In Buckinghamshire, England, Dominic Raab was born on February 25, 1974, to an English mother and a Jewish refugee father. Before enrolling in the legal program at Lady Margaret Hall in Oxford, Raab attended Dr. Challoner’s Grammar School in Amersham and spent a short time volunteering in Kibbutz Sarid. He shared a corridor with Cathy Newman, who would later become a Channel 4 News anchor.
His father, Peter Raab, left the Czechoslovak Republic in 1938 as a child refugee and crossed the United Kingdom. Peter Raab founded the law firm Raab and Co. and later achieved prominence as a lawyer. In one well-known case, he defended the family of murdered adolescent Stephen Lawrence. He was a human rights attorney who specialized in this area of the law.
Raab supported the coalition government’s goals in the Commons, including the repeal of the Identity Cards Act of 2006, the expansion of academy schools, and the passage of the Freedom Bill. He criticized the government for deciding to put the European Investigation Order into effect in accordance with the EU directive, claiming that doing so would exhaust operational policing resources, erode safeguards against the exploitation of personal information about British citizens, and jeopardize those citizens’ rights to a fair trial.
Who is Dominic Raab’s mother Jean Raab?
The mother of Dominic Raab, Jean Raab, was an intermittent nurse and a native of England. At the age of 65, Jean Raab passed away in 2018.
