Theresa May has appointed Sajid Javid as her new Home Secretary after Amber Rudd resigned after misleading MPs over home office immigration targets. Sajid Javid has been the Communities Secretary since 2016 overseeing the response to the Grenfell tower atrocity.
Ms Rudd, who quit late on Sunday night, had repeatedly denied she knew about plans to kick out ‘illegal’ foreigners. But after a letter she wrote to Theresa May about “ambitious targets” was published, she resigned.
Mrs May accepted the Cabinet Minister’s resignation following two weeks of revelations over how the top Tory had lost control of the Home Office. The Home Secretary, 53, claimed not to have known about immigration removal targets until leaks from within her department appeared to undermine her.
Ms Rudd was thought to be preparing to tough it out, insisting she genuinely did not know about the targets when she gave evidence to the Commons Home Affairs Committee last week.The bookies’ favourites to become Home Secretary were Sajid Javid, Michael Gove, Jeremy Hunt, Karen Bradley, and James Brokenshire.
