High-flying lawyer who became tipped for PM
MARRIED father-of-two Raab was a high-flying lawyer before becoming MP for Esher and Walton in 2010.
The Brexiteer and right-wing thinker held two posts in the Ministry of Justice from 2015 to 2018, initially working on human rights before being made Minister of State, assisting on court services and reform, as well as supporting the Secretary of State for Justice on EU Exit and international business.
The 44-year-old has since been identified as a future Tory leader and Prime Minister.
He caused controversy in 2011 when he claimed that: “Feminists are now amongst the most obnoxious bigots.”
Theresa May promoted him to Minister of State for Housing this year, where he has a sensitive role dealing with swathes of London property owned by Russian oligarchs.
In the wake of the Salisbury nerve agent attack, Mr Raab, who studied law at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, said that Moscow’s unsatisfactory response “opens up the whole panoply of countermeasures from economic, financial, diplomatic measures.”
The Tory MP votes with his party on most issues but has strayed at times. He voted for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords and a wholly elected House of Lords, while most Tory MPs voted against.
But he has never rebelled against his party in the current parliament.