Priti Patel: When holidays go wrong [View all]

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When a holiday ends in protracted negotiations with the Israeli military it's usually a sign something has gone badly wrong

Most family holidays don’t tend to involve protracted negotiations with the Israeli Defence Force (IDF).

That’s the first thing that strikes you in reading the Priti Patel story. For anyone who hasn’t been up on this, the international development secretary has been forced to apologise after holding 12 secret meetings, while on a private holiday in the Middle East.

And the story raises all sorts of questions, not least over what sort of holiday Patel had organised.

After all, lots of people struggle to switch off from work on holiday, but there’s a significant difference between fighting the urge to check your emails and finding yourself in high level covert meetings with a foreign power.

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