• UK Home Secretary Priti Patel Resigns After Truss Wins PM Race, writes Letter to Boris Johnson

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    UK Home Secretary Priti Patel Resigns After Truss Wins PM Race, writes Letter to Boris Johnson

    In her letter of resignation, she stated that she will support Liz Truss as our new prime minister and expressed her congratulations on being chosen as our new leader.

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    In a letter to departing Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday, UK Home
    Secretary Priti Patel announced her resignation from the Cabinet and that she
    will support Liz Truss from the opposition benches in Parliament.



    It
    was widely anticipated that the senior minister of Indian descent, who was
    close to Johnson, wouldn't be on Prime Minister-elect Truss' top team.



    The
    50-year-old Patel outlined her numerous accomplishments in the position in her
    resignation letter to Johnson, including the Migration and Mobility Partnership
    she forged with India and other nations to combat illegal immigration.



    In her letter of resignation, she
    stated that she will support Liz Truss as our new prime minister and expressed
    her congratulations on being chosen as our new leader.



    Once
    Liz officially assumes office and a new Home Secretary is named, I have decided
    to continue serving the nation and the Witham constituency from the opposition
    benches. I will advocate for many of the programmes and causes that I have
    supported both inside and outside of government from the backbenches, she
    declared.



    She wrote, referring to some of her
    work as the head of the Home Office, "I have signed new international
    returns agreements with India, Albania, Serbia, Nigeria, and Pakistan, with
    work underway to negotiate more agreements and to remove more people who should
    not be in this country and who have abused our hospitality."



    Another
    minister of Indian ancestry, Suella Braverman, is anticipated to receive the
    Home Secretary's job.



    Gujarati-origin
    Patel, who was named Home Secretary by Boris Johnson in July 2019, said it was
    an honour to implement reforms for the nation's immigration and police systems
    as well as the battle against terrorism.



    Her
    letter also makes reference to a contentious Rwandan asylum policy that deports
    unlawful immigrants there as part of a larger effort to combat illegal
    immigration.



    She writes that in order to guarantee
    the complete implementation and delivery of the New Plan for Immigration and
    Nationality and Borders Act, it is essential that your successor support all
    facets of these policies on illegal immigration.



    The 50-year-old
    Johnson supporter and MP for Witham in Essex was one of a select group of
    front-line ministers who decided not to publicly endorse either of the two
    candidates for Tory leadership, Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak.



    Earlier on
    Monday, she complimented her former boss in front of MPs from the opposition,
    ordering them to stop interjecting.



    She remarked,
    "I'm proud to work for this administration and I'd like to thank the Prime
    Minister, Mr. Boris Johnson.