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Shamed Tory ex minister Priti Patel will be handed a plum job in Boris Johnson's top team as the new Prime Minister launches his first reshuffle tonight.

Theresa May sacked Ms Patel from her job as International Development Secretary after it emerged she had conducted 'off-the-books' meetings with senior Israeli officials during a 'family holiday'.

But Johnson is expected to trumpet her return to the Cabinet as part of a record number of ethnic minority politicians in the team.

Employment minister Alok Sharma is also expected to be given a Cabinet-level position.

MPs Rishi Sunak, Oliver Dowden and Robert Jenrick will get promotions, as will former Sports minister Tracey Crouch who resigned over delays to the stake cap on FOBT gambling machines.

At the time of her resignation, Ms Patel admitted her actions “fell below the high standards that are expected of a Secretary of State.”

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She went on to offer a “fulsome apology”, saying: “While my actions were meant with the best of intentions, my actions also fell below the standards of transparency and openness that I have promoted and advocated.”

Ms Patel met with the Israeli public security minister in Parliament and a senior official from the Israeli foreign ministry in New York a week later.

And she visited an Israeli field hospital in the Golan Heights during her “holiday” - the UK does not recognise the Isreali-occupied area.

The Foreign Office and Downing Street were unaware the meetings had taken place and diplomatic officials were not present.

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It's also emerged Johnson plans to make multi-millionaire Andrew Griffiths an advisor.

Griffiths hit headlines last month after it emerged he had loaned Johnson his £9.5m Westminster townhouse to use as a campaign HQ.

Labour ’s Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office Jon Trickett MP said: "Before he is even appointed Prime Minister, one of Boris Johnson's first acts is to dish out a powerful job in Number 10 to his super-rich pal who lent him his luxurious house in Westminster for the Tory leadership campaign.

“The public would be forgiven for coming to the conclusion that Johnson’s friends can buy influence within the new administration.

"It's blindingly obvious – Boris Johnson and his government will act only in the interest of the wealthy elite."