Priti Patel promoted as MoS in Cameron-led UK govt
May 11, 2015
London
Priti Patel, 43, daughter of Gujarati immigrants from Uganda who was re-elected from the Witham constituency in the recently-concluded British elections, has been promoted as minister of state for employment as Prime Minister David Cameron constituted his new council of ministers on Monday. Patel was appointed to the junior post of exchequer secretary in July 2014. Now elevated as a minister of state she will attend cabinet.
Patel as ‘Indian Diaspora Champion’ had taken the lead to organise Gujarat Day in the House of Commons in the previous Cameron-led government.
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