Dominic Raab

The Right Honourable Dominic Raab MP
Official portrait, 2020
Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
In office 25 October 2022 – 21 April 2023
Prime Minister	Rishi Sunak
Preceded by	Thérèse Coffey
Succeeded by	Oliver Dowden
In office 15 September 2021 – 6 September 2022
Prime Minister	Boris Johnson
Preceded by	Nick Clegg[a]
Succeeded by	Thérèse Coffey
First Secretary of State
In office 24 July 2019 – 15 September 2021
Prime Minister	Boris Johnson
Preceded by	Damian Green[b]
Succeeded by	Vacant
Cabinet offices 2018–2023 Secretary of State for Justice Lord Chancellor In office 25 October 2022 – 21 April 2023 Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Preceded by Brandon Lewis Succeeded by Alex Chalk In office 15 September 2021 – 6 September 2022 Prime Minister Boris Johnson Preceded by Robert Buckland Succeeded by Brandon Lewis Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs[c] In office 24 July 2019 – 15 September 2021 Prime Minister Boris Johnson Preceded by Jeremy Hunt Succeeded by Liz Truss Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union In office 9 July 2018 – 15 November 2018 Prime Minister Theresa May Preceded by David Davis Succeeded by Steve Barclay
Junior ministerial offices 2015–2018 Minister of State for Housing and Planning In office 9 January 2018 – 9 July 2018 Prime Minister Theresa May Preceded by Alok Sharma Succeeded by Kit Malthouse Minister of State for Courts and Justice In office 12 June 2017 – 9 January 2018 Prime Minister Theresa May Preceded by Oliver Heald Succeeded by Rory Stewart Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Civil Liberties and Human Rights In office 12 May 2015 – 16 July 2016 Prime Minister David Cameron Preceded by Simon Hughes Succeeded by Phillip Lee
Member of Parliament for Esher and Walton
Incumbent
Assumed office 6 May 2010
Preceded by	Ian Taylor
Majority	2,743 (4.4%)
Personal details
Born	Dominic Rennie Raab (1974-02-25) 25 February 1974 (age 50) Buckinghamshire, England
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	Erika Rey
Children	2
Education	Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (BA) Jesus College, Cambridge (LLM)
Occupation	Politician solicitor civil servant
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Website	www.dominicraab.com

Dominic Rennie Raab (/rɑːb/; born 25 February 1974) is a British Conservative Party politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Esher and Walton since 2010. From 2019 to 2023, with a brief period out of office during the Truss premiership, Raab was deputy to prime ministers Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak – as First Secretary of State until 2021 then as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom until 2023. Additionally he has served in the cabinet positions of Brexit Secretary, Foreign Secretary, Justice Secretary and Lord Chancellor.

Born in Buckinghamshire, Raab attended Dr Challoner's Grammar School. He studied law at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford and went on to study for a master's degree at Jesus College, Cambridge. He began his career as a solicitor at Linklaters, before working at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and as a political aide. He was elected for Esher and Walton at the 2010 general election. As a backbencher, Raab co-wrote a number of papers and books, including After the Coalition (2011) and Britannia Unchained (2012). He served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice in the second government of David Cameron from 2015 to 2016. Following Theresa May's appointment as Prime Minister, Raab returned to the backbenches but was appointed to the second May government as Minister of State for Courts and Justice following the 2017 general election. In the 2018 cabinet reshuffle, he was moved to the post of Minister of State for Housing and Planning.

In 2018, Raab was promoted to Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union following the resignation of David Davis. Two weeks later, May announced that she would take control of negotiations with the European Union, with Raab deputising for her and taking charge of domestic preparations for Brexit. Four months later, Raab resigned as Brexit Secretary in opposition to May's draft Brexit withdrawal agreement.

Following May's resignation in 2019, Raab ran to succeed her in the 2019 Conservative Party leadership election; he was eliminated in the second ballot of Conservative MPs. Following Boris Johnson's appointment as Prime Minister, Raab was appointed First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. In 2020, when the Department for International Development was merged with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Raab's post was retitled Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs. In the 2021 cabinet reshuffle, he was moved to the posts of Deputy Prime Minister, Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor. Following a stint on the backbenches during the premiership of Liz Truss, he was re-appointed to the posts in Rishi Sunak's ministry. He resigned from Sunak's government in April 2023 after an investigation upheld some complaints that he had bullied civil servants. Raab was critical of the investigation's findings and said that the threshold for bullying had been set too low. A month after his resignation he announced that he would be standing down as an MP at the next general election.

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