Priti Sushil Patel is a British politician who was the Home Secretary between 2019 and 2022.
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Patel was born in London on March 29, 1972, to Sushil and Anjana Patel. Her parents immigrated to the United Kingdom in the 1960s and settled in Hertfordshire.
They established a newsagent chain in London and the South East of England. She grew up in a Hindu household. Sushil, her father, ran for UKIP in Hertfordshire in 2013.
Her paternal grandparents were born in Gujarat, India, before moving to Uganda and opening a convenience store.
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Priti Patel served as Secretary of State for International Development from 2016 to 2017. She is a Conservative Party member.
At the 2010 general election, she was elected MP for Witham, a new seat in Essex, and was re-elected in 2015, 2017, and 2019.
Patel was appointed Minister of State for Employment in Cameron’s government and served as vice-chair of the Conservative Friends of Israel. Her socially conservative stances have garnered her attention.
Patel, a long-time Eurosceptic, was a key figure in the Vote Leave campaign for Brexit during the 2016 referendum on the United Kingdom’s membership in the European Union.
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