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Priti Patel has been the Conservative MP for Witham in Essex since 2010.

She was appointed Home Secretary when Boris Johnson became Prime Minister in July 2019.

Patel was previously Secretary of State for International Development, but she stepped down in 2017 after it transpired that she had had secret meetings with the Israeli government, breaching ministerial code.

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