Amber’s ‘no-platform’ fury
FORMER Home Secretary Amber Rudd was ‘no-platformed’ by Oxford students in March last year just 30 minutes before she was due to speak.
She was down to appear at an International Women’s Day event to encourage women into politics but a university society cancelled the event because of her role in the Windrush scandal.
Miss Rudd said it was ‘badly judged and rude’ of the students to pull their invitation, adding: ‘They should stop hiding and start engaging.’ After the furore, the charity to which the student society had been affiliated said it would no longer be associated with it. Oxford University also deregistered the society – UN Women Oxford – and demanded an apology from students.
But the society stood its ground, saying having Miss Rudd speak would offend ethnic minority students ‘and other communities affected by her policies’.
Miss Rudd resigned as Home Secretary in 2018 after at least 83 people living legally in the UK were detained and deported.