Dominic Rennie Raab born on February 25, 1974, in Buckinghamshire, has been the country’s deputy prime minister, secretary of state for justice, and Lord Chancellor since October 2022. He was. He previously held the positions from September 2021 to October 2022. He is the son of Marks & Spencer’s food manager Peter Raab and clothing buyer Jean Raab.
After graduating from Cambridge and completing the necessary two-year training contract, Raab began his legal career at Linklaters. Raab worked for Linklaters in the UK up until 2000 when he finished law school and left the company.
Since 2010, Raab has served as an MP for Esher and Walton. From 2019 to 2021, he served as the first secretary of state and foreign secretary. He was a member of the Conservative Party. In 2018, he was the Brexit secretary.
During his tenure as a lawyer in the Civil Service under the Labour Government from 1996 to 2006, Raab held a position closely associated with Tony Blair. One of his responsibilities was leading a group at the British Embassy in The Hague tasked with bringing war criminals to justice.
Was Dominic Raab’s father a refugee?
Yes, Peter Raab, Raab’s father, was a Jewish immigrant to Britain at the age of 7 from what was then Czechoslovakia.
