![]() ![]() Zahawi was a candidate to succeed Johnson in the Conservative Party leadership election, but was eliminated from the ballot after the first round of voting, and subsequently supported Truss's bid to become Conservative leader. Less than 48 hours later, Zahawi withdrew his support for Johnson and publicly called on him to resign, which Johnson did shortly afterwards. On 5 July 2022, he became the Chancellor of the Exchequer after the resignation of Rishi Sunak. In the 2021 cabinet reshuffle he was promoted to Johnson's cabinet as Secretary of State for Education. Following Boris Johnson's appointment as prime minister, he was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business and Industry, and in 2020 he was given additional responsibility for the COVID-19 vaccination programme as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for COVID-19 Vaccine Deployment. Zahawi joined Theresa May's government as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families in the 2018 reshuffle. After the retirement of previous Conservative MP John Maples, he was elected for Stratford-on-Avon at the 2010 general election. A chemical engineer in his earlier career, he was chief strategy officer for Gulf Keystone Petroleum until January 2018. A member of the Conservative Party, he became Member of Parliament (MP) for Stratford-on-Avon in 2010.īorn in Baghdad to a Kurdish family, Zahawi was co-founder of international Internet-based market research firm YouGov of which he was chief executive until February 2010. He last served as Chairman of the Conservative Party and Minister without Portfolio from 25 October 2022, until he was dismissed by Sunak on 29 January 2023. Nadhim Zahawi ( Arabic: ناظم الزهاوي, romanized: Nāẓim az-Zahāwī Kurdish: نەدیم زەهاوی, romanized: Nedîm Zehawî born 2 June 1967) is a British politician who served in various ministerial positions under prime ministers Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, and Rishi Sunak from 2018 to 2023. ![]()
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