WATCHLondon – Britain's interior minister resigned on Sunday amid a scandal over authorities' mistreatment of long-term UK residents wrongly caught up in a government drive to reduce illegal immigration. Prime Minister Theresa May's office said late on Sunday that May had accepted the resignation of Home Secretary Amber Rudd. The policy was introduced at a time when May, now the prime minister, was home secretary. Divisive issueRudd said she didn't see the memo, but The Guardian later published a leaked letter she wrote to the prime minister discussing an aim of increasing removals by 10%. In a resignation letter to the prime minister, Rudd said she had "inadvertently" misled lawmakers.

Source: News 24 April 30, 2018 08:26 UTC