May under renewed fire

The Windrush fiasco claims the home secretary. The prime minister may be next. Emily Hohler reports.

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Amber Rudd: the fifth resignation from cabinet in six months
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The resignation of Home Secretary Amber Rudd has pitched Prime Minister Theresa May's "ill-starred government into yet another crisis", says The Economist. It's the fifth resignation of a cabinet minister in six months: more than a fifth of May's second cabinet have quit their posts since last June. That is "quite a turnover". Rudd's resignation has given May several "new potential headaches", says the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg.

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.