In another calculated wager for the Tory MP whose willingness to take risks has earned him comparisons to Del Boy from Only Fools & Horses and a candidate seeking to impress Lord Sugar on The Apprentice, Nadhim Zahawi today began his greatest job to yet as Chancellor.
The “wheeler trader” Chancellor replaces Rishi Sunak as a billionaire
The 55-year-old Tory MP’s ascent to No. 11 Downing Street is remarkable considering that he fled Saddam Hussein’s Iraq with his family at the age of nine and arrived as a Kurdish refugee.
He later went on to make a fortune by founding the polling company YouGov and accumulating a £100 million property portfolio.
Although Mr. Zahawi’s “true blood and love was politics,” according to friends, he devoted himself to making a “f**k lot of money” before to being chosen as the Tory MP for Stratford-Upon-Avon in 2010.
He’s a likeable wheeler-dealer type, according to a different friend in parliament, who also added that he has “a little Del Boy about him.”
