Events that cost Amber Rudd her job

April 16: Home Secretary Amber Rudd offers an apology in the House of Commons to members of the Windrush generation after it emerges some immigrants who arrived between the late 1940s and early 1970s are facing deportation and being denied access to healthcare due to UK paperwork issues.

April 17: Officials are forced to defend a decision to destroy thousands of landing card slips recording the arrival of Windrush generation immigrants into the UK.

April 18: The Opposition call on Ms Rudd to consider her position as the crisis deepens.

April 20: A leaked memo suggests Ms Rudd privately pledged to give the Home Office “teeth” in efforts to remove illegal migrants from the UK, while the PM announces compensation payments to those affected.

April 22: The shadow foreign secretary, Emily Thornberry, joins calls for Ms Rudd to quit.

April 23: Ms Rudd attempts to draw a line under the crisis with an emergency package of measures, including a fast-track offer of UK citizenship for people who arrived from the Commonwealth in the decades following the Second World War and a promise of a compensation scheme.

April 24: Pressure continues to mount as fresh cases emerge. Labour MP David Lammy, a prominent figure in exposing the issue, reports that his office has received six further cases before midday.

April 26: The home secretary is facing repeated calls to resign, but claims she never agreed to use removal targets for migrants.

April 27: Ms Rudd clings on claiming she had not seen a leaked internal memo referring to Home Office targets for removing illegal immigrants.

She apologises and admits she should have known about official targets.

April 29: Ms Rudd resigns the night before she was due to explain herself in the Commons after another leaked letter casts new doubt on her knowledge of the deportation targets.

April 30: Sajid Javid is appointed as new home secretary, becoming the first person in the post from an ethnic minority background.

He is replaced as housing, communities and local government secretary by former Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire.

International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt takes on Ms Rudd’s former responsibilities as minister for women and equalities.