Tag: Sajid Javid

Sajid Javid

Tory MP for: Bromsgrove (Worcestershire, West Midlands)
First elected: 2010
2017 majority over Labour: 16,573 (30.7%)
Seat at-risk ranking: 213rd (out of 317 Tory seats in 2017)

Work background: Banking – latterly head of Deutsche Bank’s credit trading, equity convertibles, commodities and private equity businesses in Asia, reportedly earning £3m per year.

Government roles:

  • Home Secretary (April 2018-present)
  • Housing, Communities & Local Government Secretary (July 2016-April 2018)
  • Business, Innovation & Skills Secretary (May 2015-July 2016)
  • Culture, Media & Sport Secretary (April 2014-May 2015)
  • Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Sept 2012-Oct 2013)
  • Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Oct 2011-Sept 2012)

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Javid under fire over ‘illegal’ cross-Channel asylum seekers claim

From The Guardian: Lawyers and campaigners have criticised Sajid Javid after the home secretary appeared to suggest asylum seekers should be deterred from crossing the Channel in small boats by making it harder to gain asylum, a right enshrined in international law.

The Refugee Council called the comments “deeply concerning” and said the suggestion of denying asylum was unlawful. The criticism was echoed by the shadow home secretary, Diane Abbott, who called the comments “a disgrace”. […]

Colin Yeo, a leading immigration and asylum barrister at Garden Court chambers, said the home secretary’s apparent threat was illegal. “Sending genuine refugees to face persecution in order to dissuade others from seeking to come here is plainly illegal,” he told the Guardian.

“I imagine the home secretary knows this, but if so it is depressing that he is still saying it as a way of trying to make himself sound tough. The latest asylum statistics show that around three-quarters of Iranian asylum claims succeed, so we are talking here about genuine refugees.”

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PM among cabinet members earning money as landlords

From The Guardian: Nine cabinet ministers, including the prime minister, are making more than £10,000 a year by acting as landlords, a Guardian analysis has found.

Following Jeremy Hunt’s failure to declare the purchase of seven luxury flats that he subsequently rented out, an analysis of the parliamentary register of MPs’ interests shows eight other members of the cabinet own property that is rented out for a five-figure annual sum.

The health secretary was forced in to an embarrassing apology on Friday after it emerged that he had failed to declare a business interest with both Companies House and the parliamentary register of MPs’ interests.

Hunt has amended the register, which now shows that he has a half share of a holiday home in Italy, a half share in an office building in Hammersmith and seven recently acquired apartments in Southampton.

Theresa May and Philip Hammond, who both live in Downing Street, rent out their personal homes in central London. Communities and housing secretary Sajid Javid also rents out property, while Chris Grayling, the transport secretary, rents out two properties, according to the register

The foreign secretary Boris Johnson, the international trade secretary Liam Fox, the minister without portfolio Brandon Lewis – who is also the Conservative party chairman – and the Welsh minister Alun Cairns also own and rent out a property, according to the register.

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