Priti Patel is a British politician who served as Home Secretary from 2019 to 2022 under Prime Minister Boris Johnson before resigning following the latter’s resignation. A self-proclaimed Thatcherite, she was briefly involved with the Referendum Party during her early career. She also worked for the PR firm Weber Shandwick before actively joining politics. Following recommendation by David Cameron, she was elected MP for Witham at the 2010 general election and has since been re-elected three times. She was the Minister of State for Employment and was vice-chair of the Conservative Friends of Israel under Cameron’s government and led the “Vote Leave” campaign for Brexit during the 2016 referendum on UK’s membership of the European Union. She was later appointed Secretary of State for International Development by new Prime Minister Theresa May in July 2016, but was asked to resign in November 2017 following revelations about her unauthorized meetings with the Government of Israel breaching the Ministerial Code. She briefly worked for Viasat as a strategic adviser before being appointed Home Secretary by Boris Johnson in July 2019.