This week's Community Column is written by Brendan O'Hara

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Late on Sunday, Amber Rudd became the fourth member of Theresa May’s cabinet to resign from government in the past nine months. The former Home Secretary follows the former defence secretary, the former international development secretary and the former first secretary of state to in pursuing a career on the back benches.

Since cobbling together an unholy, albeit mightily expensive, coalition with the DUP less than a year ago, Theresa May has stumbled from crisis to crisis and has watched as her closest lieutenants have, one by one, fallen by the wayside.

Unlike those earlier resignations, wherein those involved largely brought it upon themselves, the demise of Ms Rudd has the Prime Minister’s fingerprints all over it. And you wouldn’t need to be Colombo to see the evidence trail leads right to the front door of Number 10 Downing Street.

That’s because the disgraceful treatment of the Windrush generation – those people who came to the UK legally from the Caribbean when this country needed them most – started before Amber Rudd took the helm.

It was Theresa May, when Home Secretary, who deliberately created the ‘hostile environment strategy’ for immigrants that ‘hostile environment’ that has resulted in the grotesque spectacle of innocent members of the ‘Windrush generation’ being forcibly repatriated to countries they haven’t seen for almost 50 years.

This wasn’t an error. This was a cold, hard and calculated targeting of a generation of people who helped the UK rebuild a war-shattered country. And instead of showing them gratitude, the UK showed them the door.

We may never know how many innocent UK citizens were wrongly deported back to the country of their birth. We will certainly never be able to fully comprehend the fear and anxiety that these UK citizens would have had to endure, waiting fearfully for the knock on their door that could irrevocably change their lives.

Amber Rudd may, by attempting to protect her boss, have been the architect of her own downfall, but the real villain of the piece here is Theresa May. It is impossible to predict what will happen next given the general state of chaos at the heart of the UK Government but if there is any justice, it should be the Prime Minister who is called to account for this shameful scandal.

And given that her allies are falling like nine-pins at the moment, her day of reckoning might not be too far away. She deserves nothing more.