{"id":8089,"date":"2018-04-29T22:13:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T21:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=8089"},"modified":"2018-04-29T22:13:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T21:13:58","slug":"home-secretary-amber-rudd-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/home-secretary-amber-rudd-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Home secretary Amber Rudd resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8090\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Amber.jpg\" alt=\"Amber\" width=\"302\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Amber.jpg 302w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Amber-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/>Amber Rudd has resigned as home secretary, as the government struggles to contain the fallout from the Windrush generation scandal.<br \/>\nA statement from Downing Street said Theresa May had accepted the home secretary\u2019s resignation.<br \/>\nRudd\u2019s handling of the crisis has been heavily criticised, with over 200 MPs signing a letter accusing her of making up immigration policy \u201con the hoof\u201d in an effort to overcome the scandal.<br \/>\nIt was the beleaguered Rudd\u2019s insistence that she knew nothing of Home Office targets for immigration removals, which was later undermined by documents, including a letter she had written to Downing Street and leaked to the Guardian, that drew the most criticism.<br \/>\nAfter facing a barrage of calls to resign she finally announced her decision to quit on Sunday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/home-secretary-amber-rudd-resigns\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amber Rudd has resigned as home secretary, as the government struggles to contain the fallout from the Windrush generation scandal. A statement from Downing Street said Theresa May had accepted the home secretary\u2019s resignation. Rudd\u2019s handling of the crisis has been heavily criticised, with over 200 MPs signing a letter accusing her of making up &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8091,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8089\/revisions\/8091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}