Analysis: Patel has reason to fear a cabinet reshuffle – but many feel Ukraine has exposed a deeper problem at the Home Office Russia-Ukraine war: latest updatesPriti Patel has faced days of public and private opprobrium before the Home Office’s abrupt U-turn to halt Ukrainian visa appointments for passport holders on Thursday. But has the prime minister already lost faith in the home secretary?One cabinet source said Boris Johnson had been perturbed by the volume of negative headlines around the low number of refugees being granted visas – and speculated that Patel’s future would again come under discussion at the summer reshuffle. Continue reading…
Analysis: Patel has reason to fear a cabinet reshuffle – but many feel Ukraine has exposed a deeper problem at the Home Office
Priti Patel has faced days of public and private opprobrium before the Home Office’s abrupt U-turn to halt Ukrainian visa appointments for passport holders on Thursday. But has the prime minister already lost faith in the home secretary?
One cabinet source said Boris Johnson had been perturbed by the volume of negative headlines around the low number of refugees being granted visas – and speculated that Patel’s future would again come under discussion at the summer reshuffle.