{"id":33223,"date":"2014-05-09T11:43:28","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T06:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=33223"},"modified":"2014-05-09T11:43:28","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T06:13:28","slug":"british-indian-mp-threatens-legal-action-media-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/british-indian-mp-threatens-legal-action-media-report","title":{"rendered":"British Indian MP threatens legal action over media report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/british-indian-mp-threatens-legal-action-media-report\/indian-origin-british-mp-priti-patel\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33224\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"33224\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/british-indian-mp-threatens-legal-action-media-report\/indian-origin-british-mp-priti-patel\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/05\/Indian-origin-British-MP-Priti-Patel.jpg?fit=176%2C219&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"176,219\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Indian-origin British MP Priti Patel\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/05\/Indian-origin-British-MP-Priti-Patel.jpg?fit=120%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/05\/Indian-origin-British-MP-Priti-Patel.jpg?fit=176%2C219&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright wp-image-33224 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Indian-origin-British-MP-Priti-Patel.jpg?resize=158%2C197&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Indian-origin British MP Priti Patel\" width=\"158\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/05\/Indian-origin-British-MP-Priti-Patel.jpg?w=176&amp;ssl=1 176w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/05\/Indian-origin-British-MP-Priti-Patel.jpg?resize=120%2C150&amp;ssl=1 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 158px) 100vw, 158px\" \/><\/a>Indian-origin British MP Priti Patel has threatened to take legal action against a weekly newspaper article and Twitter comments that accused her of colluding with tobacco companies.<\/p>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s Observer weekly Sunday published an article that accused Priti Patel of being an ex-tobacco lobbyist and said her stance on opposing plain packaging on cigarettes was motivated by this connection, which dated back to 2001.<\/p>\n<p>While denying any conflict of interest, Patel, the MP for Witham in Essex, said this link with &#8216;Big tobacco&#8217; has been exaggerated, the Essex Chronicle reported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I worked in consultancy for 10 years and worked with charities, car companies, not-for-profit organisations, I had hundreds of clients,&#8221; the news report quoted Patel as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Patel said it was completely inaccurate to call her a lobbyist as she only provided advice or consultancy.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to the Twitter comments, she said: &#8220;To suddenly see all these horrible defamatory comments has been awful, I am horrified by this experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will be following this up with The Observer because the article was misleading and inaccurate and if I have to take further action against those on social media I will,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The weekly claimed it had obtained documents showing the Conservative Party MP had lobbied on behalf of British American Tobacco while working for Weber Shandwick, one of the world&#8217;s largest public relations companies.<\/p>\n<p>According to the article, Patel, a member of David Cameron&#8217;s influential policy advisory board and chair of the all-party parliamentary small shops group, argued that plain packs will be the &#8220;final nail in the coffin&#8221; of hundreds of newsagents.<\/p>\n<p>Patel was for several years a lobbyist working for British American Tobacco, in a team that sought to derail government plans for an advertising ban and responded to a Department of Trade and Industry investigation into alleged cigarette smuggling, The Observer report had stated.<\/p>\n<p>(Source: IANS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian-origin British MP Priti Patel has threatened to take legal action against a weekly newspaper article and Twitter comments that accused her of colluding with tobacco companies. 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