Priti’s first interview since becoming Home Secretary, for the Daily Mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7316055/I-want-criminals-terrified-says-Priti-Patel-Home-Secretary-restore-confidence-Britain.html
Our new Prime Minister has promised a radical rewrite of our immigration system. As Home Secretary, I’ll be the one making this happen, because this new re-energised and optimistic Government is determined to get the country back on the road to a brighter future. We’ve waited long enough to get …
Publication: Daily Telegraph By: Priti Patel Date: 21st July 2019 Revolutions about taxation have shaped our history. Magna Carta and the Civil War were about the power to tax. The American Revolution was sparked by a series of taxes and tariffs on tea. More recently, the Thatcher and Reagan “revolutions” …
Publication: The Times By: Priti Patel Date: 9th July 2019 This week Conservative Party members face the same choice as they did in 2016: Leave or Remain. Leaving the EU is the defining issue of our time and there must be no more disrespect for the 17.4 million people who …
We cannot have another Remain-supporting PM acting as a born-again Leaver Over the next week, Conservative Party members must ask themselves one key question: do we elect a leader who will continue to ignore the British people’s decision to leave the EU by dragging on with this Government’s failed strategy …
Publication: Sunday Telegraph By: Priti Patel Date: 23rd June 2019 In the last three years, the British government and the UK parliament have successfully turned our country into an international laughing stock, humiliated by the EU’s negotiators. Mrs May and her Cabinet are chiefly responsible for this. They claimed to …
Publication: The Daily Telegraph (London) Byline By: Priti Patel Date: May 30, 2019 Thursday Time to make the Tory party Conservative again; We need a leader who stands for free markets and toughness on crime, not soulless managed decline The Conservative Party is in danger of tearing itself apart and …
Publication: telegraph.co.uk Byline By: Priti Patel Date: May 17, 2019 Friday 11:29 AM GMT You don’t have to be a political insider to know that Parliament, along with parts of the Government, has colluded in sabotaging Brexit. Voters are witnessing the disintegration of their democratic institutions, business is collectively throwing …
Note: Speech given at the free market road show ‘Europe at the crossroads’ London – 9th May 2019 Introduction “We stand at the crossroads, each minute, each hour, each day, making choices. We choose the thoughts we allow ourselves to think, the passions we allow ourselves to feel, and the …
The British public voted to take back control of our laws, borders and money and any attempt to keep Britain bound to EU rules and controls would defy the democratic will of the people. That means leaving the Single Market and the customs union. As well as ignoring democracy, the …