“might well be more than happy to attend genuine weddings”
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Amber Rudd
Amber Augusta Rudd is a British former politician who served as Home Secretary from 2016 to 2018 and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2018 to 2019. She was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Hastings and Rye, first elected in 2010, representing the Conservative Party, and stood down from parliament in 2019. She identifies herself as a one-nation conservative, and has been associated with…
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After much soul-searching and a lot of legal advice, we decided to take the ultra-conservative route and return all the money.
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2026· 6 entries
“After much soul-searching and a lot of legal advice, we decided to take the ultra-conservative route and return all the money.”
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“not something we are definitely going to do”
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“I think the key thing is here that the prime minister and his family paid the correct amount of tax that they were due.”
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“I want to make sure those who view despicable terrorist content online, including jihadi websites, far-right propaganda and bomb-making instructions, face the full force of the law.”
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The Guardian: Drugs, drones and heat: Amber Rudd and David Lammy begin search for answers to prisons crisis
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2025· 1 entry
The Guardian: Yvette Cooper risks ‘Windrush-type’ scandal by rushing asylum response, says Amber Rudd
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2024· 1 entry
The Guardian: Ryanair reports record €1.9bn profit as Amber Rudd joins board
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2022· 2 entries
The Guardian: British Gas owner appoints Amber Rudd as a director
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The combined firm was rebranded FGS Global
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2021· 1 entry
FGH announced it was merging with Sard Verbinnen & Co
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2020· 2 entries
The Guardian: Amber Rudd protest isn’t a threat to free speech | Letter
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The Guardian: Amber Rudd hits out at 'rude' Oxford students after talk cancelled
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2019· 18 entries
“Existing electoral law seeks to control the spending and supervise the message whenever we go into elections. Does the Minister share my concern that it might not be adequate to control and supervise the advertising and campaigning that takes place on social media, where most of our constituents are more likely to get the message and where it is so important to ensure adequate controls?”
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“I congratulate my right hon. Friend on his role today. I remember when my right hon. Friend resigned from the Cabinet because of his disagreements with Brexit policy—a route I subsequently became familiar with—but does his experience not remind him that there are honourable, different opinions across this House about how we leave the European Union and about how we interpret the will of the people, and the essential thing is that every Member here representing their constituency has a role to pl”
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“I have had heartbreaking meetings with constituents from Hastings regarding the loan charge, where I have heard tragic and sad stories about the destruction of families and their finances. Although I of course welcome the review that is to take place, may I urge the Chancellor to reconsider the position of not suspending the loan charge during the review period?”
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“I congratulate my hon. Friend on his elevation to this important role. While many of us on the Government Benches, and in fact across the House, are concerned about the impact on currency markets of the obvious contradiction between the Benn Act and the Government’s consistent position that we are leaving on 31 October, everybody on the Government Benches is united in the knowledge that the real damage to this country would be done by the Labour party getting any place in government. Every time”
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“I must raise my concerns about the Attorney General constantly saying that this Parliament is dead. This Parliament was elected in 2017. It reflects the divisions in this country, the divisions in our communities and the divisions in our families. The failure is that we have not yet reached a compromise. Many of us long to leave the European Union, as we set out in the referendum, but are frustrated by the fact that we have not been able to find a consensus among the different factions. May I ur”
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“I thank the hon. Lady for raising this. I am determined to ensure that local authorities are correctly informed so that they can support not only the managed migration pilot but managed migration overall. That is one of the things we hope to learn from the Harrogate pilots. We will be giving them a small amount of extra support to ensure that we can learn properly from the jobcentre. Perhaps that will be one of the things we will look out for.”
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“I want to take this opportunity to say that the new enterprise allowance has been a great success in supporting businesses, and I am pleased with how it has been picked up by MPs and constituents. As for the one-year policy that the hon. Gentleman referred to, we must ensure that we get the right balance between supporting enterprise and making sure that taxpayers are supporting businesses that have a strong future. If he feels so strongly about it, he will no doubt want to make a submission to”
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“I simply do not recognise the hon. Gentleman’s characterisation either of my ministerial colleagues or of the intention of universal credit. The <span id="1155" class="column-number" data-column-number="1155"></span>hon. Gentleman describes his jobcentre in some detail, and I expect he knows some of the work coaches who do such a remarkably good job engaging with individuals and trying to help them into work. I ask him to remember that before he describes the system as not fit for purpose. The f”
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“The right hon. Gentleman is no doubt aware that, in addition to the advances, the housing benefit run-on and the legacy benefits run-on will come in next year, and they are effectively part of the transitional arrangements being offered to the pool of people who are having their migration managed. He has raised this matter before. I have bent over backwards to ensure that we get funds to people as soon as possible, and former Secretaries of State have done the same, but I know that some people s”
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“The hon. Lady asks a lot of detailed questions, and I will do my best to answer them, but if I have not done so, I hope she will write to me so that I can complete my response. A discretionary hardship fund will be in place for the individuals who are being managed-migrated from legacy benefits to universal credit in Harrogate, which will be the equivalent of the legacy benefits being paid in addition that were going to be received next year, in June 2020, for people who are being moved from one”
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“It is disappointing to hear from the hon. Lady that her constituent has had such a difficult time. I hope that we will be able to erase any errors that have taken place in the past and ensure that we have a seamless process in future. I would just tactfully point out to her that the system this replaces had many more problems. I would like this system to be perfect, and it is my aim to get it as close to that as possible. The previous system, which had six different benefits in three different p”
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“I will always look at evidence, and if the hon. Lady wants to show me any of the evidence she has been on the receiving end of, I would be happy to look at it. I point out to her, as I have done previously, that overall we will be spending more money under the universal credit system by 2023-24 than would have been spent under the previous system, so I am not entirely in agreement with the conclusions she draws, but we will always take an open mind to the facts that she presents.”
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“I know that my hon. Friend has raised this on several occasions, and he will be aware that the Department has already made changes that will affect <span id="1152" class="column-number" data-column-number="1152"></span>the run-on of housing benefit and additional legacy benefits by the end of next year. I will always look at finding ways to get those essential funds to the people who really need them as early as possible.”
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“I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his questions. I am aware that there is, quite rightly, a lot of interest in how we will assess the pilot, and I have been looking at that myself. Ultimately, the pilot will be a success if we get as many people as we expect across from the legacy benefits to universal credit as effectively and efficiently as possible. I want to ensure that we give them the right support, and that they have an effective transfer. The process we have at the moment will be base”
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“I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for his comments and for his time in discussing with me a constituency issue that contributed to my responding in an accelerated way to the plans I was already formulating for looking again at how we support people with terminal illness diagnosis. Yes, I will continue to proceed with that at pace, because I am very conscious that the people who have that sort of diagnosis need as much support as possible, as soon as possible.”
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Rudd endorsed and campaigned for former Justice Secretary David Gauke who was standing as an Independent in South West Hertfordshire against the Conservative candidate
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Career landmark: Minister for Women and Equalities (2019–2019).
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Career landmark: member of the 57th Parliament of the United Kingdom (2019–2019).
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2018· 2 entries
Career landmark: Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (2018–2019).
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“Parliament has to reach a majority on how it”
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2017· 2 entries
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Full Fact rated the claim “A speech by the Home Secretary Amber Rudd has been reported as a hate incident.” That’s true, but if someone has reported it to the police and given that reason then they have to record it as ‘hate incident’. They only record a ‘hate crime’ if they think something illegal has probably happened..
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Career landmark: member of the 57th Parliament of the United Kingdom (2017–2019).
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2016· 1 entry
Career landmark: Home Secretary (2016–2018).
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2015· 3 entries
Career landmark: Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom (2015).
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Career landmark: member of the 56th Parliament of the United Kingdom (2015–2017).
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Career landmark: Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change (2015–2016).
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2014· 1 entry
Career landmark: Minister for Climate Change (2014–2015).
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2013· 1 entry
Career landmark: Assistant Whip (2013–2014).
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2010· 4 entries
Representing the Conservative Party, and stood down from parliament in 2019
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Career landmark: member of the 55th Parliament of the United Kingdom (2010–2015).
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Defeating incumbent Labour MP Michael Foster
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Career landmark: substitute member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (2010–2013).
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1995· 1 entry
After Gill entered into a long-term relationship with journalist Nicola Formby
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1990· 1 entry
And they had two children, including the journalist Flora Gill
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1963· 1 entry
Born 1963-08-01.
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