Priti Patel, a Senior Cabinet Minister, should have been well aware of the Rules of Government and the need to toe the line. After all she was on a private holiday and it was quite immature of her to have conducted 'official' meetings with Israeli officials while in that country. She was also economical with the truth with the Prime Minister initially and had she not offered her resignation, she would most certainly have been sacked. Still, I don't think this isolated incident will in any way dampen her ambition to one day lead the Conservative Party. Theresa May has enough of problems these days -not to mention the unfinished Brexit business and am sure she could well have wished she didn't have to lose yet another Senior Minister in such a short space of time.
Mervyn Maciel
