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Also known as Amber Augusta Rudd, Rt. Hon. Amber Rudd

British politician (born 1963)

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Australia
Active from
1978-05-29
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  • I think that now is exactly the wrong time to have a pause. What we have seen this week reinforces the need to make sure we have active communities trying to stop people becoming radicalised. I do recognise what Baroness Warsi said about needing to make more of an effort to sell [Prevent] to communities. We need to do better there to show that this is a safeguarding initiative, it's about protecting young people.
  • Leaving the EU is harder than a lot of people thought it was going to be
  • Even when you spoke to Boris in person, you never knew who you’d be addressing but when he gets home and takes off the mask, which version remains? The caricatured orator or the caring statesman. Does he even know? Or is he, like Janus, actually both versions equally, and happy to choose the mask that suits that day’s audience best?

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Key facts

Prime minister
Theresa May Boris Johnson
Preceded by
Esther McVey
Succeeded by
Thérèse Coffey
Born
Amber Augusta Rudd , ( 1963-08-01 ) 1 August 1963 (age 62) , Marylebone , London, England
Party
Conservative (until 2019) Independent (2019–present)
Spouse
A. A. Gill ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1990 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1995 ) ​
Parent
Tony Rudd (father)
Relatives
Roland Rudd (brother)
Education
New Hall School Cheltenham Ladies' College Queen's College, London
Alma mater
University of Edinburgh ( MA )
Website
amberrudd .co .uk

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Encyclopedic overview

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, and has been associated with both socially liberal and economically liberal policies.

Rudd was born in Marylebone and studied history at the University of Edinburgh. 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.

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