Sajid Javid

Sajid Javid is a British former banker and Conservative politician, born in Rochdale, Lancashire, on 5 December 1969, who was MP for Bromsgrove from 2010 to 2024 and held three of the most senior posts in British government. ^{1 2}

Javid was born in Rochdale to Pakistani immigrants; his family were Punjabi Muslim farmers from Rajana in Toba Tek Singh District who settled in Bristol, where his father drove a bus and the family lived above a shop on Stapleton Road. ^{1 3} He studied at the University of Exeter, married Laura King in 1997, and has four children. ¹ His own recorded words on religion point in two directions at once: at a hustings in 2010 he said "I do not practise any religion", while at the Commons Big Iftar in 2018 he claimed to be "the first Muslim Home Secretary to be invited" and said "My relationship with God is my business as is yours." ⁴ The English article sums his position up as no longer practising any religion while still describing himself as a Muslim. ¹

Javid worked in banking in New York and Singapore and became a managing director at Deutsche Bank before entering politics. ¹ Elected for Bromsgrove in 2010, he rose through the Treasury to become Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (2014), Business (2015) and Communities (2016). ¹ In April 2018 he became Home Secretary, the first Muslim to hold one of the Great Offices of State, and after standing for the party leadership in 2019 he served as Chancellor of the Exchequer until February 2020 and as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from June 2021 to July 2022. ¹ He stood down from Parliament at the 2024 election. ¹

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