Start your Independent Premium subscription today.She replied: “Yeah, but also let’s not forget we are not changing our approach to refugees and asylum seekers, which is very different to a points-based system for employment and that particular route.”Ms Patel later suggested that her family may have been dealt with under arrangements for those fleeing mistreatment abroad, rather than those for migrant workers, as they had faced persecution in Uganda.Her parents came to the UK from the east African state in the 1960s and set up a chain of newsagents. “My family were persecuted in East Africa so there is a complete difference between the two.”Minister insisted that changes were 'not about my background or my parents'Independent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium. Minister insisted that changes were 'not about my background or my parents' In the 1960s her parents emigrated to the UK and settled in Hertfordshire. Due to the sheer scale of this comment community, we are not able to give each post the same level of attention, but we have preserved this area in the interests of open debate. And there is nothing else to this. They wouldn’t have qualified would they?”Ms Patel replied: “This is a very different system to what has gone on in the past and don’t forget this is a points-based system based on the labour market.”Ferrari replied: :But you wouldn’t be here, home secretary.”At that point, Ms Patel appeared to accept that her system – which grants points for skills, having a job offer and working in an in-demand sector – would have excluded her parents, telling the presenter: “Yeah, but also let’s not forget we are not changing our approach to refugees and asylum seekers, which is very different to a points-based system for employment and that particular route.”Ferrari told her: “It’s very interesting, isn’t it? Patel was born on 29 March 1972 to Sushil and Anjana Patel in London.She attended a comprehensive girls' school in Watford before going on to study economics at After graduating, Patel became an intern at Conservative Central Office (now known as In 1997, Patel left to join the Conservative Party having been offered a post to work for the new leader In 2000, Patel left the employment of the Conservative Party to work for Patel then moved to the British multinational alcoholic beverages company, In December 2015, Patel voted to support Cameron's planned bombing of After becoming Prime Minister, in July 2016 May appointed Patel to the position of International Development Secretary.On taking the position, Patel stated that too much UK aid was wasted or spent inappropriately, declaring that she would adopt an approach rooted in "core Conservative principles" and emphasise international development through trade as opposed to aid.In September 2016, she expressed opposition to the construction of 28 Patel was critical of the UK's decision to invest DFID funds to support the In March 2020, it was reported that while serving as International Development Secretary Patel was alleged to have "harassed and belittled" staff in her private office in 2017.It was also reported that, following the meetings, Patel had recommended that the Department for International Development give international aid money to field hospitals run by the Israeli army in the Boris [Johnson] knew about the visit. Your parents, I understand, came from Uganda and were very successful in setting up newsagents. As far as I am concerned, the Foreign Office have known about this. The point is that the Foreign Office did know about this, Boris knew about [the trip]. We must differentiate between the two.”Ms Patel later told BBC Radio 5 Live that her parents had faced persecution in Uganda, pointing out that the changes she is introducing do not affect the way in which the UK will deal with people fleeing persecution overseas.“This is not about changing rules on asylum and refugees and people that are being persecuted around the world – the two are fundamentally different so I think it is wrong to conflate the two,” said the home secretary. They went on to beat the West Indies in Manchester and therefore win the series 2-1Demonstrators protest outside the Tate Modern in London over proposed job losses in the wake of the Covid-19 lockdown. 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