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  • Jan.17.2019: Amber Rudd’s denial of the benefits crisis takes political spin to a new level. Apparently, universal credit failings only affect ‘one or two’ people. Rudd has positioned herself as the sensible pair of hands here to iron out the DWP kinks. Last week’s announcements over benefit changes marked her first major push, declaring a range of tweaks to long-criticised policies. The message was clear: forget the rest, this was a new “compassionate” approach to benefits. The facade did not last long. On the eve of the Brexit vote, the DWP snuck out a change to pension credits that could see couples on universal credit lose as much as £7,000 a year. Frances Ryan, The Guardian.
  • Jan.11.2019: Don’t be fooled by Amber Rudd’s phoney attempt at compassion. Amber Rudd, is far from alone in circling the carcass of Theresa May’s premiership – and her speech today, appropriately in a jobcentre, certainly represents positioning. As well as suggesting the benefits freeze may possibly end next year, her heavily trailed announcement is that the retrospective implementation of the 2-child limit on Universal Credit won’t happen. But the newly born 3rd child of a supermarket worker, nurse or admin assistant – from the “just about managing” families May claimed to champion – will still have their support taken away. May claimed austerity would come to an end: the truth is, those at the top never endured it; for the majority, austerity is set to continue indefinitely. Owen Jones, the Guardian.
  • Nov.19.2018: Amber Rudd condemns UN poverty report in combative return to frontline politics. New work and pensions secretary dismisses ‘disappointing’ study of UK. Amber Rudd has used her first appearance in the House of Commons as work and pensions secretary to condemn a UN inquiry into poverty in the UK over what she said was the “extraordinary political nature” of its language. The UN’s rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights said the govt had inflicted poverty on people through austerity, and called levels of child poverty “not just a disgrace but a social calamity and an economic disaster”. He also attacked Universal Credit, which had been beset by problems during McVey’s time in the job. Peter Walker, The Guardian.
  • Nov.16.2018: Amber Rudd returns as Stephen Barclay named Brexit secretary. Amber Rudd has returned to govt as the new work and pensions secretary 7 months after she resigned. Ms Rudd was forced to resign as home secretary over the Windrush scandal in April. She incorrectly told MPs that there were no targets for the removal of illegal immigrants. Stephen Barclay, a relative unknown, has been chosen by Theresa May as the next Brexit secretary. Ms Rudd, a Remain supporter and May loyalist, is set to shift the balance of the cabinet away from Brexiteers. Oliver Wright, Sam Coates, Henry Zeffman, The Times.
  • Jun.02.2018: Theresa, Please, a Visa. The prime minister should stop refusing entry to doctors and nurses. Amber Rudd, before she resigned as home secretary, sensibly argued that doctors should be excluded from the tier two rules. She was said to be rebuffed by Downing Street. All too predictably. Mrs May has spent the last 8 years of her career, first as home secretary and then as prime minister, wedded to a fundamentally misguided policy of bringing net migration down to the tens of thousands. Linkback: Immigration Policy. The Times.
  • Apr.30.2018: ‘Abandon empathy, all ye who enter’ — the Home Office has long turned MPs to monsters. The Home Office is a muggy, closed department which keeps out fresh air and light. Almost every Home Secretary seems to turn paranoid, defensive and authoritarian. They leave their liberal values, like muddy boots, outside the door. Almost as soon as she was appointed, Rudd seemed to turn into a female Farage. In Oct.2016, she ordered companies to reveal the names of ‘foreign workers’ and accused employers of failing British workers. Then she announced a crackdown on fee-paying foreign students (without whom many of our universities would perish) and made wild promises that she would being down immigration figures to the tens of thousands. I don’t think this was all about doing Mrs May’s bidding. Rudd had turned hard right. As May did before her. Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, The iNews.
  • May.01.2018: Amber Rudd was given bad advice by top civil servants, say friends. Amber Rudd was “badly let down” by senior home office civil servants, friends said yesterday in the wake of her resignation. Glyn Williams, the Director General of Border, Immigration and Citizenship at the Home Office, and Hugh Ind, the Director General of Immigration Enforcement, both advised Ms Rudd in the lead up to last Wednesday’s Home Affairs Committee hearing at which she claimed, wrongly, that there were no targets for the deportation of illegal immigrants. Francis Elliott, The Times.
  • Apr.22.2018: Amber Rudd faces red light on road to No 10 unless she steers out of Theresa May’s shadow. Those who rise quickly always breed resentment. Protégée of George Osborne. For her debut she bowed to the prejudices of May’s adviser Nick Timothy, to announce that companies would have to record and explain the numbers of foreigners in their workforce. She seemed oblivious to the police-state implications of her remarks. dubbed the “Silver Spoon” by her acerbic and much missed ex-husband, the late AA Gill. Rudd’s brother has done well from founding the Finsbury financial PR agency (Finsbury (public relations)Wikipedia-W.svg) (now owned by WPP) but she is neither as rich nor nearly as grand as Cameron, Osborne or Boris Johnson. ... Rudd’s true offence is to be a pro- European. (More... small bio). Adam Boulton, The Times.
  • Apr.20.2018: Amber Rudd boasted of harsher immigration strategy, leak reveals. Amber Rudd privately boasted to the prime minister that she would give immigration officials more “teeth” to hunt down and deport thousands more illegal migrants and accelerate the UK’s deportation programme, a leaked private letter has revealed. In a robust private memo to Theresa May just months before long-settled Windrush migrants were threatened with deportation, Rudd set out her “ambitious” plan to increase removals and focus officials on “arresting, detaining and forcibly removing illegal migrants” while “ruthlessly” prioritising Home Office resources to that programme. The four-page document, sent on Kan.30.2017, reveals Rudd promised the prime minister she would oversee the forced or voluntary departure of 10% more people than May managed when she was home secretary. Robert Booth, Nick Hopkins, The Guardian.
  • Apr.20.2018: Cabinet split over Amber Rudd’s handling of immigration bill. Amber Rudd is being pressed by Brexit-supporting ministers to speed up a bill that is supposed to settle the new immigration system after Britain leaves the EU in March next year. The immigration bill must finalise key issues such as the access that EU citizens will have to Britain’s labour market and whether they will have preferential treatment as visitors. Ms Rudd has said that she will not publish her plans until an official study, due this autumn, on the economic impact. She has said that a deal to protect citizens’ rights has reduced the “urgency” of the bill. Brexiteers believe that the real reason for the delay is that some ministers want to trade preferential access for EU workers for a better outcome in talks with Brussels this summer. Esther McVey, Andrea Leadsom, Oliver Robbins. Francis Elliott, The Times.
  • Apr.18.2018: Amber Rudd wasted her chance to introduce the sensible immigration policies she believes in. The “hostile environment” Theresa May introduced for illegal immigrants has caught legal, long-standing West Indian immigrants to Britain in its net. These people have the right to stay in the country but weren’t automatically sent the documents stating that; meaning they are struggling to meet the onerous test that May introduced. As Home Secretary, May compounded this problem by not including in her 2014 Immigration Act a previous clause that protected longstanding Commonwealth residents of the UK from deportation. Critics were quick to point out that if the problem is the Home Office, then logically it is the Home Secretary’s responsibility. But in Rudd’s house, the living arrangement isn’t so simple. With Rudd being treated more like a tenant than an owner, she finds herself having to abide by policies inherited from her predecessor – whether or not she agrees with them. Rudd is now in a difficult situation where she cannot properly defend herself, as to do so would be to turn on her boss.It’s a recurring theme: Rudd taking May’s lead. With May as her boss, Rudd repeatedly puts her true politics aside to toe the govt line. Continuing on May’s path has not only created problems on a day-to-day basis but put a dampener on any plans to pitch herself as the leadership candidate of the party’s liberal wing when May goes. Katy Balls, The iNews.
  • Mar.09.2018: Home Secretary Amber Rudd campaigned with Nazi saluting activist in Hastings. A group of students from Oxford University Conservative Association were bussed in to Home Secretary Amber Rudd's constituency in Hastings and Rye to campaign for her; one of the six was one George Wright. George is an office holder of the Oxford University Conservative Association, who likes to give Nazi salutes and post them on Facebook for a laugh. All of this was reported by local anti-Tory activists in Hastings on at the time, but (surprise!) it was totally ignored by the mainstream press. Tom Pride, Pride's Purge.
  • Jan.10.2018: Ask a serious question of Amber Rudd. Labour’s shadow minister for Fire and Emergency Services Chris Williamson tackled Home Secretary Amber Rudd about the pitiful inadequacy of this amount of reserve cash. Reserves of £143mn, to set against a budget of £2.3bn. Mike Sivier, Vox Political.

2017

  • Nov.02.2017: Amber Rudd in cover-up of Seig Heiling toffs paid to canvass in Hastings. Amber Rudd has gone to extreme measures to boost her waning popularity; students were paid to travel to Hastings to help canvass for the ailing MP. We found shocking and blatant evidence of genocidal politics with one student, George Wright, proudly performing a Nazi salute. Millionaire Rudd has hired infamous Australian Tory propagandist Lynton Crosby. At GE-2017, Lynton was paid £4,000,000, averaging £85,000 per day. How much is he being paid to promote the dangerously incompetent Home Secretary? Even her fellow MPs don't support her; despite being ordered to attend the canvassing by the Chief Tory whip, none did. Wessex Solidarity.
  • Oct.02.2017: Iain Dale’s 100 most influential people on the Right 2017. Home Secretary. Amber Rudd cemented her reputation as an effective performer in the EU referendum debates. She may have got a lot of criticism for ripping into Boris Johnson, but it made her a contender. She was sent out again to put the Foreign Secretary in his place after his infamous 4,000-word Telegraph article. She radiates competence on the media and was rumoured to be considered for a move to the Treasury had the election result been rather better. She could go far, but her slim majority in Hastings and Rye might well hold her back. Iain Dale, Conservative Home.

2016

  • Oct.05.2016: Amber Rudd faces backlash from businesses over foreign workers. Amber Rudd revealed the govt's proposal to force companies to disclose how many foreign workers they employ, with business leaders describing it as divisive and damaging. Rudd was forced to defend the proposals, insisting they were not xenophobic and that she had been careful about the language used. The proposals, which are subject to consultation, have also been questioned from within the Conservative party. Lord Finkelstein, Neil Carmichael, chairman of the House of Commons education select committee, Jeremy Corbyn. Graham Ruddick, Rowena Mason, The Guardian.

2015

  • Nov.18.2015: Amber Rudd, speech on a new direction for UK energy policy. I am pleased to announce that we will be launching a consultation in the spring on when to close all unabated coal-fired power stations. Our consultation will set out proposals to close coal by 2025 - and restrict its use from 2023. Linkback: Energy Policy. Amber Rudd, Department of Energy and Climate Change, Gov.uk.
  • Jun.28.2015: Fracking: Energy Secretary's advisor received £5,000 election donation from company set to benefit from controversial technique. Addison Projects, part of a £25m engineering company based in Lancashire which has said it wants to play an "active role" in supporting fracking, made the donation to the constituency party of Conservative MP Paul Maynard in March. Mr Maynard was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Ms Rudd after last month’s General Election, a role which requires him to be the Cabinet minister’s "eyes and ears" in Parliament. Addison Projects made its £5,000 donation on Mar.23. Daisy Sands, head of UK energy at Greenpeace, said: "The appointment of an MP with close ties to the fracking lobby as a key adviser to the department in charge of this controversial industry is deeply worrying. This move will only reinforce the impression that this govt is now acting like the political arm of the shale lobby". Ms Rudd used her first interview following her appointment to the Department of Energy and Climate Change to pledge that she would "deliver shale" and change the law to permit drilling under national parks. Cahal Milmo, Andy McSmith, The Independent.