Britain’s newly appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer Nadim Xhawi departs from 10 Downing Street in central London on July 5, 2022, following his appointment. (AFP)
The 55-year-old co-founded the leading voting company YouGov and was active in local conservative politics in London before becoming MP in 2010.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson named his Iraq-born education secretary, Nadim Jahvi, as finance minister following Rishi Sunak’s shock resignation late Tuesday.
Downing Street said Queen Elizabeth II had approved Jahavi’s appointment before pursuing a lucrative business career, who had come to Britain as a child with her Kurdish family who did not speak English.
The 55-year-old co-founded the leading voting company YouGov and was active in local conservative politics in London before becoming MP in 2010.
He won widespread praise for overseeing the rollout of Britain’s pandemic vaccines.
But like Sunak, his personal wealth attracted adverse attention, in which he claimed parliamentary expenses to heat his horse stables in 2013.
Zahavi declined to comment to reporters as he left a meeting at 10 Downing Street, including whether he would uphold Sunak’s pleas for fiscal discipline against Johnson’s free-spending tendency.
The prime minister named another loyalist, Michelle Donelan, to replace Jahavi in the Ministry of Education.
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