British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday appointed Nadhim Zahawi as the brand new chancellor of the exchequer, changing Rishi Sunak who had in advance resigned from the cupboard in protest towards Johnson’s leadership. While the Conservation chief is below mounting stress over a string of missteps, his speedy flow to call Sunak’s successor is visible as an try and re-assert manage over the divided celebration members.
Zahawi’s appointment additionally comes at a time while the British authorities is attempting to address the worst cost-of-residing disaster in a generation.
Who is Nadhim Zahawi?
Born in Baghdad to Kurdish parents, Nadhim Zahawi got here to Britain as a refugee boy after his own circle of relatives fled Saddam Hussein’s regime withinside the 1970s. Zahawi could not communicate English while he arrived withinside the UK, and he has spoken approximately how he become bullied at school.
As a educated chemical engineer, Zahawi went directly to paintings withinside the oil industry. He have become a self-made millionaire and entered the British parliament in 2010. He sponsored Brexit in 2016.
Zahawi rose to prominence for his position in overseeing Britain’s a hit vaccination roll-out at some point of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic. He has additionally been a staunch defender of Johnson all through the partygate scandal.
He and his spouse very own 5 houses really well worth 17 million pounds – 3 in London, one in Warwickshire and one in Dubai, in step with a Bloomberg report.
Borish Johnson’s destiny
Boris Johnson’s destiny withinside the authorities stays unsure regardless of him surviving a no-self belief movement withinside the Conservative celebration. While contemporary celebration guidelines will hold him secure from every other assignment for a year, Tories were mulling amending that rule to permit them to perform every other vote as quickly as possible.
“I suspect we can have to tug him kicking and screaming from Downing Street,” Reuters quoted an unnamed Conservative lawmaker as saying. “But if we need to do it that manner then we can.”
The dual resignations from Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid can also open the door for a flood of different resignations.