https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_Raab
Dominic Rennie Raab (born 25 February 1974) is a British politician serving as First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs since July 2019. A member of the Conservative Party, he has also been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Esher and Walton since 2010.
Raab was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice on 12 May 2015. When Prime Minister Theresa May appointed her first government a year later, he returned to the backbenches. Following the 2017 general election, he was appointed Minister of State for Courts and Justice. When the government was reshuffled in January 2018, Raab moved to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
In July 2018, May promoted Raab to his first Cabinet role, becoming the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union following the resignation of David Davis. Raab resigned as Brexit Secretary four months later, in opposition to the Draft Withdrawal Agreement which he had been involved in negotiating with the EU.
After May announced her resignation in May 2019, Raab ran to succeed her in the Conservative Party leadership election. He was eliminated in the second ballot of Conservative MPs and endorsed Boris Johnson, who went on to win. On 24 July 2019, Johnson appointed Raab Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and First Secretary of State, making Raab de facto Deputy Prime Minister to Johnson.
Raab is married to Erika Rey, a Brazilian marketing executive who until 2020 worked for Google. They have two children, and live in Thames Ditton, Surrey.
Raab holds a black belt, third Dan in karate
Raab won Newcomer of the Year for 2011 at The Spectator magazine's Parliamentary Awards.
In 2019, LBC's Iain Dale and a "panel of experts" placed Raab fourth in a list of that year's 'Top 100 Most Influential Conservatives
Dominic Raab, 'karate kid' koji će mijenjati Borisa Johnsona
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Uvjereni euroskeptik, nositelj crnog pojasa u karateu treći dan i amaterski boksač, Raab (46) je naslijedio upravo Johnsona na dužnosti ministra vanjskih poslova.
Downing Street broj 10 priopćio je u ponedjeljak da će Raab sada Johnsona mijenjati na dužnosti premijera ‘kada to bude nužno’.
Dominic Raab je ‘čvrst i oštrouman. Nije osoba koju možete zastrašiti’, kazao je njegov bivši šef, bivši britanski ministar za brexit David Davis. "Lojalan je i discipliniran".
Predstavnik je novog naraštaja konzervativaca koji su ušli u parlament u zadnjih deset godina.
Raab je sin židovskog izbjeglice iz Češke koji je stigao u Britaniju 1938. Otac mu je umro od raka kada mu je bilo samo 12 godina i majka ga je odgojila u anglikanskoj vjeri.
Studirao je pravo na prestižnim sveučilištima Oxfordu i Cambridgeu.
Kao mladi pravnik specijaliziran za međunarodno pravo zaposlio se u odvjetničkoj tvrtki Linklaters, a kasnije se pridružio ministarstvu vanjskih poslova, gdje se bavio pitanjima terorizma na moru.
Godine 2003. imenovan je u diplomatski tim britanskih odvjetnika koji su u Haagu istraživali ratne zločine Slobodana Miloševića, Radovana Karadžića i Charlesa Taylora.
Između 2006. i 2008. bio je šef kabineta Davida Davisa, tada konzervativnog ministra unutarnjih poslova u sjeni.
U britanski parlament prvi je put izabran 2010. Pet godina poslije prvi put ulazi u izvršnu vlast, kad u vladi Jamesa Camerona postaje zamjenik ministra pravosuđa.
Godinu poslije, uoči referenduma o brexitu, već je gorljivi aktivist u kampanji za izlazak iz EU-a.
U vladu se vraća 2017. prvo kao ministar pravosuđa, a zatim i stanovanja. Theresa May imenovala ga je ministrom za brexit nakon ostavke Davida Davisa 2018., ali Raab nije oklijevao napustiti dužnost već tri mjeseca poslije nezadovoljan sporazumom o brexitu koji je May sklopila s Bruxellesom.
Nakon ostavke Therese May natjecao se za predsjednika Konzervativne stranke, ali je ispao u drugom krugu glasanja, odnosno završio na šestom mjestu. Tada je podržao kasnijeg pobjednika, Johnsona, koji mu je uzvratio imenovanjem za ministra vanjskih poslova.
Oženjen je i otac dvojice sinova, Petera i Joshue.