Amber Rudd's resignation highlights workplace dishonesty

Yesterday, Home Secretary Amber Rudd resigned after she admitted she "inadvertently misled" MPs over deportation targets. Whilst the fallout might be bigger, it’s the equivalent of ‘misleading’ your colleagues.

Last week the Home Office said she did not have targets for removing illegal immigrants, but the Guardian published a memo where she set out her "ambitious but deliverable" plan to deport 10% more illegal immigrants over the "next few years”.

Does that count as a lie? Rudd doesn’t think so – in her resignation letter, she wrote that she was sorry that she did not know about "information provided to (her) office which makes mention of targets".

And Matthew Parris, writing in the Times, rushed to the defence of her character. “You won’t find anyone who knows Rudd personally who thinks it possible she told a barefaced lie,” he wrote.