AMBER RUDD was ridiculed today after she criticised “rude” Oxford students for no-platforming her 30 minutes before she was due to give a speech. 

The former home secretary had been invited to speak at an International Women’s Day event on Thursday evening at the invitation of student society UNWomen Oxford. 

But the society voted to block her appearance at the last minute after students highlighted Ms Rudd’s role in the Windrush scandal. 

Today, the former Tory MP took to Twitter to express her displeasure at what she called a “rude and badly judged” decision, calling on students to  “stop hiding” and “start engaging.”

However, her comments were ridiculed by campaigners, who said that it was hypocritical for Ms Rudd to complain about being refused entry to the event. 

Political activist and journalist Ash Sarkar posted on Twitter: “After presiding over the wrongful deportations of mums, dads, grandparents and loved ones, you don’t get to complain about not being allowed somewhere you feel you have a right to be.”

Campaign group Windrush Movement UK accused Ms Rudd of having “no shame.” 

She was forced to resign as home secretary in 2018 after it emerged that she had misled Parliament over the existence of Home Office targets for the deportation of undocumented migrants. 

Ahead of Thursday’s event, a number of students had written to the student society complaining about its invitation to Ms Rudd. 

One student had accused her of “exacerbating racial and class tensions” during her time at the Home Office.

Some politicians leapt to Ms Rudd’s defence, including former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson, who claimed: “If you’re trying to silence Amber Rudd, you really are being anti-democratic.”

Oxford University said that it “strongly disapproves” of UNWomen Oxford’s actions and said that it would be “making the university’s position and feelings very clear to the event organisers and taking necessary steps to ensure that this cannot be repeated.”