Theresa May hates change, while governing in an age of upheaval. It is an unfortunate combination: inflexible temperament meets volatile circumstance. The result is periods of tense stasis punctuated by spasmodic crises. This is a chronic condition afflicting the government and Amber Rudd’s resignation on Sunday is the latest symptom. That doesn’t exonerate the former home secretary of blame for her political ruin.
She misled parliament over targets for deporting illegal immigrants. She then pleaded ignorance, but in terms that proved to be less than candid. But at the root of Rudd’s problem was the impossibility of doing her boss’s old job differently to the way her boss had done it. She was one of the few ministers from David Cameron’s cabinet to survive May’s 2016 purge of the pre-referendum Tory ancien regime. The condition of her elevation was that she leave her liberal, remain-voting impulses at the door.
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