Amber Rudd

Amber Rudd (2016)

Amber Augusta Rudd (born August 1, 1963 in London ) is a British politician who was a member of the Conservative Party until 2019 . She was the UK's Interior Minister from July 13, 2016 to April 29, 2018, and Minister for Labor and Pensions from November 16, 2018 : first in the May II cabinet , then in the Boris Johnson I cabinet, succeeding the resigned Esther McVey . On September 7, 2019, she resigned from her position; at the same time she resigned from the Tory faction in the British House of Commons and from her party.

life and career

Early life

Amber Rudd is the youngest of four children from Tony Rudd and Ethne Fitzgerald. She studied history at the University of Edinburgh and graduated in 1986 with a master's degree. She then worked as an investment banker in London and New York. She is divorced and has a daughter and a son.

Parliamentary career

Rudd was first elected to the House of Commons in the May 2010 election as a candidate for the Hastings and Rye constituency in East Sussex and was re-elected as a member of Parliament in May 2015 .

Prime Minister David Cameron appointed her to his 2nd cabinet as Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change in 2015 .

After Cameron's resignation, Theresa May appointed Rudd to her cabinet as Home Secretary ; after the 2017 general election , she kept the office in the May II cabinet . In April 2018, it came under fire in connection with incidents involving the children of the so-called "Windrush Generation". These are immigrants from former British colonies in the Caribbean who British governments brought in between 1948 and 1971 when there was a labor shortage. Many of them, who were children when they immigrated and who entered on their parents' passports, did not apply for UK passports because their parents were guaranteed unlimited residency in the UK. In many cases, however, there are no documents that can prove this. Efforts have now been made in the British Home Office to regard these people as illegal immigrants and to expel them. Rudd, who was accused of making contradicting statements on the matter, resigned on April 29, 2018.

Amber Rudd was appointed to the Boris Johnson Cabinet as Secretary of Labor in July 2019 . She announced her resignation from this office on September 7th and at the same time resigned from the lower house of her party. She justified this with the disappointment that Johnson's cabinet is investing a lot of work in preparing for an exit from the EU without an agreement, but is making little effort to reach an agreement with the EU.

On September 7, 2019, she resigned from her office and at the same time resigned from the Conservative Party in protest against Boris Johnson's radical Brexit course. Thérèse Coffey , the previous Secretary of State for the Environment, was nominated as her successor on September 8, 2019 .

On October 30, 2019, Rudd announced that he would not run for a seat again in the 2019 British general election .

Others

Rudd was the third woman to serve as the UK Home Secretary (the first was Jacqui Smith from 2007 to 2010, the second Theresa May from 2010 to 2016). She is the fifth woman to hold one of the four Great Offices of State , the four highest offices of Prime Minister , Foreign Secretary , Home Secretary or Chancellor of the Exchequer in the British Cabinet; since 1945 no other politician rose to one of these four offices so quickly.

Web links

Commons : Amber Rudd  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Presentation to Parliament
• They Work For You (homepage as MPs)

Footnotes

1. ↑ https://mnre.gov.in/file-manager/annual-report/2015-2016/EN/Chapter%2011/chapter_11.htm#6
2. ↑ Amber Rudd appointed new Home Secretary itv.com, July 13, 2016
3. ↑ Windrush generation: Who are they and why are they facing problems? BBC , April 18, 2018
4. ^ British Home Secretary Rudd resigned. Spiegel Online, April 29, 2018, accessed on the same day.
5. ↑ British Interior Minister Amber Rudd resigned ( Memento of May 4, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) FAZ.net, April 30, 2018
6. ↑ guardian.co.uk: Amber Rudd resigns hours after Guardian publishes deportation targets letter
7. ^ Zamira Rahim: "Amber Rudd: Work and pensions secretary resigns and quits Tories as Boris Johnson's government plunged into further chaos" The Independent of September 7, 2019
8. ↑ Stefanie Bolzen: Amber Rudd resigns: Great Britain is sinking deeper into the Brexit chaos . September 8, 2019 ( welt.de [accessed September 8, 2019]).
9. ↑ New British Labor Secretary: Therese Coffey replaces Amber Rudd. Retrieved September 8, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Stuttgart Germany: Europe: Therese Coffey succeeds British Labor Minister Rudd. Retrieved September 8, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Peter Walker Political correspondent: Amber Rudd to step down as MP . In: The Guardian . October 30, 2019, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed October 30, 2019]).
12. ↑ BBC: Interview with Amber Rudd. In: Andrew Marr Show. September 11, 2016. From News.BBC.co.uk, accessed September 20, 2019 ( PDF ; 94 kB), p. 11.