Rudd quits

Home Sec resigns

AMBER Rudd sensationally quit as Home Secretary last night-after misleading Parliament over targets for booting out illegal immigrants.

Theresa May accepted her resignation following two weeks of revelations over how the top Tory had lost control of the Home Office.

Beleaguered Ms Rudd, 53, hoped to battle through the chaos and grovel for her job with a Commons statement this afternoon.

But she finally bowed to the inevitable, with her resignation announced just after 10pm.

It came hours after a newspaper published in full her four-page letter to Mrs May from January 2017 boasting of setting an “ambitious but deliverable” target for kicking out illegal immigrants.

Yet Ms Rudd flatly denied removals targets existed when she appeared before MPs last week.

Her former deputy, Immigration Minister Brandon Lewis, yesterday- admitted he had seen a bombshell memo over targets for deporting illegal immigrants – targets she denied existed despite being copied in on the document.

Lib Dem MP Layla Moran, of the Best for Britain campaign, said: “This Government have no plan and no clue and the resignation of the Home Secretary highlights the total chaos they are in.”

Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott said: “The Tories’ shameful attempts to cover up their mess must end... Theresa May has sent minister after minister out to protect her cruel legacy.”

MPs claimed Ms Rudd misled the Commons Home Affairs Committee last week by insisting the Home Office had no targets for removals.

In her letter Ms Rudd said people needed to know “our immigration system has ‘teeth’” and said: “I will be reallocating £10m... with the aim of increasing the number of enforced removals by more than 10%.”

Tory Communities Secretary Sajid Javid, whose parents came from Pakistan in the 1960s, admitted the Windrush scandal had felt “very personal”.

He said: “I thought, that could be my mum, my dad. It could be me.”