New UK jobs minister is Ugandan-born

May 13, 2015

A Ugandan Asian refugee who fled the country with her parents as a child after then president Idi Amin expelled the Indian community is the new job miniter in the UK, reports the UK's Daily Mail.


A Ugandan Asian refugee who fled the country with her parents as a child after then president Idi Amin expelled the Indian community is the new jobs miniter in the UK, reports the UK's Daily Mail.

Priti Patel, 43, was revealed as the new jobs minister in Prime Minister David Cameron's latest re-shuffle.

Priti is the daughter of Sushil Patel, 64, who moved his family to Britain more than 40 years ago and ran a post office in rural Norfolk before settling as a shopkeeper in West London.

She told the Daily Mail in an interview that: "My parents were kicked out of Uganda. They came to the UK with nothing, worked hard and set up a successful shop business."

Mother of one Priti, who has been an MP for five years, was made Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury last year, overseeing tax policy, and was a regular in TV studios during the election campaign.

 

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