British Prime Minister Theresa May has appointed Pakistani-origin cabinet member Sajid Javid as the new home secretary of the United Kingdom. Javid is the first-ever British Muslim and British Pakistani to get the post, the most important cabinet position after the prime minister's.
Earlier, Britain's interior minister, Amber Rudd, resigned, after the government struggled to contain the fallout over the way it has treated some long-term Caribbean immigrants who have wrongly been labeled illegal immigrants.
Javid, a Member of Parliament for Bromsgrove, was the secretary of state for housing, communities and local government. The announcement was made in a tweet from the PM Office. Earlier, speculation was rife in the British media as to who would replace Rudd.