Summary

  • Priti Patel quits as international development secretary

  • This follows a row over unauthorised meetings with Israeli ministers

  • Resignation comes after meeting with Theresa May at No 10

  • The PM says 'it is right that you have decided to resign'

  • Priti Patel offers a 'fulsome apology' for what has happened

  • The international development secretary was summoned back to UK

  1. Welcomepublished at 15:34 Greenwich Mean Time 8 November 2017

    We'll have the latest updates here as Priti Patel faces a battle to save her job.

    The international development secretary has just landed at London Heathrow airport, having been ordered back from an official trip to Africa by the PM.

    Ms Patel apologised on Monday over unauthorised meetings with Israeli politicians in August.

    But it later emerged she had two further meetings without government officials present in September.