He emigrated to the United Kingdom with his family in 1978, is a co-founder of the online survey firm YouGov and, at 55, has just been appointed Minister of the Treasury
Nadhim Zahawi, 55, opened this Wednesday a new office at 11 Downing Street and it is possible that he will move to the more famous number 10 of the same London street. With the ink still dripping from his new portfolio at the helm of the Treasury, equivalent to Chancellor of the Exchequer and the second most important position in the British Government, he took a momentous step for his political career in an intense day of intrigue and casualties. governmental.
The newly appointed ‘chancellor’ joined a ministerial delegation on Wednesday afternoon that gave the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, the notification that the time is approaching to hand over the reins and vacate Downing Street. The media agreed that Zahawi led the entourage of up to six members of the Cabinet that transmitted his death sentence to the conservative president for lack of integrity in command. Among them were Transport Minister Grant Shapps and Northern Ireland Minister Brandon Lewis.
Zahawi immigrated to the UK at the age of 11. He fled with his family from Iraq in 1978 during the persecution of the Kurdish minority by Saddam Hussein’s regime. He struggled through the English educational system before carving out a prosperous career as a business agent and, among other trades, as an adviser to the novelist Jeffrey Archer. In 2000 he co-founded YouGov, an online polling firm, and ten years later won his Westminster seat for the Stratford-Upon-Avon constituency, birthplace of Shakespeare.
His rise under Johnson has been meteoric. He managed the vaccination program against Covid with efficiency and expertise that enhanced his profile in the conservative party. In the Cabinet reshuffle last September he received the Education portfolio while the current leadership crisis opened the door to Downing Street for him. His trick shines from him now among the possible candidates to succeed Johnson as head of government.
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