Dominic Raab

Dominic Raab
Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom From:25 October 2022 – present
Prime Minister	Rishi Sunak
Predecessor	Thérèse Coffey
Successor	Incumbent (no successor)
Former  Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom From:15 September 2021 – present
Prime Minister	Boris Johnson
Predecessor	Nick Clegg (office vacant for 6 years)
Successor	Incumbent (no successor)
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Party	Conservative
Religion	Church of England

Dominic Rennie Raab (b. 1974) is a British Member of Parliament. He currently serves as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor, all three of which he has held since October 2022, having previously held these offices between 2021 and September 2022. He has also served as the Brexit Secretary, First Secretary of State and Foreign Secretary. He is a member of the Conservatives, and has represented the constituency of Walton-on-Thames since 8 May 2010.

Early life

Dominic Reenie Raab was born on 25 February 1974 in Buckinghamshire, England. His father, Peter Raab, a food manager for Marks & Spencer, was a Czechoslovakian-Jewish immigrant who fled to Britain in 1938 to avoid Nazi persecution. His mother, Jean Rennie, was a clothes buyer for M&S of partial Scottish, Cornish and, to a lesser extent, German ancestry.

Career

1990s and 2000s

Dominic Raab began his political career in 2006. His first role in the Conservative Party was working as an aide to UK MP David Davis as well as later to Dominic Grieve.

2010s

In 2010, Raab was elected with 59% of the vote to the House of Commons to represent Esher and Walton, a parliamentary constituency in south east England, as part of the general election that year which resulted in a coalition government between the David Cameron's Conservative Party and Nick Clegg's Liberal Democrats.

Raab was re-elected on 7 May 2015 with 63% of the constituency vote, over 50 points ahead of his nearest rival Francis Eldergill of Labour, who recieved 12.7% of the vote.

In 2017, Dominic Raab was re-elected by a reduced margin from 2015 with 58.6% of the vote.

Despite the nationwide landslide for Boris Johnson's Conservative Party in 2019, Dominic Raab again saw his share of the vote in Walton and Esher reduced. He won the seat by 49.4% of the overall vote, just over 4 points behind his nearest rival, Monica Harding of the Liberal Democrats.

2020s

During the early months of the Chinese Communist Party pandemic, Prime Minister Boris Johnson tested positive for COVID-19. The government confirmed that Raab would deputise for Johnson if the PM became incapacitated from the virus. Raab was asked to deputise on 6 April 2020 after Johnson went to intensive care.

Personal life

Dominic Raab is married to Erika Rey, a Brazilian marketing executive, with whom he lives in Surrey and has two children.