The UK's Home Secretary quits

As the new prime minister, Liz Truss, is set to name a new cabinet on Tuesday, Priti Patel was thought to be in danger.

Priti Patel quit as UK home secretary on Monday after it was announced that Foreign Secretary Liz Truss would become the new prime minister and lead the Conservative Party.

In her resignation letter to caretaker PM Boris Johnson, Patel said it had been "a great honour and privilege" to serve the country and defended her work as home secretary.

Patel did not back Truss in the Tory leadership race against former Finance Minister Rishi Sunak, but she had said she would like to keep her job under the next leader.

By not taking sides, Patel may have been hoping that whoever won would keep her in her cabinet position.

But news stories from last week said that Patel would be one of the people who would lose their jobs if Truss became prime minister.

Truss is likely to make a big change to the cabinet on Tuesday.

During her time in office, Patel was criticised by the left in Britain for having strict policies on immigration. She has also been accused of being in charge of a rise in knife and gun crime in Britain.

Later, when she gave her resignation, she said that her political opponents supported "criminals, terrorists, people smugglers, and people who have no right to be in the UK."

She wrote, "We have never given up and have never stopped doing what is right to protect the public."

She congratulated Truss on being chosen as the new leader of the Conservatives and said she would support her as prime minister. She also said she would continue to fight for her causes "from the backbenches."

Most people think that Attorney General Suella Braverman will replace Patel.