Penny Mordaunt has been named as the new International Development Secretary following Priti Patel's resignation last night. 

Boris Johnson came under fresh pressure last night after Iranian state TV said comments he made were “proof” that a British mother in a Tehran jail was acting against the nation.

Priti Patel has quit the Cabinet following showdown talks with Theresa May over her secret meetings with Israeli officials during a family holiday in the summer.

Priti Patel was “accelerated” to the Cabinet because she is a “great British Asian representative”, a senior Tory MP said today.

Priti Patel was racing back to the UK at the order of Theresa May this morning amid mounting expectation that she will be sacked over her secret meetings with Israeli officials.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian mother currently being held in an Iranian prison, has asked to meet with Boris Johnson amid scathing criticism of his handling of her case.

Priti Patel is facing the sack after it emerged she had two further secret meetings with senior Israeli officials without telling Theresa May.

International Development Secretary Priti Patel failed to tell Theresa May about her plan to give UK aid money to the Israeli army, it has emerged.

MPs have rounded on Boris Johnson after he refused to apologise for a major gaffe that could land a British mother five more years in an Iranian jail.

Priti Patel suggested sending UK aid cash to the Israeli army following secret meetings with senior officials in the country, including its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Boris Johnson has admitted he "could have been clearer" in his remarks about a British mother facing five more years in an Iranian jail over his claims she was training journalists in the country.

Emily Thornberry has called on Boris Johnson to resign as Foreign Secretary if his gaffe about Nazanin Ratcliffe’s reasons for being in Iran add five more years to her prison sentence.

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Priti Patel has been forced to apologise for holding 12 meetings with senior Israeli figures - including the country's Prime Minister - while on a family holiday in the country.

The husband of a British woman jailed in Iran has accused Boris Johnson of a blunder which could see his wife facing five more years behind bars.

US intelligence chiefs withheld a report which cast doubt over Saddam Hussein’s access to weapons of mass destruction, Gordon Brown has said.

Boris Johnson has come out in support of his colleague Priti Patel after she was accused of conducting overseas business without informing the Foreign Office.

Priti Patel has sparked anger within the Tory party after it was reported she held a series of meetings with senior Israeli figures without telling the UK foreign office.

The UK elections watchdog is looking into whether Russia meddled in the Brexit referendum.

Theresa May will today declare vehement opposition to anti-Semitism, saying Britain “will not stand for it”. 

The Government will be able to spend its £13bn foreign aid budget on British overseas territories hit by humanitarian crises, after changes to international rules agreed in Paris.

Conservative manifesto commitment to challenge the agreed definition of what constitutes Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) could undermine cross-party consensus on the 0.7% spending target, says Lord Collins.

Theresa May has offered her support to the United States following last night’s terror attack in New York which killed eight people.

North Korea was most likely behind the cyber-attack that hit the NHS earlier this year, a Home Office minister has declared.