Rudd's departure from DWP is bound to be deeply destabilising

Resignation comes at time department faces myriad problems of policies such as disability benefits and universal credit. Amber Rudd’s departure from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) brings to six the number of secretaries of state it has got through in less than four years: an alarming top job turnover rate in any organisation, but particularly destabilising in what is not only the government’s biggest spending department but one of its most politically sensitive ones. The