Dominic Rennie Raab, born 25 February 1974, is a British politician serving as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Secretary of State for Justice, and Lord Chancellor since 2021. He has been a Member of Parliament (MP) for Esher and Walton since 2010.
Who are Dominic Raab’s mother and father?
On February 25, 1974, Dominic Rennie Raab was born in Buckinghamshire. Dominic is the son of Marks & Spencer food director Peter Raab and clothing buyer Jean.
When he was six years old, his father, a Jew, left Czechoslovakia for Britain after the Munich Agreement gave Nazi Germany sovereignty over the Sudetenland portion of Czechoslovakia.
Raab’s English mother brought him up in the Church of England. He spent his formative years in Buckinghamshire’s Gerrards Cross. When Raab’s father passed away from a cancerous tumor, he was twelve years old.
He spoke about the effects of his father’s background on him in an interview with the Times last year, particularly how his family members who remained in Czechoslovakia perished in the Holocaust.