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I have resigned from Cabinet and surrendered the Conservative Whip.
Amber Rudd shared her decision to resign as work and pensions secretary and surrender the Conservative whip.
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Why it mattered
Rudd objected to Boris Johnson’s expulsion of 21 Conservative MPs who had rebelled over Brexit. Her resignation took that dispute into the Cabinet and put further pressure on a government that had lost its Commons majority.