Priti Patel, 43, has been revealed as the new jobs minister in PM’s re-shuffle
Married mother-of-one is daughter of Ugandan shopkeeper Sushil Patel, 64
Mr Patel moved his family to Britain in the 1970s to flee dictator Idi Amin
Stood for UKIP in 2013 but claimed to step down 90 minutes into candidacy

Britain’s new jobs minister is the daughter of a Ugandan shopkeeper who fled east Africa in the 1970s and joined UKIP after arriving into the UK.
Priti Patel, 43, was revealed as the new jobs minister in Prime Minister David Cameron’s latest re-shuffle which came as part of a bid to shed his image of being out of touch.
Ms Patel, a married mother-of-one, will be only the second Asian woman to sit in the Cabinet, after former Foreign Office minister Baroness Warsi.
She is the daughter of Sushil Patel, 64, who stood for UKIP two years ago and caused a furore after trying to withdraw his candidacy for the party just 90 minutes after it was announced.

Married Priti Patel, 43 (right), who has been revealed as the new jobs minister, is the daughter of Ugandan shopkeeper Sushil Patel, 64, (left) who fled east Africa for Britain in the 1970s and briefly stood for UKIP

As a Eurosceptic, she is a believer in low taxes and is outspoken about the need for welfare cuts. She has also hit the headlines for saying she supported the death penalty for the most serious crimes.
The mother of a six-year-old son fled to Britain with her parents when dictator Idi Amin persecuted the Indian community and ordered them out within 90 days.
‘My parents were kicked out of Uganda,’ she said in an interview. ‘They came to the UK with nothing, worked hard and set up a successful shop business.
‘There was a desire to work hard and to be successful so you didn’t have to rely on anybody else. Coming from a country where you’re persecuted means that you want to work hard and to contribute to the society where you end up.

Ms Patel (pictured outside Downing Street yesterday), who has been an MP for five years, was made Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury last year and has now been revealed as the new jobs minister by the PM

‘You become patriotic because you make your new country your home, and, as a result, you live and play by its values’.
Educated at a grammar school in Watford and Keele University, Ms Patel joined the party under John Major and her first job was at the Conservative Research Department.
The new Employment Minister is deputy to Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith, with responsibilities including jobseekers’ allowance and youth unemployment.
Although she is not a secretary of state, Mr Cameron confirmed she will attend Cabinet, as did her predecessor Esther McVey.
The role is likely to involve overseeing controversial cuts to welfare benefits, in efforts to slash £12billion in this area while protecting pensions.
Ms Patel wrote in a blog last year that under Labour the welfare system ‘bound people to dependency’. She expressed concern that ‘claimants who have never worked … enjoy a lifestyle that many other households could not afford.’
The Witham MP has been a leading critic of soft sentencing and votes for prisoners, and said in 2011 that the death penalty should be reintroduced for the most serious crimes.
She defected from the Tories in 1995 to James Goldsmith’s Referendum Party, but returned to the Conservatives two years later when William Hague became leader and promised not to join the Euro without a referendum.

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Kampala– Opposition Uganda Peoples’ Congress has lashed at the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon’s choice of picking President Museveni as peace broker in the ongoing Burundi political crisis.
UPC party Spokesperson, Okello Okello says it wouldn’t be Museveni as a perfect choice because he has maintained power through change of the Constitution to granting himself life presidency a project Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza is trying to implement.
″Mr.Museveni has no moral authority to intervene in the Burundi matters because he and Nkurunziza are not any different, ″ said Mr.Okello.″ Take Rwanda for example after the genocide, Museveni acted partisan and we all know who he supported, his army and the Rwandan army massacred Hutu refugees in Congo forests and we all know that.″ added Mr.Okello.
In the recently concluded United Nations High level Thematic Debate on strengthening co-operation between the UN and Regional Organizations in maintenance of peace, security, Human Rights and Development, the UN secretary General Ban Ki Moon, is reportedly having asked President Museveni to intervene in the ongoing political turmoil in Burundi.
However, Presidential Press Secretary, Tamale Mirundi dismissed UPC’s augment as narrow that can’t be compared to that of the UN. Mirundi further revealed that what many political players have forgotten is the role that was played by Museveni in pacifying Burundi in the accord that was signed in Arusha.
“Burundi was pacified by UN with the assistance of late President, Julius Nyerere first before late President Nelson Mandela came in. After Mandela, it is Museveni who came and with that he can’t be any wrong choice for another peace initiative.” Mirundi said.
He added “Museveni is best suited to handle Burundi because he was part of the medical team that prescribed the medicine for Burundi then and even now he will find solutions to the current crisis.”
Lucima said his party (UPC) disagreed with the UN Secretary General’s choice sighting events that brand Museveni as the ″wrong man″ for the job.
Addressing journalists at the party headquarters this afternoon May 13, 2015; Mr. Lucima expressed their disappointment with the UN. He went ahead to point out that from the East African Community, the potential candidate for this job should have been Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete.
″We as UPC support that the UN should choose a person with credibility and from a democratic country like Tanzania and Jakaya Kikwete would be the ideal person.″ Mr. Okello said.
At the UN general assembly, Museveni, in his keynote address said that African Problems require African interventions and not from the west.
But Lucime despised the above statement saying such words coming from a leaders whose citizens’ rights are abused is basically a shortcut for impunity.
“There are no rights categorical for Africans and Whites, they are all the same and universal.″ Mr.Okello said. He added, “This is a bid to find sanctuary to international standards against the brutality and promotion of impunity.”
President Museveni this morning joined other East African Community (EAC) leaders in Dar es Salaam for EAC extra ordinary summit on the crisis in Burundi.As the meeting was underway, an army was reported to have staged a coup against Nkurunziza

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A Burundi army general says senior officers are “dismissing” President Pierre Nkurunziza, amid unrest over his bid to be re-elected to a third term.
Maj Gen Godefroid Niyombareh announced that a national salvation committee had been set up to run the country.
However, it is not clear how much support he and the other officers have.
President Nkurunziza is currently in Tanzania meeting other East African leaders to discuss the crisis. His aide dismissed the coup claims as “a joke”.
President Nkurunziza has rejected calls to postpone next month’s election.
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Gen Niyombareh, in a statement read to reporters in a military base, said he did not recognise the leadership because the president’s bid for a third term violated the constitution.
Soldiers have surrounded the offices of the national broadcaster in the capital, Bujumbura.

Gen Niyombareh’s “national salvation committee” comprises at least five other army and police generals.
One eyewitness told Reuters that crowds who had earlier been out on the streets of the capital protesting against the president were now cheering and celebrating his apparent dismissal.
The unrest began on 26 April and has led to the deaths of more than 20 people.
Tens of thousands of Burundians have fled to neighbouring states in recent weeks.

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