<p class="title">Britain's interior minister Amber Rudd resigned on Sunday, saying she had mistakenly misled parliament over whether her department had targets for deporting illegal immigrants.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rudd had faced calls to stand down after she said the government didn't have targets for deporting people — only for new evidence to emerge contradicting her claims.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I feel it is necessary to do so because I inadvertently misled the Home Affairs Select Committee over targets for removal of illegal immigrants," Rudd said in a letter to Prime Minister Theresa May. "I should have been aware of this, and I take full responsibility for the fact that I was not." </p>
<p class="title">Britain's interior minister Amber Rudd resigned on Sunday, saying she had mistakenly misled parliament over whether her department had targets for deporting illegal immigrants.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rudd had faced calls to stand down after she said the government didn't have targets for deporting people — only for new evidence to emerge contradicting her claims.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I feel it is necessary to do so because I inadvertently misled the Home Affairs Select Committee over targets for removal of illegal immigrants," Rudd said in a letter to Prime Minister Theresa May. "I should have been aware of this, and I take full responsibility for the fact that I was not." </p>