Further blow to May as Patel's future in doubt

Aid minister Priti Patel was forced to cut short a foreign trip on Wednesday to answer questions over undisclosed meetings with Israeli officials, posing a new test of Prime Minister Theresa May's authority as she negotiates Brexit.Weakened by losing her party's majority in a June election, May faces another crisis after her defence minister resigned in a sexual harassment scandal, leaving the government with "the stench of death" to it, according to an opposition lawmaker.Patel, a Brexit campai