Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Climate Change
In office 15 July 2014 – 11 May 2015
Prime Minister
David Cameron
Preceded by
Greg Barker
Succeeded by
Nick Hurd
Member of Parliament for Hastings and Rye
In office 6 May 2010 – 6 November 2019
Preceded by
Michael Foster
Succeeded by
Sally-Ann Hart
Personal details
Born
Amber Augusta Rudd
(1963-08-01) 1 August 1963 (age 60) Marylebone, London, England
Political party
Conservative (until 2019)
Independent (2019–present)[1]
Spouse
A. A. Gill
(m. 1990; div. 1995)
Children
2
Parents
Tony Rudd (father)
Ethne Fitzgerald (mother)
Relatives
Roland Rudd (brother)
Education
Cheltenham Ladies' College
Queen's College, London
Alma mater
University of Edinburgh (MA)
Signature
Website
amberrudd.co.uk
Amber Augusta Rudd (born 1 August 1963) is a British former politician who served as Home Secretary from 2016 to 2018 and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2018 to 2019. She was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Hastings and Rye, first elected in 2010, representing the Conservative Party, and stood down from parliament in 2019. She identifies herself as a one-nation conservative,[2] and has been associated with both socially liberal and economically liberal policies.[3]
Rudd was born in Marylebone and studied history at the University of Edinburgh School of History, Classics and Archaeology. Rudd worked as an investment banker before being elected to the House of Commons for Hastings and Rye in East Sussex in 2010, defeating incumbent Labour MP Michael Foster. Rudd served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change from 2015 to 2016 in the Cameron Government, where she worked on renewable energy resources and climate change mitigation. She previously served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Energy and Climate Change from 2014 to 2015.
She was appointed Home Secretary in the May government on 13 July 2016, and given the additional role of Minister for Women and Equalities in January 2018. Rudd was the third female Home Secretary, the fifth woman to hold one of the Great Offices of State and the fastest-rising politician to a Great Office of State since the Second World War (before Rishi Sunak was made the chancellor of the Exchequer in 2020).[4] She resigned as Home Secretary in April 2018 in connection with the Windrush deportation scandal.[5]
On 16 November 2018, Rudd was appointed Work and Pensions Secretary by Prime Minister Theresa May, succeeding Esther McVey. She was re-appointed by Boris Johnson on 24 July 2019 and succeeded Penny Mordaunt in her previous portfolio as Minister for Women and Equalities. On 7 September, Rudd resigned from his cabinet and resigned the Conservative whip in Parliament, to protest against Johnson's policy on Brexit and his decision to expel 21 Tory MPs.[1] She announced on 30 October that she would be standing down as an MP at the next general election.[6]
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^Syal, Rajeev (10 October 2016). "Amber Rudd's plan to force firms to reveal foreign staff numbers abandoned". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 13 January 2018. Retrieved 21 October 2019. - "Don't call me a racist – home secretary". 5 October 2016. Archived from the original on 25 July 2019. Retrieved 21 October 2019. - Booth, Robert; Hopkins, Nick (20 April 2018). "Amber Rudd boasted of harsher immigration strategy, leak reveals". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 18 October 2019. Retrieved 21 October 2019. - Wilkinson, Michael (4 October 2016). "Amber Rudd vows to stop migrants 'taking jobs British people could do' and force companies to reveal number of foreigners they employ". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Archived from the original on 21 October 2019. Retrieved 21 October 2019. - Ellis, Ralph (29 April 2018). "UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd resigns over immigration scandal". CNN. Archived from the original on 21 October 2019. Retrieved 21 October 2019. - "Amber Rudd MP, Hastings and Rye". They Work For You. Archived from the original on 28 September 2020. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
^Marr, Andrew; Rudd, Amber (11 September 2016). "ANDREW MARR SHOW, AMBER RUDD (transcript)" (PDF). BBC. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 August 2017. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
^"Javid replaces Rudd as home secretary". BBC News. 30 April 2018. Archived from the original on 22 January 2019. Retrieved 24 November 2018. - Hopkins, Nick (29 April 2018). "Amber Rudd letter to PM reveals 'ambitious but deliverable' removals target". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 13 September 2018. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
^Walker, Peter (30 October 2019). "Amber Rudd to step down as MP". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 30 October 2019. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
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