UK may get its first Prime Minister of Asian heritage, as Sajid Javid is rumoured to be Theresa May's successor.
As British politics appears to have hit a shocking dead end over Brexit, some believe that Mrs May has now chosen him to be her successor, probably more by 'accident than design'.
On Saturday the Home Secretary Sajid Javid announced that he is doubling the cash to stop young people turning to crime. He reversed decades of government policy on the medicinal use of cannabis, and even ordered a research into why men convicted of grooming-gang sex crimes were disproportionately of Pakistani origin. He went a step further to support Sarah Champion, the Labour MP for Rotherham, who faced severe backlash from the community and local politicians.
One Remain-supporting Conservative told The Times newspaper: “My view is that Sajid is a canny operator who is able to say some brave things, such as his comments on Sarah Champion, but I have no idea what he actually believes.”
Mr Javid was born in Lancashire in 1969 to a father who was a bus driver of Punjabi origin, arriving in Britain from Pakistan in 1964 with £1 in his pocket, and his mother, a seamstress, opened her own shop. He has four siblings. He grew up in Bristol, attended a comprehensive school, and studied economics and politics at Exeter University, where he met his now wife, Laura. He is a follower of Mrs Thatcher and believed to be 'hard to nail down politically and a man for all seasons'. At different points in the last 8 year, as the MP of Bromsgrove, he has successfully displayed many faces.
However though presumably a successor, he is not really a 'puppet' in the hands of the Prime Minister, that people allege he is. David Laws, the former Lib Dem cabinet minister, reportedly wrote in his book that Mr Javid would challenge Mrs May in such bruising encounters that he felt sorry for her. The Times further said that one senior government figure said: “He is clearly on top of his brief. He reads everything. He works hard and I know the number of times he has properly argued with the PM, and he keeps going back until he wins on issues like Tier 2 immigration and cannabis, where she said ‘no’ and he pushes and pushes. So, good on him.”
