<span style="color: #222222;">Britain's Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd today quit the cabinet, saying she cannot stand by while moderate Conservatives are expelled. In her resignation letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, she said she joined the cabinet in good faith accepting that 'No Deal' Brexit had to be on the table. She reasoned it was the means by which they would have the best chance of achieving a new deal to leave on 31 October. Amber Rudd said she no longer believed leaving the European Union with a deal was the government's main objective. She described the sacking of 21 Tory MPs on Tuesday as an assault on decency and democracy.<br />'' <br />'' Her resignation comes after a week of setbacks for the Prime Minister when a cross-party group of MPs seized control of the Parliamentary agenda. Following the rebellion, the Prime Minister removed the whip from 21 Tory MPs – including two former chancellors.<br />''<br />''Ms Rudd, in a tweet, said that she is resigning over Boris Johnson's purge of the party and his failure to pursue a deal with the EU. She described the expulsions as a short-sighted culling of what she called broad-minded and dedicated Conservative MPs.</span><br />