Dame Priti Sushil Patel is a British politician who served as Home Secretary from 2019 to 2022. A member of the Conservative Party, she was Secretary of State for International Development from 2016 to 2017. Patel has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Witham since 2010. She is ideologically on the right wing of the Conservative Party; she considers herself to be a Thatcherite and has attracted attention for her socially conservative stances.
Official portrait, 2021
Patel on the panel of Britannia Unchained
Patel greeting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Heathrow Airport on 12 November 2015
Patel visiting British troops in 2017
Minister of State for Development and Africa
The Minister of State for Development and Africa, formerly the Minister of State for Development and the Secretary of State for International Development, is a senior minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom.
Minister of State for Development and Africa