Who is new health secretary Sajid Javid?
Sign up to FREE email alerts from BusinessLive - South West - your daily regional round-up of latest headlines, comment and analysis Invalid Email Something went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice  Former chancellor Sajid Javid has been appointed health secretary following Matt Hancock's resignation at the weekend. Mr Hancock announced his departure from the cabinet after admitting breaking social distancing rules. Mr Javid is a Conservative Party politician who was largely raised in Bristol and has been an MP for Bromsgrove, in Worcestershire, since 2010. He stood for leader of the party in the 2019 election, but finished in fourth place. He was appointed by Boris Johnson as chancellor in the same year. He only lasted in the role six months however, stepping down in February 2020 after claiming the Prime Minister had attached "unreasonable conditions" to his reappointment in the cabinet reshuffle, including sacking his team of aides. The 51-year-old has now been reappointed to the cabinet as health secretary - just 16 months after he left. Mr Javid was born in Rochdale, Lancashire, to a British-Pakistani family but spent his formative years in Bristol. He is one of five sons and grew up in a two-bedroom flat above his parents shop in Stapleton Road in the city. His family migrated to the UK in the 1960s and his father was a bus driver. The MP attended the city's state comprehensive Downend School before moving to Filton Technical College between 1986 to 1988. He then went on to study economics and politics at Exeter University. Before going into politics, Mr Javid spent five years in New York City where he rose to the senior ranks of Chase Manhattan Bank. In 1997, he moved to German multinational investment firm Deutsche Bank, later becoming managing director. Mr Javid switched to politics in 2010, serving as a junior treasury minister under David Cameron's coalition government. In September 2012, Mr Javid joined George Osborne's ministerial team as economic secretary to the Treasury. He was promoted to financial secretary to the Treasury in 2013, replacing Greg Clark. In 2014, he was promoted to the cabinet as culture secretary and in 2015 became business secretary. Sign up for more business news straight to your inbox Stay up to date with our daily newsletter, email breaking news alerts and weekly round-ups. To sign up, find out more and see all of our newsletters, follow the link here    Mr Javid campaigned to remain in Europe in the lead-up to the 2016 Brexit referendum, which saw the UK vote to leave the European Union. Between 2016 and 2018 he served as communities secretary under Theresa May's government, before becoming the first British Asian and first person of colour to hold the office of home secretary following Amber Rudd's resignation over the Windrush scandal. Mr Javid has been a Conservative Party supporter since the early 1980s and reportedly attended his first conference towards the end of the Margaret Thatcher years. He has four children with his wife Laura and they are privately educated. Share your thoughts in the comments below.