is horrible for May. The sex scandal is probably to claim greater ministerial sufferers. The Cabinet Office is investigating Damian Green the de facto Deputy Prime Minister. You cannot have a reshuffle every week. Johnson s fate is intertwined with Philip Hammond s as hardline Brexiteers warn that May can't shift the Foreign Secretary with out additionally transferring the Chancellor the champion of a softer Brexit. But the Budget is handiest two weeks away and so she will be able to t exchange her Chancellor now. Maintaining the stability between Remainers and Leavers in any shake-up would be tough. But guide for May is draining away amongst her ministers and backbenchers with many http://mxsponsor.com/riders/kumara-hiranees/about saying: We can not move on like this. A complete-scale reshuffle is May s remaining risk to create a functioning authorities that lasts into the new 12 months rather than stumbles from in the future to the following. She will have to take it. 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Negotiations with Brussels resume these days. Advertisement Continue reading the primary tale The international development secretary Priti Patel above became the second one cabinet minister to end in every week. She resigned after breaching ministerial regulations with the aid of protecting a dozen unauthorized conferences with Israeli officials. Continue reading the main tale Boris Johnson claims Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was engaged in (what Iran considers) subversive interest when she was truely on excursion. Zaghari-Ratcliffe faces the possibility of five greater years in an Iranian prison. Priti Patel claims to were on excursion while she was without a doubt engaged in subversive interest. Priti Patel maintains her process. And so does Boris Johnson. Britain is genuinely thru the searching glass. Paula KirbyInverness Priti Patel and Boris Johnson don t deserve the title of honourable members Rob Merrick relates that Priti Patel confident him that Boris Johnson and the Foreign Office knew of her unauthorised experience to Israel. Only after this became found to be unfaithful did she trade her tale. If a person knowingly makes a announcement this is unfaithful they're by way of definition lying. Unless of direction they may be an honourable member of Parliament. Would she admit this transgression? Of course not. Choosing as an alternative to utter such waffle as: In hindsight I can see how my enthusiasm to engage on this manner might be misinterpret. In a comparable vein Boris Johnson like so many in power could not deliver himself to confess to being fallible. He genuinely said that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe have been in Iran teaching newshounds. Could he admit to being wrong or mendacity? Again sadly no. His pathetic reaction changed into that his phrases were misinterpreted . What is incorrect with those people? G ForwardStirling The Brexit effect evaluation files should be launched now Why the three-week postpone? Surely it doesn t take that lengthy to package 58 fag packets in to a cardboard box? Owen LeedsPreston Why we have to put on a white no longer a crimson poppy I thought that the red poppies were optional? However you wouldn t suppose that if you watched the BBC. Their presenters don t seem to have the liberty to chose now not to put on them. Premier League footballers seem to need to put on them as properly. Ironic isn t it? Does each person keep in mind what the pink poppy honestly represents? I ask because the original meaning has been lost and the navy public family members machine has ambushed it. They ve now became it into a way of manipulating the public into helping the troops and through extension backing contemporary frequently unlawful and needless conflicts. In the First World War the good sized majority of fatalities have been navy. A hundred years on round ninety according to cent are civilian. It is therefore a ways more becoming that human beings buy the white poppy due to the fact that represents all the those who die in conflict. The ongoing refugee crisis is a good indicator of this. If we actually need to transport closer to ending all wars (and we must) we need to take into account each person who is killed from all international locations and no longer just our boys . Colin CrillyTooting We want to assure the rights of EU residents now In a joint letter on 28 September 2017 the TUC and CBI known as for unilateral guarantees each for EU27 citizens within the UK and Britons within the EU27 within weeks . We are nevertheless waiting. New Europeans the CBI the TUC and over five million residents are nevertheless ready due to the fact considering the fact that then not anything has took place. This loss of correct faith and political will is already main tens of thousands of EU27 citizens to go away; the facts have now showed what we have recognized for months EU27 citizens are leaving Britain. One example among the many who contacted New Europeans to inform us their story is Alejandro an IT specialist from Spain. He instructed us: Britain has come to be a form of poisonous environment for my own family and me. I have an excellent job however why should my partner and I should justify our existence on every occasion we attempt to move flat or if our daughter desires treatment on the NHS? The Home Office s antagonistic environment approach is dividing and weakening. The method is not only immoral it's far horrific for British industry for British public offerings for British universities for artwork and culture in Britain for British stores and for British farms. Look at Giorgios one among our enterprise individuals now relocating to Germany; he these days informed us: Many of the pleasant people in my area will vote with their toes whatever the UK makes a decision to do they need to stay in Europe. As nicely because the monetary damage small and medium-sized excessive-tech companies are most at threat there is also a developing human size to this tragedy. This is a angle the CBI conference on Monday didn't deal with. More of our participants are reporting heightened ranges of tension and emotional misery. They are aware that is a right away consequence of loss of clarity about their destiny rights and status within the UK. There has also been a upward push in hate crime in Britain against EU residents. Many are reporting this through New Europeans dedicated internet site page. In these instances it is not suited that the United Kingdom government and the EU need to continue to barter over the rights of EU27 residents in the UK and Britons within the EU. We now ask for others across enterprise and civil society to enroll in us and upload your voices again to the many voices calling for instant complete and unilateral guarantees. The UK authorities has the energy to behave unilaterally as does the EU. They must try this without further delay to avoid an unjust and unfavourable exodus of EU residents from the United Kingdom and the mental soreness of hundreds of thousands of people protected Britons abroad whose most effective crime turned into to settle in some other EU member state. Roger Casale founder and CEO New Europeans Millenials are not the first to enact social change Oh Sirena Bergman (Stop hating millenials): the cause humans criticise your era is exemplified by your arrogant article. I m in my seventies now and it turned into my generation within the Nineteen Sixties (without the help of social media) that marched to ban the bomb camped out at Greenham Common for years to protest towards the American missile website online invented modern girls s lib. Burnt our bras got rid of old obscenity legal guidelines (Lady Chatterley s Lover) confirmed in opposition to the Vietnam War and recommended ladies to go out to paintings when they had been married (nurses and instructors formerly needed to renounce once they married). So I recommend you research social history in a piece greater detail earlier than you arrogantly declare that no one has accomplished it before. We all should work with the era that s to be had: it s what we call progress. But don t make the error of questioning which you re the inventors of social change. Jill BussAlresford More about: Priti Patel Boris Johnson Remembrance Day Brexit Reuse content material The global improvement secretary Priti Patel has accused Foreign Office officials of briefing towards her following claims she broke the ministerial code by using maintaining undeclared conferences in Israel. The cabinet minister insisted that Boris Johnson the foreign secretary changed into conscious earlier of her experience in August this year. Officials have been wrong to assert she had no longer knowledgeable the Foreign Office (FCO) about the visit during which she met the chief of one in every of Israel s political parties and businesspeople even as observed by a major lobbyist she told the Guardian. A BBC document claimed that respectable departmental enterprise become mentioned all through visits on which Patel changed into accompanied through Lord Polak the honorary president of Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI) an influential lobbying corporation. The MP for Witham who's seen as a probable destiny top minister said the Foreign Office ought to correct the misleading influence. But the FCO declined to reply to her name with the intention to cause claims that it is at loggerheads with the Department for International Development (DfID). Patel advised the Guardian: Boris knew approximately the go to. The point is that the Foreign Office did recognize about this Boris knew about the experience . It isn't on it isn't on at all. I went available I paid for it. And there's not anything else to this. It is quite tremendous. It is for the Foreign Office to go away and provide an explanation for themselves she said. Patel s remarks observe weeks of tension among the Foreign Office and Dfid. Last month Johnson regarded to make a play for his branch to absorb DfID pronouncing it become a huge mistake inside the 1990s to divide the Department for International Development from the Foreign Office . He additionally instructed the Sun: If we are going to be this exceptional international campaigner for free alternate then we've got to maximize the fee of overseas engagements. Following the June election when Patel turned into reappointed to DfID two of her junior ministers Rory Stewart and Alistair Burt took joint positions across DfID and the Foreign Office in what was perceived by means of some as a partial victory for Johnson s takeover plans. Number 10 has driven for closer cooperation with the Foreign Office and a greater cross-government useful resource approach. Labour claimed the meetings may additionally have broken the ministerial code of behavior which states that ministers must ensure that no war arises or may want to fairly be gave the impression to arise among their public obligations and their personal hobbies economic or in any other case . Any inquiry ought to embarrass the authorities even as the Israeli high minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in London to mark the centenary of the Balfour Declaration whilst Britain first gave its help for a countrywide domestic for the Jewish human beings in Palestine. Patel claims she turned into on a circle of relatives vacation on 24 August when she met Yair Lapid the chief of Israel s Yesh Atid birthday celebration and a former finance minister in Netanyahu s coalition authorities. Lapid tweeted approximately the assembly at the time saying Patel become a true friend of Israel . יאיר לפיד (@yairlapid) Great to meet with Priti Patel UK Secretary of State for International Development nowadays. A true buddy of Israel. %.Twitter.Com/8q9qSeX7YZ August 24 2017 The BBC stated that Polak stated he organised for Patel to visit Israeli corporations and charities creating technology that would be interesting to a development secretary. Its file said she visited Beit Issie Shapiro (BIS) a leading Israeli disability charity and marketing campaign organization wherein she discussed the possibility of her department forming a protracted-term partnership with the company. Patel said she did no longer talk this sort of partnership. They may have interpreted that but that is not the case she said. It is not as though I am going away and doing deals this is absolutely misleading. BIS did not respond to a request for remark however informed the BBC the Israeli embassy in London had been concerned in setting up the go to. The embassy also did no longer respond to a request for remark. Asked to name the alternative people she met with Polak Patel stated: The stuff that is out there's it as a ways as I am concerned. I went on holiday and met with humans and organisations. As far as I am concerned the Foreign Office have regarded about this It isn't about who else I met I have friends available. The FCO declined to respond to a request for a comment. Johnson tweeted that it was quite proper that Patel met humans and corporations remote places. Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) .@Patel4witham is a good pal