Rudd, Amber

Business career

She graduated from Cheltenham and the University of Edinburgh. ^[2] Although she studied history at Rudd University, she graduated from work at JP Morgan & Co. Investment Bank upon graduation . , and then worked in the field of venture capital . In addition, she participated in the filming of the film “ Four Weddings and One Funeral ” as the “coordinator of the aristocracy” and she herself was shot in one of the episodes ^[3] .

Political career

In 2005, she participated in parliamentary elections, but was defeated in the ^[4] .

Parliamentary elections on May 6, 2010 brought Amber Rudd victory in the constituency in East Sussex , where the Conservative Party nominated her. Rudd enlisted the support of 41.1% of voters against 37.1% who had confidence in the strongest of her rivals, Labor Laborer ^[5]

In September 2012, Amber Rudd became Chancellor of the Treasury, George Osborne , and in April 2013, she successfully survived a period of sharp criticism after she negatively commented on her constituency. In October of the same year, she moved to the office of the parliamentary organizer , and on July 15, 2014 she was appointed parliamentary assistant minister (Parliamentary undersecretary of state) to the Department of Energy and Climate Change ^[6] .

On May 7, 2015, regular parliamentary elections were held , in which Rudd won in her former constituency with a result of 44.5% of the vote. The strongest of her rivals, Labor Sarah Owen, received only 35.1% ^[7] .

In Cameron's government

On May 11, 2015, David Cameron formed a new cabinet following the election results, in which Amber Rudd received the chair of the Minister of Energy and the fight against climate change ^[8] .

Already in May 2015, she faced a difficult situation: Halite Energy Group applied to her department for permission to store gas in old salt mines in Lancashire . However, the interests of this company were represented by the lobbying firm Finsbury , owned by the minister’s brother, , an ambiguous man who had previously campaigned for Britain to join the euro zone . Amber Rudd refused to make a decision on this issue, but representatives of the ministry explained this outcome not as a conflict of interest , but as the inexpediency of the project as such ^[9] .

June 9, 2016 took part in the debate of the ITV television company on the referendum on the UK withdrawal from the European Union . Together with Nicola Sturgeon and Angela Eagle, Amber Rudd defended the position of maintaining membership in the confrontation with former London mayor Boris Johnson , Andrea Leeds and , who argued the need to exit ^[10] .

In May Governments

On July 13, 2016, she was appointed New Home Secretary of the United Kingdom in Theresa May’s office ^[11] .

March 22, 2017, a terrorist attack on Westminster Bridge in London .

May 22, 2017 after a concert by American singer Ariana Grande, an explosion occurred in Manchester .

On June 3, 2017, a new terrorist attack took place in London in the form of a van hitting passers-by and subsequent attacks by terrorists with knives.

On June 8, 2017, in the early parliamentary elections, Rudd won Hastings and Paradise in his constituency, gaining 46.9% of the vote and improving his previous result by 2.3%. However, the advantage over the main rival (this time it turned out to be the Labor Laborer Peter Chauney), unlike the 2015 elections, was reduced to a minimum - 46.2% of voters supported it ^[12] .

On June 11, 2017, she received the portfolio of the Minister of the Interior in the second government of Theresa May .

On the night of June 19, 2017, an assault on believers at a in London using a camper van took place ^[13] .

On April 29, 2018, she resigned to Prime Minister Theresa May , which was granted. Rudd made this decision due to the scandal that arose after the Guardian newspaper published on April 28 a letter from Rudd to the Prime Minister in 2017, in which she stated as her goal to increase the number of deportations of illegal immigrants by 10%, which contradicted her statement in a statement to members of the House of Commons about lack of awareness of the existence of such targets by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (on April 27, the same newspaper published an internal memorandum for cabinet members on the same issue). 200 parliamentarians signed a letter of protest against such a policy, and the entire episode was perceived as an injustice committed by the authorities against immigrants of the “generation ” ^[14] . That was the name of the military transport ship that delivered immigrants from the Caribbean in 1948 as part of a campaign to help the Commonwealth countries suffering deprivation due to participation in the Second World War on the side of Great Britain . At that time, the attraction of labor from abroad was encouraged, and by law of 1971 immigrants of the “Windrush generation” received the right to stay in the country forever. However, in 2012, when Theresa May was Minister of the Interior, legislation was tightened, and some of those immigrants were recognized as illegal immigrants. ^[15]

On November 16, 2018, she returned to the second May government, having received the portfolio of the Minister of Labor and Pensions after the resignation of Esther McVie ^[16] .

In Johnson's government

On July 24, 2019, she was re-appointed Minister of Labor and Pensions, as well as Minister for Women and Equality in the formation of the Government of Boris Johnson ^[17] .

On September 7, 2019, she resigned, accusing Boris Johnson of “political vandalism” and saying that she had entered the government with a clear understanding - leaving the EU without an agreement on its conditions is one of the possibilities, but now does not believe that the conclusion of such an agreement is the main purpose of the cabinet ^[18] .

In 1990, Amber Rudd married the writer , has two children from him: Flora and Hector. In 1995, the couple divorced ^[19] .

• Amber Rudd . politics.co.uk. Date of treatment September 1, 2015.
• The Rt Hon Amber Rudd . UK government. Date of treatment September 1, 2015.
• Rt Hon Amber Rudd . UK Parliament. Date of treatment September 1, 2015.