Why did Amber Rudd resign as Home Secretary in 2018?
Brexit negotiation failures
Disagreements over Conservative Party policy
Personal reasons
Answer
Amber Rudd resigned as Home Secretary in 2018 after it was revealed that she had misled Parliament about the Windrush scandal, in which hundreds of people who had arrived in the UK legally as children were wrongly detained or deported. Rudd had initially claimed that the Home Office had not made any "systematic errors" in its treatment of the Windrush generation, but later admitted that she had been wrong.
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