Humble start to a stellar career

SAJID Javid has truly achieved stellar success after a proud but modest start in life.

A self-made multi-millionaire, Javid’s promotion yesterday became his fourth Cabinet post in three years.

His parents came from Pakistan in 1961 and he has told how as a child, pictured, he acted as interpreter for his mother until she learned English.

Just this weekend, Mr Javid, 48, revealed the Windrush scandal, which sank his predecessor Amber Rudd, had made him think: “That could be my mum, my dad, me.” He was born one of five sons in Rochdale, where his father was a cotton mill workerturned-bus driver, who later moved the family to Bristol to run a clothes shop.The future MP attended state school and later became the first in his family to attend university, studying Economics and Politics at Exeter. His glittering early career earned him a reported £20million as a City high-flyer, before leaving in 2009 “to give something back through politics.” He was elected MP for Bromsgrove in Worcestershire in 2010. The then Chancellor George Osborne was a mentor and made him a Treasury minister in 2012.

In 2014 he joined David Cameron’s Cabinet as Culture Secretary and he became Business Secretary in 2015.

During the 2016 EU referendum he disappointed Eurosceptics by campaigning for Remain.

But he has since won plaudits for Tweeting against Donald Trump and for attacking Jeremy Corbyn about anti-Semitism in Labour ranks.

Allies will now want him to maintain his newly displayed passion in this tricky new job.