Its not unusual to be stuck in a landing stack when arriving Heathrow. Nothing beats circling over the likes of Slough, Milton Keynes, & Basildon after a 12 hour haul. I suspect Patel was hoping to be held in a stack for a few hours today.
If/when it turns out she didn't pay for it from her own purse, but was a jolly financed by a lobbying organisation, then she will surely be gone. Whichever, she has a lot of explaining to do as she has broken the ministerial code. Horrible obnoxious individual.
Of course, if she's claimed on...
Given how it panned out for the likes of Aitken & Archer when they went down that route, maybe he thought better of it. Keep his head below the parapet. Well, until yesterday anyway....