Dame Priti Patel is the Conservative leadership candidate who best understands the party’s members, a former Cabinet minister has argued in a new public endorsement. Wendy Morton, the MP for ...

Dame Priti Patel is a long-time ally of Boris Johnson, having served as his home secretary throughout his time in No 10. As a one-time supporter of the death penalty, she was regarded as a hard ...

Dame Priti Patel has said she will stand to be Tory party leader, joining five other hopefuls who have also thrown their hats into the ring. Kemi Badenoch, Mel Stride, Tom Tugendhat, James ...

The joint chair of the Conservative Party says Priti Patel is 'a talent' as it emerges she is to become the shadow foreign secretary in Kemi Badenoch's cabinet. Nigel Huddleston adds, 'She's loved ...

Dame Priti Patel will stand in the Conservative leadership race after being “urged to run” by fellow MPs, The Telegraph has learned. The former home secretary has decided she will make an ...

Priti Patel defended her past criticisms of Donald Trump on Sunday, telling Laura Kuenssberg that “times have moved on”. The shadow foreign secretary began her interview with the BBC presenter ...

Dame Priti Patel has launched her fiercest attack on the Prime Minister since joining the Tory leadership campaign as she battles to make the final four candidates. The former home secretary homed ...

Dame Priti Patel has said the party’s 170,000 members will choose who becomes chairman if she wins the Tory leadership contest. In what many will view as an attempt to woo grassroots Tory voters ...

Priti Patel today vowed to 'democratise' the Conservatives if she replaces Rishi Sunak as party leader. The former home secretary set out her plans to hand more power to the Tories' grassroots ...

The contest to succeed Rishi Sunak as head of the Conservative Party has begun. The six contenders hoping to take the leadership role include Dame Priti Patel, Kemi Badenoch, James Cleverly ...