Amber Rudd
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The Right Honourable Amber Rudd MP |
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| Home Secretary | |
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Assumed office 13 July 2016 |
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| Prime Minister | Theresa May |
| Preceded by | Theresa May |
| Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change | |
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In office 11 May 2015 – 13 July 2016 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Ed Davey |
| Succeeded by | Greg Clark (Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) |
| Parliamentary Undersecretary of State for Climate Change | |
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In office 15 July 2014 – 11 May 2015 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Greg Barker |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer | |
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In office 10 September 2012 – 7 October 2013 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Sajid Javid |
| Succeeded by | Rob Wilson |
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Member of Parliament for Hastings and Rye |
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Assumed office 6 May 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Michael Foster |
| Majority | 4,796 (9.4%) |
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1 August 1963 London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | A. A. Gill (m. 1990; div. 1995) |
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| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh |
| Website | Official website |
Amber Rudd PC MP (born 1 August 1963) is a British Conservative politician. She has served as Home Secretary since 2016 and has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for the East Sussex constituency of Hastings and Rye since the 2010 general election, defeating the incumbent Labour member Michael Foster. Rudd is the third female Home Secretary, and fifth woman to hold one of the Great Offices of State.
She has held several frontbench positions, including serving as Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change from 2015 to 2016. She was appointed Home Secretary in Theresa May's ministry on 13 July 2016.
Amber Rudd was born on 1 August 1963 in London, the daughter of Ethne Fitzgerald and Tony Rudd (b. 1924), a stockbroker. Her brother is the public relations executive Roland Rudd, chairman of Business for New Europe.
She was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College, an independent school in Gloucestershire, and from 1979 to 1981 at Queen's College, London, an independent day school for girls in London, followed by Edinburgh University where she read History.
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