Extradition process has fundamentally improved, migration pact unique: Priti Patel
SECTIONS
Share
Synopsis
The pact has created huge opportunities after the UK home department put in place new immigration rules to help applicants, Patel told ET in an interview, days after the pact was signed by her and foreign minister S Jaishankar who was in London.
Reuters
The new youth mobility route adds to post-Brexit points-based immigration system announced earlier, which Patel said was already of benefit to Indians.
The Migration and Mobility Partnership (MMP) MoU signed at the recent Modi-Johnson summit is unprecedented and unique allowing 3,000 18 to 30 year olds to apply for a 24-month stay in either country and has put mobility at the heart of the relationship, UK Home Secretary (Home Minister) Priti Patel has told ET.
To improve the performance of our website, show the most relevant news products and targeted advertising, we collect technical impersonal information about you, including through the tools of our partners. You can find a detailed description of how we use your data in our Privacy Policy. For a detailed description of the technologies, please see the Cookie and Automatic Logging Policy.
By clicking on the Accept & Close button, you provide your explicit consent to the processing of your data to achieve the above goal.
You can withdraw your consent using the method specified in the Privacy Policy.
Accept & Close
Sputnik International
Cybersecurity has become a critical component of the UK’s homeland security mission, with more robust action from government required to deal with the dangers in this space. This was the message of UK Home Secretary Priti Patel, speaking during the CYBERUK 2021 online event.
Patel noted that as home secretary, it is her duty to keep citizens safe while at the same time protecting economic prosperity, with “cybersecurity and resilience [becoming] increasingly important” aspects of this, particularly given the technology shift during the COVID-19 crisis.
She described the growing impact of cybercrime, declaring that “the scale of this type of criminality is truly shocking.” For example, Patel said that in the year ending September 2020, there were an estimated 1.7 million cyber-dependent crimes experienced by adults in England and Wales, and the overall cost of computer misuse incidents impacting individuals has been estimated to be over £1bn.
India’s External Affairs Minister, Dr. S. Jaishankar
The world is watching India as it battles a debilitating second wave of Covid-19. How did the pandemic turn the tables on India? How did India go overnight from exporting vaccines to importing them? How will this lethal second wave affect India’s economic growth? What about the status of India’s relations with China? And what is the future for UK India relations following the recent Virtual Summit between Prime Ministers Modi and Boris Johnson?
These were just some of the burning questions that attendees from all over the world posted into the chatbox as India Inc. hosted another high-profile edition of its Global Dialogue Series with Dr. S. Jaishankar, India’s External Affairs Minister.