Witham: MP calls on Foreign Office to provide more support for grieving family (From Braintree and Witham Times)

don't quite get this.surely all victims of violence abroad get help of the foreign office especially those involving a fatality.

This is odd, so Ms Patel didn't actually do anything, other than ask the foreign office to continue doing their job?

Using a completely distraught family for a popularity contest, well, that's how it looks.

The Foreign Office doesn't always do enough to support British tourists and ex-pats who run into difficulties abroad. Ms Patel is simply doing her job as a constituency MP by raising this case in Parliament.

The idea that she would have done so without the knowledge or consent of the bereaved family is frankly laughable, like the level of ignorance displayed by the previous comments on this thread.

Allectus

Rubbish the FO only give limited support in countries where British Government presence is not prevelant.

Priti Patel only raises soft items in order to increase her brand cachet within her party - bear in mind that she could potentially lose her ward under a redrawing of the boundaries then you'll realise she is acting in self preservation.

Silver Ender

You obviously don't have a clue what you're talking about.

You claim that "the FO only give limited support" where "British Government presence is not prevalent", but you also state that the FO works "with very limited resources". How is it possible for the FO to offer "unlimited support" with "very limited resources"? The truth is that, even where there is a large consular presence, the FO offers only a very limited service to British tourists and ex-pats, and there are many well-documented cases of its standard of service falling sadly short of what we are entitled to expect.

Priti Patel is simply fulfilling her role as a good constituency MP by intervening on the behalf of, and at the request of, a bereaved family in a difficult situation. It's difficult to avoid the conclusion that your criticism has more to do with your having some kind of ideological axe to grind than any real objection to the way she does her job.

Even the FO wouldn't claim to offer "unlimited support" to British tourists and ex-pats, even where there is a large consular presence. There are frequent complaints about complacency and poor levels of service.

Priti Patel, scoring easy political points while avoiding the larger and more complicated issues?

Perish the thought...