PM slaps down minister over 'secret' trip
International development secretary Priti Patel is rebuked for failing to tell the Foreign Office about a series of meetings in Israel.
The international development secretary Priti Patel is rebuked for failing to tell the Foreign Office about a series of undisclosed meetings in Israel. Lord Ricketts, a former head of the Diplomatic Service, tells us the situation is unprecedented. Plus what's the significance of the extraordinary purge of princes in Saudi Arabia? And the latest news on tax avoidance from the Paradise Papers and a special report from Allan Little on how Russia has remembered and rehabilitated its revolutionary rulers - a hundred years since Red October.
Picture: Priti Patel
Credit: Department for International Development.
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