Family tragedy, racism and a high-flying City career: How Sajid Javid rose from a Rochdale terraced house to become a contender for the next Prime Minister
During his resignation speech in the House of Commons last week Sajid Javid made much of the obstacles he had overcome in life. "I did not quit when old-school bankers said I did not have the right school ties," he told MPs.
"Sometimes they’d throw stones so you suddenly feel a stone hitting you, and you’d try to work out where it has come from. I was very young, and I was frightened. I didn’t like that, I hated it. I would always stick close to my cousins and my brothers."It was a very different environment then. As a country in terms of race relations, we have come a long way."
"He wasn’t allowed because the union had a rule that all drivers had to be white," he said." There was an informal colour bar. So he kept trying, and eventually he did become a driver." He went to a comprehensive school in Bristol before studying economics and politics at Exeter University, around which time he met his wife Laura. After graduation he set his sights on a career in the City, working in finance.
He was briefly chancellor of the exchequer - resigning after clashing with the Prime Minister's aide Dominic Cummings in a row over his special advisers - before becoming health secretary when Matt Hancock resigned after he breached social distancing guidance by kissing a colleague. Tariq, the manager of a supermarket chain, left two suicide notes to his partner Sylvia - telling her she should 'carry on and enjoy life'. Speaking to the Sunday Times last month Javid told of his family's ongoing struggle to come to terms with their loss.
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