Dominic Rennie Raab (born 25 February 1974) is a British politician who served as the United Kingdom’s Deputy Prime Minister, Secretary of State for Justice, and Lord Chancellor from 2021 to 2023, with a brief stint out of office during Liz Truss’s premiership. Since 2010, he has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Esher and Walton. He was a Conservative Party member who served as Brexit Secretary in 2018 before becoming the First Secretary of State and Foreign Secretary from 2019 to 2021.
Raab was born in Buckinghamshire and went to Dr. Challoner’s Grammar School. He studied law at Lady Margaret Hall in Oxford before transferring to Jesus College in Cambridge to pursue a master’s degree.
Meet Dominic Raab parents Peter Raab and Jean Raab
He is the son of Jean Raab, a clothing buyer, and Peter Raab, a Marks & Spencer food manager. His father, who was Jewish, fled to Britain from Czechoslovakia when he was six years old after the Munich Agreement handed over the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany. Raab was raised in the Church of England, the faith of his English mother. He grew up in the Buckinghamshire village of Gerrards Cross. When Raab’s father died of cancer, he was 12 years old.
Raab went to Dr. Challoner’s Grammar School in Amersham and worked as a volunteer on Kibbutz Sarid before studying law at Lady Margaret Hall in Oxford, where he shared a room with future Channel 4 News presenter Cathy Newman.
Raab spent his time at Oxford “doing a lot of karate”, captained the university karate team, and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Jurisprudence. He subsequently went on to study at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he received the Clive Parry Prize for International Law and a Master of Laws degree.
