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The Right Honourable
Sajid Javid
MP
Sajid Javid MP
Secretary of State for Culture, Media, Sport and Equalities
Incumbent
Assumed office
9 April 2014
Prime MinisterDavid Cameron
Preceded byMaria Miller
Financial Secretary to the Treasury
In office
7 October 2013 – 9 April 2014
Prime MinisterDavid Cameron
Preceded byGreg Clark
Succeeded byNicky Morgan
Economic Secretary to the Treasury
In office
4 September 2012 – 7 October 2013
Prime MinisterDavid Cameron
Preceded byChloe Smith
Succeeded byNicky Morgan
Member of Parliament
for Bromsgrove
Incumbent
Assumed office
6 May 2010
Preceded byJulie Kirkbride
Majority11,308 (21.9%)
Personal details
Born (1969-12-05) 5 December 1969 (age 54)[1]
Rochdale, Lancashire, England
Political partyConservative
SpouseLaura Javid
Children4
Alma materUniversity of Exeter
OccupationBanker
Websitewww.sajidjavid.com

Sajid Javid (born 5 December 1969) is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bromsgrove since 2010 and the Secretary of State for Culture, Media, Sport and Equalities since 2014.[2] He was previously served the Economic Secretary to the Treasury from 2012 to 2013 and the Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 2013 to 2014.[3]

Sajid Javid is predicted by some sources, including the political commentator Iain Dale, as becoming a future leader of the Conservative Party.[4][5]

Early life

Javid was born in Rochdale, Lancashire, as one of five sons to a bus driver of British-Pakistani descent. His family then moved to Stapleton Road, Bristol, dubbed "Britain's most dangerous street" because of the drug-related shootings and crime.[6]

Javid was educated at Downend School, a state comprehensive school in Bristol, Avon from 1981 to 1986, followed by South Gloucestershire and Stroud College, also in Bristol, from 1986 to 1988, and then at the University of Exeter, Devon, from 1988 to 1991, where he studied economics and politics, and became a member of the Conservative Party.[7][8] At age 20, Javid attended his first Conservative Party Conference and campaigned against the Thatcher government's decision in that year to join the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM), calling it a "fatal mistake".[9]

Javid joined Chase Manhattan Bank in New York immediately out of university, working mostly in South America. Aged 25, he became the youngest Vice-President in the history of the bank.[10] He relocated to London in 1997, and later joined Deutsche Bank as a Director in 2000. In 2004 he became a managing director at Deutsche Bank and, one year later, Global Head of Emerging Markets Structuring.[11] In 2007 he relocated to Singapore as head of Deutsche Bank's credit trading, equity convertibles, commodities and private equity businesses in Asia,[12] and was appointed a board member of Deutsche Bank International Limited. He left Deutsche Bank in 2009 to pursue a career in politics. His earnings at Deutsche Bank would have been roughly £3m a year at the time he left.[13]

Javid is a Trustee of the London Early Years Foundation, was a Governor of Normand Croft Community School, and has led an expedition to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in aid of Help The Aged.[14]

Political career

Election in 2010

On 28 May 2009, the MP for Bromsgrove, Julie Kirkbride, announced that she would be standing down as an MP at the next General Election in the light of the expenses scandal. Kirkbride had represented Bromsgrove since 1997. Her resignation was confirmed in December 2009, after an attempt to withdraw it.[15] The Bromsgrove constituency is a safe Conservative seat and has been Conservative since its creation in 1983.

After a selection contest held by the Bromsgrove Conservative Association on 6 February 2010, in which he received over 70% of the votes cast by its members, Javid was announced as the Conservative candidate in the 2010 general election. In the election held on 6 May 2010, Javid received 22,558 votes (43.7%) with a majority of 11,308.[16] In terms of number of votes, this was an increase on the previous majority of 10,080 at the 2005 general election.[17] Along with Rehman Chishti, also first elected in 2010, Javid is the first British Pakistani Conservative MP.[18] According to Jack Straw, those in the 2010 intake "are the best new MPs for over thirty years": he also identified Javid as one of six Conservative MPs "who have already made an impact in this first term".[19] Javid was one of six new MPs focused on by the Financial Times.[20] In December 2010, Tim Montgomerie, the editor of ConservativeHome (the UK's most influential conservative website), named Sajid as his newcomer of 2010.[21] (Montgomerie and Javid were contemporaries at university.)

Parliamentary and government posts

Javid was a member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee from June – November 2010. He had to relinquish this position when he was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to John Hayes, then Minister of State for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.[22] Javid was one of the first new MPs to be appointed to this position by the Prime Minister, David Cameron.

Javid (right) at Conservative Party conference, 2011

On 14 October 2011, Javid was promoted to Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, replacing Greg Hands in a reshuffle prompted by the resignation of Liam Fox as Defence Secretary.[23][24][25]

On 4 September 2012, Javid was promoted to Economic Secretary to the Treasury, and on 7 October 2013 to Financial Secretary to the Treasury.[26]

On 1 March 2014, Javid accused Ed Miliband on Twitter of a “direct link” between the Labour leader’s refusal to support military intervention in Syria and Russian activity in Ukraine.[27]

On 9 April 2014, prime minister David Cameron promoted Javid to the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Culture, Media, Sport and Equalities, after the resignation of Maria Miller.

In an analysis of the 2010 parliamentary intake by Westminster consultancy firm Guide Public Affairs, Guide to the Next Prime Minister,[28] published in August 2011, Javid ranked third, and was the top-scoring Conservative.[29] In October 2012, Iain Dale in The Daily Telegraph newspaper included Javid in its list of "Top 100 most influential figures from the Right".[10] Dale wrote: "His fast rise up the greasy pole into George Osborne's inner circle is not only proof of this man's ambition but also his talent." Nicholas Watt in The Guardian has also suggested that Javid could rise to the very top.[30]

He has written op-ed pieces for The Wall Street Journal Europe,[31][32] The Daily Telegraph[33] and The Times.[34][35]

Private life

Javid on faith: "My own family's heritage is Muslim. Myself and my four brothers were brought up to believe in God, but I do not practise any religion. My wife is a practising Christian and the only religion practised in my house is Christianity. I think we should recognise that Christianity is the religion of our country."[36]

Javid on multiculturalism: "I welcome the Prime Minister's speech on this complex and important topic. I am proud of my Pakistani and Muslim heritage but, as I have myself said repeatedly, people who settle here should respect the British way of life, culture and traditions, and be required to learn our language. For too long we have championed an ideology of multiculturalism which has created divides rather than broken them down."[37]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Sajid Javid MP". BBC Democracy Live. BBC. Retrieved 25 July 2010.
  2. ^ https://twitter.com/David_Cameron/status/453832237126266880
  3. ^ Owen, Paul (7 October 2013). "Coalition government reshuffle". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 October 2013.
  4. ^ http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/jan/31/tory-party-rising-stars-fading
  5. ^ http://www.ethosjournal.com/topics/politics/item/492-profile-sajid-javid
  6. ^ http://www.people.co.uk/archive/other/2005/10/16/people-investigation-junkie-st-93463-16254597/
  7. ^ Sajid Javid Biography
  8. ^ Profile of Sajid Javid
  9. ^ http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/treasury-minister-sajid-javid-dont-slam-the-city-it-represents-some-of-the-best-of-capitalism-8134667.html
  10. ^ a b Iain Dale "Iain Dale's Top 100 most influential figures from the Right 2012", Daily Telegraph, 7 October 2012
  11. ^ http://www.db.com/medien/en/content/press_releases_2005_2697.htm
  12. ^ http://www.db.com/medien/en/content/press_releases_2006_3217.htm
  13. ^ Donaldson, Kitty; Hutton, Robert (9 April 2014). "U.K. Treasury's Javid Moves to Culture After Miller Quits". bloomberg.com. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
  14. ^ http://www.sajidjavid.com/text.aspx?id=60
  15. ^ Jagger, Suzy (19 December 2009). "Julie Kirkbride to stand down at election after expenses scandal". London: The Times. Retrieved 8 May 2010.
  16. ^ "Tory wins health candidate Dr Taylor's Wyre Forest seat". BBC. 7 May 2010. Retrieved 8 May 2010.
  17. ^ "BBC NEWS – Election 2005 – Bromsgrove". BBC News.
  18. ^ "Muslim MPs double". The Muslim News. 7 May 2010. Retrieved 8 May 2010.
  19. ^ http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/article2665792.ece
  20. ^ http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/93221fb6-a638-11df-8767-00144feabdc0.html#axzz17QBm74qW
  21. ^ http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2010/12/newcomer-of-2010.html
  22. ^ "Bromsgrove MP appointed to new role in Parliament". Bromsgrove Advertiser. 25 November 2010. {{cite news}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  23. ^ http://www.bromsgrovestandard.co.uk/2011/10/14/story-Javid-handed-promotion-in-PM%27s-reshuffle-20296.html
  24. ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/8829338/How-will-the-Right-cope-without-Liam-Fox.html
  25. ^ http://www.obv.org.uk/node/5327
  26. ^ The Independent
  27. ^ telegraph.co.uk: "Ukraine tells Putin: this could be war " 1 Mar 2014
  28. ^ http://www.guidepublicaffairs.co.uk/files/Guide%20To%20The%20Next%20PM%20Aug11.pdf
  29. ^ http://www.bromsgrovestandard.co.uk/2011/08/25/story-Town-MP-tipped-to-be-future-PM-15721.html
  30. ^ Nicholas Watt "Tory party: the rising stars and those fading fast", theguardian.com, 31 January 2013
  31. ^ Javid, Sajid (6 September 2011). "The Worst-Case Euro Scenario". The Wall Street Journal.
  32. ^ Javid, Sajid (6 July 2011). "Britain Needs a Debt Ceiling Too". The Wall Street Journal.
  33. ^ Javid, Sajid (2 August 2011). "Westminster needs a debt ceiling, too". The Daily Telegraph. London.
  34. ^ http://www.sajidjavid.com/upload/thetimes9sept11.pdf
  35. ^ http://www.sajidjavid.com/upload/Times30Sept2011.pdf
  36. ^ http://villageonline.co.uk/village/news/fullstory/politics_in_the_pulpit
  37. ^ http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5102
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