“Sometimes a politician gets up and talks about British values and what we think that means, and we can be knocked down quite harshly, but I don't think we should be. I think we should be able to talk about British values and about immigration without people saying, 'Oh, you're just being like a crazed other party.'”

British former politician, born 1963

Amber Rudd is a British former politician. Born in 1963, she served as Home Secretary from 2016 to 2018 and as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2018 to 2019. She was the Conservative MP for Hastings and Rye from 2010 until she stepped down in 2019. Rudd describes herself as a one-nation conservative. Her political reputation has often been linked to a mix of socially liberal and economically liberal positions, reflecting the broad centre-right tradition she identified with during her time in parliament.