A tip for the top of Tory party

SAJID Javid is the first Home Secretary from an Asian background as he takes up the post after Amber Rudd’s resignation. The Bromsgrove MP is tipped by some as a potential future leader.

Mr Javid, who backed remaining in the European Union during the referendum campaign, is a father of four and reportedly made more than £20m during his high-flying banking career, which took him round the globe.

The 48-year-old has told how he turned to politics to “give something back”.

His father, Abdul, a bus driver, arrived in Britain in 1961 from Pakistan with just £1 in his pocket and earned the nickname “Mr Night and Day” because he worked all hours.

The family lived in Rochdale before moving to Bristol, where Mr Javid attended Downend School, a comprehensive, before going on to study politics and economics at Exeter University.

A career in investment banking followed, taking him to New York and Singapore as well as London. At the age of 25 he became the youngest vice-president at Chase Manhattan Bank and was later headhunted by Deutsche Bank.

Part of the 2010 parliamentary intake, he was quickly made a member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee.

In 2012 he was appointed economic secretary to the Treasury. Within two years he became Culture Secretary.

In 2015, he was made Business Secretary and Theresa May gave him the job of Communities Secretary when she became Prime Minister the following year.

Although his family heritage is Muslim, Mr Javid does not practise any religion but his wife, Laura, his childhood sweetheart, is a Christian.