Theresa May has accepted the resignation of Amber Rudd as Home Secretary, Downing Street has said. It comes after another private letter which included 'ambitious and deliverable' migrant deportation targets emerged, after Rudd claimed she knew nothing about them. Rudd appears to have signed the correspondence, which says that she is aiming to 'increase the number of enforced removals by more than ten per cent', in January last year. After Rudd claimed that she had never seen a previous memo referencing immigration targets, the former immigration minister Brandon Lewis suggested that the increase was an ambition rather than a target.
Amber Rudd QUITS as Home Secretary to take 'responsibility' for misleading MPs over targets for kicking out illegal immigrants - as critics say she is 'carrying the can' for Theresa May on Windrush
