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Amber Rudd Net Worth

Net Worth$5 million
Date of Birth1 August 1963
ProfessionPolitician
NationalityBritish
Last Updated2020
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Amber Rudd Net Worth, How did the British politician accumulate her wealth? Check this article to find out more about Amber Rudd Net Worth and her career.

Amber Rudd Net Worth

Amber Rudd Early Life

She is a British politician who served as Home Secretary from 2016 to 2018 and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2018 to 2019. Amber Rudd studied History at the University of Edinburgh School of History, Classics and Archaeology. 

Amber is a direct descendant of King Charles II and his mistress Barbara Palmer, and a tenth cousin once removed from the Queen. 

She attended Cheltenham Ladies’ College, an independent school in Gloucestershire, and from 1979 to 1981 at Queen’s College, London, an independent day school for girls in London, followed by Edinburgh University where she read History. 

After graduating from university, Amber joined J.P. Morgan & Co. as she worked in both London and New York.

Amber got married to the writer and critic A. A. Gill in 1990 and they had two children, including the journalist Flora Gill. They separated in 1995, after Gill entered into a long-term relationship with journalist Nicola Formby. 

Gill and Amber later divorced. Amber was formerly in a relationship with fellow Conservative MP Kwasi Kwarteng.

Amber Rudd Career

Amber Augusta Rudd was born in Marylebone, London, England on 1 August 1963. She was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Hastings and Rye in 2010, representing the Conservative Party, and stood down from parliament in 2019.

She became a director of the investment company Lawnstone Limited at the age of 24 in January 1988, taking over from her sister and brother-in-law. The Lawnstone company became involved with Zinc Corporation, which was taken over by Monticello in 1999, before going into liquidation in 2001.

Amber was a co-director of Monticello from 1999 to 2000, but the company was liquidated in 2003. From 1998 to 2000, she was also a director of two companies based in the Bahamas, Advanced Asset Allocation Fund and Advanced Asset Allocation Management.

She helped to find extras for the film Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), for which she was credited as the “aristocracy coordinator”, and appeared briefly in one of the church scenes in the film.

She sees herself as a one-nation conservative, and has been associated with both socially liberal and socially conservative policies, having pursued a number of tough policies regarding immigration.

Amber worked as an investment banker before being elected to the House of Commons for Hastings and Rye in East Sussex in 2010, defeating incumbent Labour MP Michael Foster. She served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change from 2015 to 2016 in the Cameron Government, where she worked on renewable energy resources and climate change mitigation. She formerly served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Energy and Climate Change from 2014 to 2015.

On 13th July 2016, she was appointed Home Secretary in the May government and given the additional role of Minister for Women and Equalities in January 2018. Amber became the third female Home Secretary, the fifth woman to hold one of the Great Offices of State and the fastest-rising politician to a Great Office of State since the Second World War.

In April 2018, she resigned as Home Secretary in connection with the Windrush deportation scandal.

On 16 November 2018, Amber was appointed Work and Pensions Secretary by Prime Minister Theresa May, succeeding Esther McVey. She was also re-appointed by Boris Johnson on 24 July 2019 and succeeded Penny Mordaunt in her previous portfolio as Minister for Women and Equalities. 

She resigned from his cabinet on September 7 and resigned the Conservative whip in Parliament, to protest Johnson’s policy on Brexit and his decision to expel 21 Tory MP. Amber announced on 30 October that she would be standing down as an MP at the next general election.

Amber Rudd Net Worth

As of today, Amber Rudd Net Worth is estimated at $5 Million. Amber Rudd Net Worth is earned from her career as a politician.

Summary: 

Amber Augusta Rudd is a British politician who served as Home Secretary from 2016 to 2018 and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2018 to 2019. She sees herself as a one-nation conservative.

As of 2020, Amber Rudd’s net worth is estimated at $5 Million.

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