Amber Rudd

thumb|Amber Rudd 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 being 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 and economically liberal policies. Quotes 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. "Prevent anti-terror scheme must change, says Jeremy Corbyn", BBC News, 26 March 2017 Leaving the EU is harder than a lot of people thought it was going to be "Brexit: Tusk says UK MEPs could sit for 'months or longer'", BBC News (16 April 2019) 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? From a review of Boris Johnson's Unleashed, "Boris's split personality is revealed in his memoir – he's more Beano than Gladstone", The Independent (7 October 2023) External links Category:1963 births Category:Living people Category:Conservative Party (UK) politicians Category:Politicians from London Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom Category:Government ministers of the United Kingdom Category:Women politicians in England Category:Women born in the 1960s Category:Home Secretaries (UK)