 Patel released an apology for her actions, and corrected her remarks to "The Guardian", which she said gave the false impression that the Foreign Secretary knew about the trip before it happened, and that the only meetings she had had were those then in the public domain.According to Downing Street, May learned of the meetings when the BBC broke the story on 3 November.When May hosted Netanyahu the previous day for the Balfour Declaration centenary, she was not aware that her minister had had meetings with him in August.