Amber Rudd named work and pensions secretary

Rudd's appointment, confirmed this afternoon (16 November), came a day after McVey resigned the office in protest of the government's draft Brexit agreement. She was home secretary from July 2016 until April this year, when she resigned her post after she "inadvertently misled" the Home Affairs Committee regarding immigration policy following the Windrush scandal. Rudd was also minister for women and equalities between January and April this year; secretary of state for energy and climate change from 2015 to 2016; a parliamentary under-secretary for climate change from 2014 to 2015; a...