Dominic Rennie Raab, born on 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.
What religion is Dominic Raab?
When his family decided to leave Czechoslovakia in 1938, his father a Jew came to Britain at the age of six. This was because the Munich Agreement had given the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany. Raab was raised in the Church of England, the religion of his English mother.
The son of a Jewish refugee of Czech descent who fled the Nazis in 1938, Mr. Raab was born in 1974. He was raised in Buckinghamshire and graduated from Dr. Challoner’s Grammar School in Amersham.
He then attended Oxford University to study law before transferring to Cambridge to complete his master’s degree.
Before entering politics in 2006 as an assistant to Conservative MP David Davis, who supported Brexit, and later Dominic Grieve, who supported staying in the EU, he worked as a lawyer in the business sector and at the Foreign Office.