“We should be able to have a conversation about immigration; we should be able to have a conversation about what skills we want to have in the U.K. and whether we need to go out of the U.K. in order to get them to boost our economy, and I don't think we should have a situation where we can't talk about it.”

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.