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Dominic Raab was born on 25 February 1974 in Buckinghamshire. He is the son of Jean, a clothes buyer, and Peter, a food manager for Marks & Spencer. His father, who was Jewish, was born in Czechoslovakia and fled the Nazis with his family in 1938 at age six.
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- Raab basics. UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor. Date of birth: 25 February 1974 (age 49) Job: Justice secretary, deputy prime minister, lord chancellor, Conservative MP for Esher and Walton.
- Leadership bid. In 2017, Mr Raab was branded "offensive" by then-Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron after saying "the typical user of a food bank is not someone that's languishing in poverty; it's someone who has a cash flow problem".
- 'Get Brexit done' In a crowded field, he failed to get the 33 MPs' votes he needed to progress to the third round. Fellow Brexiteers Boris Johnson and Michael Gove outlasted him.
- 'Take the knee' Colleagues, including Mr Johnson's arch-critic and former aide Dominic Cummings, have praised Mr Raab's performance under extreme pressure.
Jul 10, 2018 · His Czech-born Jewish father came to Britain in 1938 as a refugee, aged six. He died of cancer when Raab was 12. His mother brought him up in the Church of England. Raab read law at the...
Jul 9, 2018 · The son of a Czech-born Jewish refugee who fled the Nazis in 1938, Mr Raab was brought up in Buckinghamshire and took a law degree at Oxford University before switching to Cambridge for his...
Jul 25, 2019 · Dominic Raab, karate kid with a Jewish father, named UK foreign secretary. Britain’s new top diplomat reportedly spent summer of 1998 at a university near Ramallah and worked with former...
Apr 7, 2020 · Raab, 46, does not identify himself as Jewish. Though multiple media outlets in the United Kingdom have noted that his father was Jewish, Raab rarely acknowledges this part of his...
Apr 7, 2020 · Dominic Raab, Son of a Jewish Refugee, is Britain’s Acting Prime Minister. With COVID-19 sending Boris Johnson to the hospital, the country is being run by a man with Jewish roots. Cnaan...
