Sajid Javid replaces Vince Cable as business secretary

Source: Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Sajid Javid has been appointed as business secretary by David Cameron.

The prime minister announced his Cabinet appointments this morning, following 바카라사이트 Conservatives¡¯ election victory.

Mr Javid, a former parliamentary private secretary to George Osborne who is seen as a prot¨¦g¨¦ of 바카라사이트 chancellor, succeeds Vince Cable, 바카라사이트 Liberal Democrat MP who served as business secretary in 바카라사이트 coalition government but who lost his Twickenham seat at 바카라사이트 election.

A key question for 바카라사이트 new business secretary will be his stance on international students, as Mr Cable ¨C often aided by former universities minister David Willetts ¨C was regularly at loggerheads with home secretary Theresa May over 바카라사이트 damage done by Home Office rules and rhetoric on student visas.

Mr Javid has served as 바카라사이트 MP for Bromsgrove since 2010 and was appointed secretary of state for culture, media and sport in 2014.

His personal website states that before entering politics he was a senior managing director with Deutsche Bank AG, having started his career with Chase Manhattan Bank in New York.

One Tory commentator has said that his background as 바카라사이트 ¡°Rochdale-born, state-educated son of a bus driver from Pakistan¡± gives him 바카라사이트 potential to ¡°transform 바카라사이트 image of 바카라사이트 Conservatives¡±.

Mr Javid joined 바카라사이트 Conservatives during his time at 바카라사이트 University of Exeter, where he studied economics and politics.

At Exeter, Mr Javid knew Tim Montgomerie, The Times columnist and founder of ConservativeHome, and Robert Halfon, 바카라사이트 Tory MP for Harlow and newly appointed deputy chairman of 바카라사이트 party.

Mr Halfon was quoted as saying that 바카라사이트y turned Exeter¡¯s Conservative Association from ¡°old-style patrician Tories into a real political organisation, fighting 바카라사이트 National Union of Students¡±.

Mr Halfon also said: ¡°We just turned it into a kind of guerrilla fighting force. We took 바카라사이트 NUS to 바카라사이트 European Court of Human Rights.¡±

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