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| Amber Rudd, the former home secretary and work and pensions secretary who was once tipped as a future Conservative leader, is to quit as an MP at the coming election, she has said. | Amber Rudd, the former home secretary and work and pensions secretary who was once tipped as a future Conservative leader, is to quit as an MP at the coming election, she has said. |
| Announcing the news to the Evening Standard, Rudd said: “I’m not finished with politics, I’m just not standing at this election.” She later tweeted: “Moving on. Good luck to colleagues in forthcoming GE.” | Announcing the news to the Evening Standard, Rudd said: “I’m not finished with politics, I’m just not standing at this election.” She later tweeted: “Moving on. Good luck to colleagues in forthcoming GE.” |
| Moving on. Good luck to colleagues in forthcoming GE. Amber Rudd reveals she will not stand at next general election https://t.co/MPkxUrQa3b | Moving on. Good luck to colleagues in forthcoming GE. Amber Rudd reveals she will not stand at next general election https://t.co/MPkxUrQa3b |
| Rudd quit the cabinet and gave up the Conservative whip in September over what she said at the time was Boris Johnson’s seeming unwillingness to work for a Brexit deal. However, since then she has sought to return as a Tory. | Rudd quit the cabinet and gave up the Conservative whip in September over what she said at the time was Boris Johnson’s seeming unwillingness to work for a Brexit deal. However, since then she has sought to return as a Tory. |
| On Tuesday, 10 of 21 other Conservative MPs who were stripped of the whip for supporting a backbench-instigated bill seeking to block a no-deal Brexit were readmitted to the party. | |
| Rudd said she planned to meet the Conservative chief whip, Mark Spencer, to formally seek a return: “I’m happy to leave the House of Commons as a Conservative MP.” | Rudd said she planned to meet the Conservative chief whip, Mark Spencer, to formally seek a return: “I’m happy to leave the House of Commons as a Conservative MP.” |
| However, the party has indicated that Rudd, who has a majority of only 346 in her Hastings and Rye constituency, will not be welcomed back. | However, the party has indicated that Rudd, who has a majority of only 346 in her Hastings and Rye constituency, will not be welcomed back. |
| Rudd told the Standard that she had sought to make up with Johnson, with whom she has clashed fiercely several times over the years. | Rudd told the Standard that she had sought to make up with Johnson, with whom she has clashed fiercely several times over the years. |
| “I spoke to the prime minister and had a good meeting with him a few days ago,” she said. “I’m really confident of my position. I will be leaving the House of Commons on perfectly good terms with the prime minister and I want him to succeed.” | “I spoke to the prime minister and had a good meeting with him a few days ago,” she said. “I’m really confident of my position. I will be leaving the House of Commons on perfectly good terms with the prime minister and I want him to succeed.” |
| After she left the cabinet, Rudd condemned Johnson’s use of words such as “surrender” and “betrayal” over Brexit, warning it could incite violence against opponents. | After she left the cabinet, Rudd condemned Johnson’s use of words such as “surrender” and “betrayal” over Brexit, warning it could incite violence against opponents. |
| Comparing Johnson’s language to that of Donald Trump, Rudd said: “The sort of language I’m afraid we’ve seen more and more of coming out from No 10 does incite violence. It’s the sort of language people think legitimises a more aggressive approach and sometimes violence.” | Comparing Johnson’s language to that of Donald Trump, Rudd said: “The sort of language I’m afraid we’ve seen more and more of coming out from No 10 does incite violence. It’s the sort of language people think legitimises a more aggressive approach and sometimes violence.” |
| During the 2016 referendum, where Rudd campaigned strongly for remain, she said of Johnson: “He’s the life and soul of the party but he’s not the man you want driving you home at the end of the evening.” | During the 2016 referendum, where Rudd campaigned strongly for remain, she said of Johnson: “He’s the life and soul of the party but he’s not the man you want driving you home at the end of the evening.” |
| Rudd became an MP in 2010 and climbed the junior ministerial ranks before replacing Theresa May as home secretary in 2016, when May entered Downing Street. However, she was forced to resign two years later after failing to properly account for her role in the Windrush scandal about the treatment of Caribbean Britons. | Rudd became an MP in 2010 and climbed the junior ministerial ranks before replacing Theresa May as home secretary in 2016, when May entered Downing Street. However, she was forced to resign two years later after failing to properly account for her role in the Windrush scandal about the treatment of Caribbean Britons. |
| She returned to the cabinet as work and pensions secretary later the same year, but after Johnson replaced May she appeared increasingly uncomfortable with what she said was his pursuit of a no-deal Brexit. | She returned to the cabinet as work and pensions secretary later the same year, but after Johnson replaced May she appeared increasingly uncomfortable with what she said was his pursuit of a no-deal Brexit. |
| Her decision takes the tally of MPs who have so far decided they will not re-contest their seats at the 12 December election to 50, a relatively high proportion of the Commons. | |
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