Sajid Javid was appointed Britain’s interior minister Monday after his predecessor resigned late Sunday following her admission that she "inadvertently" mislead parliamentarians over a drive to reduce illegal immigration, APA reported citing USA Today.
Javid, 48, who replaces Amber Rudd, 54, is the first ethnic minority politician to take on the high-profile role responsible for immigration and the police in the United Kingdom.
Javid is the son of a former bus driver from Pakistan.
He has held various cabinet-level positions in Conservative Party governments, most recently as secretary of state for communities and local government.
Rudd had been due to make a statement to Parliament on Monday over a scandal involving the "Windrush generation," which refers to the people — nurses, railway workers, engineers — who came to the U.K. from the Caribbean more than half a century ago to help it rebuild after the devastation of World War II.
The Windrush generation was named for the ship Empire Windrush, which in 1948 brought hundreds of Caribbean immigrants to Britain.
In recent decades, though, many had been refused medical care in Britain or threatened with deportation because they could not produce paperwork proving their right to reside in the country, even though they had an automatic right to do so.
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