There is another piece about Patel in today's printed version of the Independent but it is not on their website yet.
Saw this too.
Questions in Parliament over £1.4m government contract with Tory chairman's firm Quintessentially Exclusive: Quintessentially is being paid to set up networking hospitality events between civil servants and investors 4th March 2020, 10:20 pm Updated 13 minutes ago
Conservative co-chairman and Quintessentially joint founder Ben Elliot is a nephew of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
Ministers are facing questions in parliament over £1.4m of taxpayers’ money spent on a luxury concierge firm owned by the Conservative party chairman.
Quintessentially, which was jointly founded by Tory co-chairman Ben Elliot, is being paid £400,000 a yearto help the government attract would-be investors into the UK for post-Brexit deals.