texts:
"Professor<mask> (July 29, 1914 – February 6, 2017) was an American stand-up comic, film actor and activist, often billed as "The World's Foremost Authority". He introduced his unscripted, improvisational style of stand-up comedy at the San Francisco club the hungry i. Lenny Bruce described <mask> as "one of the most brilliant comedians of all time." Biography
<mask> was born on , in Brooklyn, New York. Poverty-stricken after his father deserted the family, his mother was forced to place him and his five siblings in the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York, where <mask> remained until his early teens. He then rode in boxcars out to California, and enrolled himself at Belmont High School in Los Angeles. During the Great Depression he worked for the Civilian Conservation Corps and, while working his way back East, became a featherweight Golden Gloves boxing champion. <mask> supported Communist/Socialist left-wing politics."He appeared in support of Cuban children, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and the American Communist Party, and was blacklisted in the 1950s, the effects of which he stated lingered throughout his life. (<mask> never returned to Late Night with David Letterman after his first appearance in 1982, which he claimed was a result of the blacklist still being in effect.) During the 1960 election, <mask> campaigned for president on Hugh Hefner's Playboy ticket. During the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries, <mask> endorsed Vermont United States Senator Bernie Sanders for the nomination and presidency. <mask> was a frequent guest on The Tonight Show hosted by Johnny Carson during the late 1960s and early 1970s. When the publicity-shy Thomas Pynchon won the National Book Award Fiction Citation for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974, he asked <mask> to accept it on his behalf. The New York Times described the resulting speech as "… a series of bad jokes and mangled syntax which left some people roaring with laughter and others perplexed."In the Robert A. Heinlein science fiction novel Friday, the eponymous heroine says

At one time there really was a man known as "the World's Greatest Authority." I ran across him in trying to nail down one of the many silly questions that kept coming at me from odd sources. Like this: Set your terminal to "research." Punch parameters in succession "North American culture," "English-speaking," "mid-twentieth century," "comedians," "the World's Greatest Authority." The answer you can expect is "Professor <mask>." You'll find his routines timeless humor. For an October 2011 interview, <mask> invited a New York Times reporter to visit his 1840 carriage house on East 36th Street.<mask> estimated its resale value at $3.5 million. He said that, when not performing, he panhandled for change from motorists exiting the Queens–Midtown Tunnel. Every few months, he told the interviewer, he donated the money to a group that purchased medical supplies for Cuban children. He said of the drivers who supplied the cash, "I don't tell them where the money's going, and I'm sure they don't care." Irvin Arthur, <mask>'s agent for half a century, assured the reporter that <mask> did not need the money for himself. "This is not about money," Arthur said. "For <mask>, this is an extension of his performing."In his memoir, Phoning Home, Jacob M. Appel cites a personal encounter with <mask> on a street in New York City as the basis for his novel, The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up. Career

Comedy
In 1938, <mask> returned to New York, where he got a job writing and performing in Pins and Needles, a musical comedy revue about a union organizer in the "garment district". He claimed that he was fired from this job for his union organizing activities. Five years later, he was working in New Faces of 1943 and appearing at the Village Vanguard, doing his stand-up comedy routine. He was drafted during World War II, but was discharged after six months, after he claimed he convinced an Army psychiatrist that he was a homosexual. From the late 1940s, <mask> cultivated his "Professor" character. Dressed in seedy formal wear and sneakers, with his bushy hair sprouting in all directions, <mask> would amble on stage in a preoccupied manner, then begin his monologue with "However …" He created a new style of double-talk comedy; instead of making up nonsense words like "krelman" and "trilloweg", like double-talker Al Kelly, the Professor would season his speech with many long and florid, but authentic, words.The professor would then launch into observations about anything under the sun, but seldom actually making sense. However … we all know that protocol takes precedence over procedures. This parliamentary point of order based on the state of inertia of developing a centrifugal force issued as a catalyst rather than as a catalytic agent, and hastens a change reaction and remains an indigenous brier to its inception. This is a focal point used as a tangent so the bile is excreted through the pancreas. Changing topics suddenly, <mask> would wander around the stage, pontificating all the while. His quick wit allowed him to hold his own against the most stubborn straight man, heckler or interviewer. One fan of <mask>'s comedy, despite their radically different politics, was Ayn Rand.Theatre critic Kenneth Tynan wrote of the Professor in The New Yorker, "<mask> is a cultural clown, a parody of literacy, a travesty of all that our civilization holds dear, and one of the funniest grotesques in America. He is Chaplin's tramp with a college education". <mask> frequently appeared at the hungry i nightclub in the '50s and '60s, and remained the favorite comedian of club owner Enrico Banducci. <mask> appeared with Banducci, Mort Sahl, Jonathan Winters,  Bill Cosby, Jackie Vernon, and Maya Angelou in a 1981 televised tribute to the hungry i entitled The hungry i Reunion on PBS. In 1975, <mask> gave a typically long-winded, nonsensical performance in New York City for journalists waiting for the Rolling Stones to announce the band's 1975 Tour of the Americas. The press was still listening to <mask> ramble on when they finally noticed that the Stones were playing "Brown Sugar" on a flatbed truck driving down Fifth Avenue. Broadway
In 1951, <mask> appeared as "Abou Ben Atom", the Genie, in the cult flop Broadway musical Flahooley along with Yma Sumac, the Bil and Cora Baird Marionettes and Barbara Cook (in her Broadway debut).<mask>'s performance of "Springtime Cometh" can be heard on the show's original cast album. Film and television
<mask> appeared occasionally in 1950s television as a character actor. He appeared in an episode of The Phil Silvers Show titled "Bilko's Grand Hotel", in which <mask> plays an unkempt Bowery bum being passed off as a hotelier by Sgt. Bilko. The Professor was a frequent guest comic on variety shows and a guest panelist on game shows during the 1960s and 1970s. <mask> became so synonymous with comic erudition that, when a Providence, Rhode Island television station, WJAR-TV, wanted a spokesman to explain changes in network affiliations, <mask> got the job. Lecturing with pointer in hand, <mask> manipulated magnetic signs to demonstrate how television schedules would be disrupted.By the end of the commercial, the visual aids were in shambles and the professor had meandered from his original point. <mask> would do the same promos for WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee in 1977 during the time that rival stations WITI and WISN-TV switched affiliations. <mask> often appeared on The Steve Allen Show (1962–1964), whereupon he would end his rambling stand-up routine with Allen and stage hands literally chasing <mask> with a giant butterfly net. He later guest starred on The Donald O'Connor Show in 1968. <mask> appeared in various Broadway productions, including as a gravedigger in a production of Hamlet. In 2009, filmmaker Jordan Stone began filming what was to become an award-winning documentary film called Irwin & Fran. Political activist and fellow stand-up comedian Dick Gregory shared some in-depth and provocative memories and Academy Award-winning actress Susan Sarandon narrated in a very personal tone.The film won The People's Film Festival Best Film Award in 2013. Personal life and death
<mask> was married for 70 years to Frances Berman <mask>, who died in May 2011. The couple had two children, the late Margaret Davis, née <mask>, an actress, and <mask>, a painter. Their two grandsons are Amadeo <mask> and <mask>. <mask> turned 100 in July 2014. In 2011, the New York Times reported that <mask> was still performing, and also had been soliciting change from drivers near his Manhattan residence as they drove in from the Midtown Tunnel, in exchange for cleaning their windshields with a "squeegee," and donating the money to Cuban children. His agent said that <mask> was not in financial distress, and a neighbor described it as a performance.<mask> died at the age of 102 on February 6, 2017, at his apartment in Manhattan with his son, Richard, at his side. Filmography
How to Commit Marriage (1969) – The Baba Ziba
Fore Play (1975) – Professor <mask>
Car Wash (1976) – The Mad Bomber
Thieves (1977) – Joe Kaminsky (reprising his stage role)
Chatterbox! (1977) – Himself
Fairy Tales (1979) – Dr. Eyes
The Comeback Trail (1982) – Himself
Stuck on You! (1982) – Judge Gabriel
Crackers (1984) – Lazzarelli
That's Adequate (1989) – D.W. Godilla
Jack (1996) – Poppy
I'm Not Rappaport (1996) – Sol
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001) – <mask> & Fran (2013) – Himself

References

External links

 National Book Awards speech
 New York Press: "Who Am the World's Foremost Authority?" "Cinema Retro covers Prof. <mask>'s 95th birthday party at The Players club" (2009)
An Interview with <mask>, September 2013

1914 births
2017 deaths
Male actors from New York City
Jewish American male actors
American male film actors
American stand-up comedians
Military personnel from New York City
United States Army personnel of World War II
Civilian Conservation Corps people
Sportspeople from Brooklyn
United States Army soldiers
American centenarians
American male boxers
Comedians from New York City
Jewish American male comedians
20th-century American comedians
21st-century American comedians
Boxers from New York City
Men centenarians
21st-century American Jews

masks:
" Irwin Corey
Corey
Corey
Corey
Corey
Corey
Corey
Corey
Corey
Corey
Irwin Corey
Corey
Corey
Corey
Corey
Irwin
Corey
Corey
Corey
Corey
Corey
Corey
Corey
Corey
Corey
Corey
Corey
Corey
Corey
Corey
Corey
Corey
Corey
Corey
Corey
Corey
Corey
Corey
Corey
Corey
Corey
Richard Corey
Corey
Corey Meister
Irwin Corey
Corey
Corey
Corey
Irwin Corey
Charlie Irwin
Irwin Corey
Irwin Corey


type: original

texts:
Brigadier General <mask><mask> (born August 23, 1963) is a retired senior officer of the United States Air Force. He served as the Deputy Commander, Operations and Interagency Integration, Joint Functional Component Command for Space, United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), and the Director for Mission Operations, National Reconnaissance Office. In this role, he led all Department of Defense space forces aligned with USSTRATCOM and provided tailored, responsive, local and global effects in support of national, USSTRATCOM and combatant commander objectives. As Director for Mission Operations, he led operations for all NRO overhead reconnaissance systems, ground stations, operational communications, and the operations center used to conduct intelligence activities essential for the national security of the United States and its allies. <mask> is the first United States Air Force general of Filipino descent. He retired from the air force on August 1, 2012. Early life
<mask> was born in Cavite, Philippines, at Sangley Point Naval Air Station, where his father was on active duty in the United States Coast Guard.He graduated from Amador Valley High School in 1981. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant from the United States Air Force Academy in 1985. Military career
<mask> gained extensive space operations experience working with United States Space Command, Air Force Space Command, 14th Air Force, the National Reconnaissance Office and Central Air Forces. He is a graduate of the Space Warfare Center's Space Tactics School. Additionally, he has supported the President and First Lady as a White House social aide. <mask> commanded the 614th Space Operations Squadron at Vandenberg AFB, California; NRO Operations Group at Onizuka Air Force Station, California; Space Operations Wing at the Aerospace Data Facility, Buckley AFB, Colorado; and 50th Space Wing, Schriever AFB, Colorado. He has also served as the Director of Space Forces while deployed to Southwest Asia for operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.

masks:
Cary C
. Chun
Chun
Chun
Chun
Chun


texts:
<mask> (May 6, 1902 – October 2, 1981) was an American writer and newspaper publisher. Early life
<mask> was born Herschel Goldhirsch (or <mask>) in the shtetl Mikulintsy, Ukraine, then part of Austria-Hungary. His mother Nuchama (nee Klein)
was Romanian and his father Leib was Austrian. In 1904 Leib Goldhirsch, a former Hebrew teacher, emigrated to Winnipeg, Manitoba, only to move the family to New York City the next year and "became an editor of the Jewish Daily Forward." For a time, <mask> worked as a newspaper seller on the Lower East Side and could remember shouting out headlines about the Leo Frank case about which he later wrote a book. As a teenager, he became interested in Georgism, and later spoke on its behalf. He became a stockbroker but lost his job in the 1929 stock market crash.Convicted of mail fraud because he had held onto funds entrusted and thereby caused a loss to investors, <mask> served four years in a Federal prison at Atlanta, Georgia and, decades later President Richard M. Nixon gave  <mask> a full presidential pardon for the mail fraud conviction. Desegregation
In 1941, he moved to Charlotte, where, as a reporter for the Charlotte Labor Journal and The Charlotte Observer, he wrote about and spoke out against racial segregation and the Jim Crow laws of the time. From 1942 to 1968, <mask> published The Carolina Israelite as a forum, not just for his political views but also observations and reminiscences of his boyhood in New York's Lower East Side. He traveled widely: in 1960 to speak to Jews in West Germany and again to cover the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann in Israel for Life. He is referenced in the lyrics to Phil Ochs' song, "Love Me, I'm a Liberal": "You know, I've memorized Lerner and <mask>." His satirical "The Vertical Negro Plan," involved removing the chairs from any to-be-integrated building, since Southern whites did not mind standing with blacks such as at bank tellers' windows, only sitting with them. <mask> reportedly convinced a southern department store manager to put an "Out of Order" sign by the water fountain marked White; within three weeks all were drinking from the Colored-designated drinking fountain.Calvin Trillin devised the Harry Golden Rule, which states that "in present-day America it's very difficult, when commenting on events of the day, to invent something so bizarre that it might not actually come to pass while your piece is still on the presses." <mask>'s books include three collections of essays from the Israelite and a biography of his friend, poet Carl Sandburg. One of those collections, Only in America, was the basis for a play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. He also maintained a correspondence with Billy Graham. Personal
His Irish Catholic wife, the former Genevieve Gallagher, had predeceased him. Critical attention
Theodore Solotaroff addressed the "<mask> phenomenon" in "Harry Golden & the American Audience" in Commentary magazine, March 1961. Irving Howe compared Philip Roth's early novel Portnoy's Complaint to For 2¢ Plain in a critical review of Roth's novel in Commentary when Complaint was published in 1969.Bibliography
 1944-1968: The Carolina Israelite. (Weekly newspaper published in Charlotte, NC)
 1950: (With Martin Rywell) Jews in American History: Their Contributions to the United States of America. (Henry, Martin Lewis Co.)
 1955: Jewish Roots in the Carolinas: A Pattern of American Philo-Semitism. 1958: Only in America. (World Publishing Co.) Republished 1972 by World Publishing Co.
 1958: For 2¢ Plain. (World Publishing Co.) Republished 1976 by Amereon Ltd., . 1960: Enjoy, Enjoy!(World Publishing Co.)
 1961: Carl Sandburg. (World Publishing Co.) Republished 1988 by Univ. of Illinois Press, . 1962: (Martin Levin, Ed.) Five Boyhoods. 1962: You're Entitle. (World Publishing Co.)
 1962: The Harry Golden Omnibus.(Cassell & Co.)
 1962: O. Henry Stories. (Platt & Munk) . 1963: Forgotten Pioneer. (World Publishing Co.)
 1964: Mr. Kennedy and the Negroes. (World Publishing Co.)
 1964: So What Else is New? (G.P. Putnam's)
 1965: A Little Girl is Dead (World Publishing Co., about the Leo Frank case)
 1965: Amerikah Sheli (My America).Hebrew. Selections from Only in America and For 2¢ Plain. (Jerusalem: Steimatzky)
 1966: Ess, Ess, Mein Kindt (Eat, Eat, My Child). (G.P. Putnam's)
 1966: The Lynching of Leo Frank (Cassell & Co., British version of A Little Girl is Dead)
 1967: The Best of <mask>. (World Publishing Co.)*
 1968: The Humor Gazette - Funniest Stories from Country Papers. (Hallmark Editions)
 1969: The Right Time: An Autobiography.(G.P. Putnam's)
 1970: So Long As You're Healthy. (G.P. Putnam's)
 1971: The Israelis: Portrait of a People. (G.P. Putnam's)
 1972: The Golden Book of Jewish Humor. (G.P.Putnam's)
 1972: The Greatest Jewish City in the World. (Doubleday & Co.)
 1973: (With Richard Goldhurst) Travels Through Jewish America. (Doubleday & Co.)
 1974: Our Southern Landsmen. (G.P. Putnam's)
 1975: Long Live Columbus (Leben Zul Columbus). (G.P. Putnam's)
 1981: (Unfinished) America, I Love You.<mask> is honored with a memorial on the central campus of Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte. References

See also, "Carolina Israelite: How <mask> Made Us Care About Jews, the South, and Civil Rights" by Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett, The University of North Carolina Press, 2015. External links
The Harry Golden Papers-Pt.1 J. Murrey Atkins Library, UNC Charlotte
The <mask> Golden Papers-Pt.2 J. Murrey Atkins Library, UNC Charlotte
Biography of <mask>

1902 births
1981 deaths
People from Terebovlia Raion
People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
Jews from Galicia (Eastern Europe)
Ukrainian Jews
Austro-Hungarian emigrants to the United States
American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent
Jewish American writers
American male journalists
20th-century American journalists
Writers from Charlotte, North Carolina
Stockbrokers
American male essayists
20th-century American essayists
20th-century American male writers
American satirists
Jewish anti-racism activists
Activists for African-American civil rights
Jewish American journalists
American people convicted of mail and wire fraud
Recipients of American presidential pardons
20th-century American Jews
Georgists

masks:
Harry Lewis Golden
Golden
Goldenhurst
Harry
Golden
Golden
Golden
Golden
Golden
Golden
Harry Golden
Harry Golden
Awards Golden
Harry Golden
Harry
Harry Golden


texts:
<mask> (; born 5 December 1969) is a British politician who has been Secretary of State for Health and Social Care since June 2021. He was Home Secretary from 2018 to 2019 and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2019 to 2020. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been Member of Parliament for Bromsgrove since 2010. Born in Rochdale, Lancashire, to a British Pakistani family, Javid was raised largely in Bristol. He studied Economics and Politics at the University of Exeter, where he joined the Conservative Party. Working in banking, he rose to become a Managing Director at Deutsche Bank. He was elected to the House of Commons in 2010.Under the coalition government of David Cameron he was a Junior Treasury Minister before being promoted to Cameron's Cabinet as Culture Secretary in the 2014 cabinet reshuffle. After the 2015 general election, Cameron promoted Javid to Business Secretary. Javid was a prominent supporter of the unsuccessful Britain Stronger in Europe campaign for the UK to remain in the European Union. Following the 2016 referendum vote to leave the European Union, he went on to serve under Cameron's successor Prime Minister Theresa May, as Communities Secretary from 2016 to 2018. When Amber Rudd resigned as a result of the Windrush scandal in 2018, Javid was appointed as her successor as Home Secretary, becoming the first British Asian to hold one of the great offices of state. After May's resignation, Javid stood for election as leader of the Conservative Party in the 2019 leadership contest, finishing in fourth place. The successful candidate, Boris Johnson, appointed him Chancellor of the Exchequer in his first Cabinet.<mask> resigned as Chancellor during the February 2020 cabinet reshuffle after refusing a demand from Johnson and his chief adviser Dominic Cummings that he dismiss his advisers. In June 2021, following the resignation of Matt Hancock, he was reappointed to Johnson's cabinet as Health Secretary. This made him a prominent figure in the British government response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. He supported an end to most generalised public health restrictions such as face mask mandates until emergence of the Omicron variant in November 2021, and expanded the vaccination programme. Early life
<mask> was born in Rochdale, Lancashire, one of five sons of Pakistani immigrant parents. His family were farmers from the village of Rajana near Toba Tek Singh, Punjab, from where they migrated to the UK in the 1960s. His father worked as a bus driver.His mother did not speak English until she had been in the UK for ten years. His family moved from Lancashire to Stapleton Road, Bristol, as his parents took over a shop there, and the family lived in a two-bedroom flat above it. Javid is able to hold a conversation in broken Punjabi. As a teenager, Javid developed an interest in financial markets, following the Thatcher government's privatisations. He says that, at the age of fourteen, he borrowed £500 from a bank to invest in shares and became a regular reader of the Financial Times. From 1981 to 1986, Javid attended Downend School, a state comprehensive near Bristol. At school it was recommended that he should be a TV repairman.Javid has said he was told that he could not study maths at O Level so he had to get his father to pay for it. When he later witnessed a video showing an assault on a Syrian refugee, he remarked that it was reminiscent of bullying he had experienced at school; Javid said he faced racial abuse when younger, being called a 'Paki', and having faced abuse from "National Front skinheads". Speaking in 2014, Javid said that while at school: "I was naughty, more interested in watching Grange Hill than homework". After being told by his school that he could only study two A Levels when he believed he needed three to go to university, Javid subsequently attended Filton Technical College from 1986 to 1988, and finally the University of Exeter from 1988 to 1991, completing a BA in economics and politics. Javid was a trustee of the London Early Years Foundation, a governor of Normand Croft Community School, and has led an expedition to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, the highest mountain in Africa, to show his support of Help the Aged. Early political activism
At university, he joined the Conservative Party. In 1990, aged 20, Javid attended the annual Conservative Party Conference for the first time and campaigned against the Thatcher government's decision that year to join the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM).He was handing out leaflets against the policy when he first met TV presenter Jeremy Paxman. He has since stated that Paxman first interviewed him at that same conference. From 1992 until 1996, he lived in New York City and rose to become the youngest Vice-President of Chase Manhattan Bank and during this period, he had a spell as an aide to Republican nominee Rudy Giuliani's success in the 1993 New York mayoral campaign. In 1998, <mask> was selected as prospective Parliamentary candidate for Brent North. However, he later withdrew. He worked as an adviser to Conservative MP Gary Streeter, the then Shadow Secretary of State for International Development. Banking career
Javid had an 18-year City career, during which he rose to become a Board member of Deutsche Bank International.<mask> joined Chase Manhattan Bank in New York City immediately after graduation, working mostly in South America and overselling Mexican government bonds prior to the Mexican peso crisis. Aged 25, he became a vice president. A 2012 article says he was vice-chairman, although his own website, among others, affirms the more probable claim that he was a vice-President, a more junior role at the bank. He returned to London in 1997, and later joined Deutsche Bank as a director in 2000. In 2004, he became a managing director at Deutsche Bank and, the following year, global head of Emerging Markets Structuring. In 2007, he relocated to Singapore as head of Deutsche Bank's credit trading, equity convertibles, commodities and private equity businesses in Asia, and was appointed a board member of Deutsche Bank International Limited. He left Deutsche Bank in 2009 to pursue a career in politics.His earnings at Deutsche Bank would have been roughly £3 million a year at the time he left and the Evening Standard once estimated his career change would have required him to take a 98% pay cut. Political career

Member of Parliament
On 28 May 2009, the sitting MP for Bromsgrove, Julie Kirkbride, announced that she would be standing down at the next general election in light of the expenses scandal; Kirkbride had represented the constituency since 1997. Her resignation was confirmed in December 2009, after she attempted to withdraw it. After a selection contest held by the Bromsgrove Conservative Association on 6 February 2010, in which he received over 70% of the votes cast by its members, <mask> was announced as the official Conservative Party parliamentary candidate for the 2010 general election. The other candidates up for selection included Ruth Davidson and Tina Stowell. On 6 May 2010, Javid received 22,558 votes, winning the seat by a majority of 11,308 votes. In terms of the number of votes cast in the constituency, this was an increase on the majority of 10,080 at the previous general election, though was a reduction when compared both to the actual number of votes his predecessor had received (24,387) and to the Conservatives' percentage share of the vote (43.7% versus 51.0% in 2005).The constituency's boundaries had reformed prior to the election. In 2019 general election, Javid received 34,408 votes and was returned as the MP for Bromsgrove, receiving 63.4% of the vote and increasing his already sizeable majority to 23,106 over Labour. Political recognition
According to former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, those MPs first elected in 2010 "are the best new MPs for over thirty years", and he identified Javid as one of six Conservative MPs that he believed had "already made an impact in the first term". Javid was also one of six new MPs profiled by the Financial Times, and was named as the Newcomer of 2010 by the ConservativeHome blog. In an analysis of the 2010 intake of MPs by Westminster consultancy firm Guide Public Affairs, Guide to the Next Prime Minister, published in August 2011, Javid ranked third, and was the top-scoring Conservative. In October 2012, Iain Dale in The Daily Telegraph included Javid in his list of "Top 100 most influential figures from the Right". Dale wrote: "His fast rise up the greasy pole into George Osborne's inner circle is not only proof of this man's ambition but also his talent."Nicholas Watt in The Guardian also suggested that Javid could rise to the top. In The Times 2014 right-wing power list, Javid moved up 18 places to #8, with the article stating that he had emerged "as the senior member of the 2010 intake" and that if "the Tories want to jump a generation, then a Javid leadership candidacy would provide the opportunity." The 2014 GG2 Power List ranked Javid as the most influential British Asian, and, at the accompanying GG2 Leadership Awards event on 5 November 2014, then-Prime Minister David Cameron described Javid as "the brilliant Asian man who I asked to join the Cabinet" and stated that "I want to hear that title 'Prime Minister' followed by a British Asian name." In July 2014, Forbes magazine compared Javid to Barack Obama and suggested that Javid could become the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. In January 2015, Javid was awarded the Politician of the Year award at the British Muslim Awards. In November 2017, <mask> <mask> won Patchwork Foundation's MP of the Year Award. In June 2018, a polling of Tory activists on ConservativeHome showed Javid was popular as a potential party leader.The poll is seen as a reliable barometer of grassroots opinion, although it is known to shift quickly. A separate poll of Conservative Party members by YouGov in July 2018 also showed he had high levels of support to become party leader. YouGov found Javid reached the height of the charts on two measures; with 64% thinking he is "up to the job" and 69% calling him "competent". Campaign against anti-Semitism

Javid's appointment as Home Secretary was welcomed by a number of Jewish organisations, including the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Jewish Leadership Council. Previously, as Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Javid wrote to all local council leaders to ask them to adopt the IHRA's definition of anti-Semitism. In 2015, addressing the Holocaust Educational Trust's annual dinner, the then Business Secretary Javid condemned "dinner party anti-Semites" and said, "I can't remember the last time I spoke to a Jewish friend or colleague who hasn't, at some point, found themselves sitting awkwardly at a dinner party while a fellow guest railed against the international 'kosher conspiracy'". In 2018, Javid suggested Jeremy Corbyn should quit as Labour leader following his decision to attend a 2014 wreath-laying at a cemetery which contained the graves of many Palestinian activists; including Salah Khalaf and Atef Bseiso, members of the Black September Organization.Criticism
In March 2018, Javid called Momentum "neo-fascist" in the House of Commons chamber. Momentum threatened legal action if he repeated the comment outside Parliament where parliamentary privilege does not protect him against a lawsuit. MPs including Jon Trickett, Chris Williamson, Alex Sobel, Clive Lewis and Caroline Lucas demanded Javid withdraw the statement and apologise. In July 2018, Javid back-tracked after Jeremy Corbyn had threatened legal action for linking Corbyn with Holocaust denial. Labour MPs accused Javid of "peddling a lie" and called on Theresa May to intervene. Javid rejected a request by the Muslim Council of Britain for an independent inquiry into allegations of Islamophobia within the Conservative Party. Javid said: "The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) does not represent Muslims in this country" and added "we don't deal with the MCB".Harun Khan, the MCB's secretary-general said, "it sadly indicates that the party has no interest in dealing with this matter with the seriousness it deserves". Javid was rebuked by MPs and human rights campaigners for tweeting about "Asian paedophiles", with the director of the Runnymede Trust commenting: "racialising this crime and focusing on the ethnicity of the sexual predators has done little to address why and how these victims were vulnerable to the prey of these sexual predators". The Independent suggested Javid had ulterior motives with an impending leadership battle and said, "If Javid imagines his racial and religious origins offer any defence to the charge of incendiary race-baiting, he must be out of his tiny mind." His comments were defended by Fraser Nelson, editor of The Spectator, who said: "The way to stop populists is for mainstream politicians to address difficult and important issues calmly and directly." Baroness Warsi has criticised Javid for dog-whistling: "he should read what these people are saying, because however much he dog-whistles, however much he panders to the right of our party, sadly the right of our party still believe he's far too Muslim to be leader of the party". In August 2019, John McDonnell questioned Javid's suitability for the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer, citing his background in sales of collateralised debt obligations (CDOs) and alleged links to tax avoidance schemes. Javid held several senior executive positions in investment banking, including a role with responsibility for sale of CDOs, and during his time Deutsche Bank had operated a tax avoidance scheme known as 'dark blue' that channelled bankers' bonus payments through the Cayman Islands.Conservative leadership elections

Joint leadership bid, 2016

In June 2016, following David Cameron's resignation after the result of the EU referendum, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Stephen Crabb announced that he would be standing in the 2016 Conservative leadership election, on a "joint ticket" with <mask>. If Crabb became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, <mask> would become Chancellor of the Exchequer if Crabb won. Crabb withdrew from the contest after the first round of voting amongst Conservative Members of Parliament. Shortly after withdrawing his bid, Crabb resigned from the Cabinet following allegations that he had sent suggestive messages to a young woman. In an interview with the Financial Times, <mask> said he had expected to be sacked when Theresa May became Prime Minister in July 2016, instead he was moved across in a re-shuffle to Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, and Crabb subsequently took a post as Parliamentary Chairman of "Conservative Friends of Israel". Conservative leadership bid, 2019

In May 2019, <mask> launched his bid to become Conservative leader with pledge to deliver Brexit and to "bridge divides" by promoting the shared values which unite Britain. He finished in fourth-place.<mask>'s campaign was advised by Matthew Elliott, former chief executive of Vote Leave. The campaign received funding from both Remain- and Leave-supporting Conservative donors. Javid indicated he would be prepared to take Britain out of the EU without a deal, and called for no-deal preparations to be stepped up. Javid set out his Brexit strategy in a piece for the Daily Mail, declaring "no, no, no" to the idea of allowing either another Brexit referendum, an early general election or revoking of Article 50. Also, Javid proposed to cover costs for implementing any new technology at the Irish border in a bid to try and break the deadlock over the Northern Ireland backstop. During the campaign, Javid also opposed the prorogation of parliament in order to deliver Brexit. He commented during the Channel 4 Conservative Party leadership debate, "You don't deliver on democracy by trashing democracy... We're not selecting a dictator of our country."A third party tweet which contained part of this quote on his leadership campaign Twitter account was deleted on 29 August 2019, the day after Prime Minister Boris Johnson's controversial decision to prorogue parliament. In a BBC Radio 4 interview on 31 August, Javid defended the prime minister's prorogation of parliament. The prorogation was ruled as unlawful on 24 September by the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. Javid said he was prepared to scrap the 45p rate of income tax entirely in a bid to inject more 'dynamism' into the economy, pointing to the fact that tax revenues increased after the decision to cut the 50p rate of income tax to 45p and his role in making the case for it when he worked in the Treasury. Javid was eliminated from the contest after achieving fewer votes than his three remaining competitors in the fourth round of voting. Early Parliamentary years (2010–2013)
Javid was briefly a member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee from June to November 2010, before relinquishing this position when he was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to John Hayes, then Minister of State for Further Education at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. Javid was one of the first MPs to become a PPS from the 2010 intake.On 14 October 2011, as part of a small reshuffle prompted by the resignation of Liam Fox as Defence Secretary, Javid was promoted to become PPS to then Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne. Treasury ministerial roles

In September 2012, Javid joined Osborne's Ministerial team as Economic Secretary to the Treasury. He was later promoted to Financial Secretary to the Treasury on 7 October 2013, replacing Greg Clark. As Economic Secretary, Javid was responsible for overseeing government plans for state-owned Royal Bank of Scotland Group and Lloyds Banking Group. Javid proposed to scrap rebate taxes for overseas investors in a bid to boost the competitiveness of asset management in the UK. In 2013, Javid was influential in getting the beer duty escalator abolished and cutting beer duty for the first time in over a half-century. In his honour, a commemorative beer was brewed called "Sajid's Choice" and served in the Strangers' Bar at the House of Commons and sold locally in Bromsgrove.Culture Secretary

On 9 April 2014, David Cameron appointed Javid to the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and Minister for Equalities following the resignation of Maria Miller over her expenses. This made him the first MP to have been elected at the 2010 general election to join the Cabinet, and the first British Pakistani MP to lead a Government Department. Shortly after his appointment, he was made a Privy Councillor. Javid defended media freedom and the right of the press to investigate wrongdoing by politicians and officials in his first appearance as Culture Secretary on BBC's Question Time programme. "The media are a cornerstone of our democracy, their freedom is very important and if they want to

masks:
Sajid Javid
Javid
Javid
Javid
Javid
Javid
Sajid
Javid
Javid
Javid
Javid
Javid
Javid


texts:
 investigate wrongdoing by politicians or any other public official they should do that and nothing should stop them from doing that." It was reported in May 2015 that in March, Javid had opposed plans by then-Home Secretary Theresa May to give Ofcom "counter-extremism powers" to vet British television programmes before they were broadcast. In a letter to David Cameron, he commented that countries which had similar arrangements "are not known for their compliance with rights related to freedom of expression and the Government may not wish to be associated with such regimes".His speech as Culture Secretary to the Union of Jewish Students' Annual Conference 2014 about the importance of diversity and free expression in the world of culture has been hailed by Isabel Hardman of The Spectator as "one of the finest speeches from a government minister I have ever read." In 2015, at a Board of Deputies of British Jews hustings event, Javid stated that publicly funded cultural institutions that boycott Israel risk having their government grants cut. Citing a boycott of the UK Jewish Film Festival by the Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn, Javid said: "I have made it absolutely clear what might happen to their [the theatre's] funding if they try, or if anyone tries, that kind of thing again." British playwright Caryl Churchill raised concerns about political interference in the arts, and questioned: "All Charlie Hebdo? Except when freedom of expression means freedom to criticise Israel". Business Secretary

Following the 2015 general election, <mask> was appointed as Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills in the new Conservative majority government under the leadership of Prime Minister David Cameron. He was at this time described as "the most robust right-winger in the cabinet", and a "true Thatcherite".After being appointed as Business Secretary, Javid said that there would be "significant changes" to strike laws under the new Conservative government, announcing that strikes affecting essential public services will need the backing of 40% of eligible union members under new government plans. Javid believed the UK ought to remain in the European Union. He described himself as a Eurosceptic with "no time for ever-closer union", but he wrote in The Daily Telegraph, "Just like Bank of England Governor Mark Carney and IMF head Christine Lagarde, I still believe that Britain is better off in. And that's all because of the Single Market. It's a great invention, one that even Lady Thatcher campaigned enthusiastically to create." In February 2017, it was revealed in court that Javid had ignored the advice of a senior civil servant in order to continue to grant export licences for weapons to Saudi Arabia, despite allegations of war crimes in the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen. A February 2016 email from Edward Bell, head of the Export Control Organisation, was read out as part of a judicial review into British arms sales to Saudi Arabia.The email said: "To be honest, and I was very direct and honest with [<mask> <mask>], my gut tells me we should suspend [weapon exports to Saudi Arabia]". In a later email, he said: "[<mask> Javid] decided not to take a decision about this last night and the matter has now been raised with [the prime minister]". Creation of a pubs code and pubs code adjudicator (PCA); the SBEE Act 2015 compelled the Business Secretary to create the office of the PCA in one year (s42 (1) SBEE Act 2015) i.e. by 26 March 2016. The code was not published until 20 July 2016 and came into force the following day 21 July 2016, the unlawful delay to the code was overseen by <mask> <mask>. Pub tenants were denied an opportunity to use their rights for months as the statutory deadline had been broken. This unlawful delay also pushed forward the pubs code review until 2019, when the code review could have happened a year earlier in 2018.Communities Secretary

In July 2016, <mask> was appointed Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government by Prime Minister Theresa May. In January 2018, he gained the additional portfolio of Housing in England. In the role, he focused on increasing housing supply, including delivering a new generation of affordable and council housing. He had previously described council homes as "poor housing for the poor", but helped secure funds for new local council building in the 2017 budget. In 2017, Javid threatened to cancel Europe's largest Palestine convention, Palestine Expo. Javid, whose department controlled the QEII Centre, had warned that he was "minded" to cancel the event. Javid's intervention came amid claims by various Jewish and pro-Israel groups that the organisers had previously praised Hamas.In 2017, a judge ruled that Javid acted unlawfully in issuing guidance to restrict local councils from pursuing Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel through their pension schemes. The Chair of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign called it a "victory for Palestine, for local democracy, and for the rule of law". As Communities Secretary, Javid launched a wide-ranging programme of leasehold and commonhold reform. This began with a forthright speech at the 2017 conference for the main leasehold property managers trade body ARMA (Association of Residential Managing Agents), where Javid targeted rogue managing agents as well as the exorbitant service charges faced by many leaseholders across England and Wales. This was well received by the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership charity. In September 2017, Javid championed innovation collaborative efforts between the UK and Commonwealth Nations by awarding the first Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship in Innovation to Joshua Cheong and Dr Khoo Hsien Hui respectively. In December 2017, after a public consultation which attracted a high response rate, it was announced that efforts to end 'feudal' leasehold practices would include a ban on future leasehold houses as well as setting ground rents in new build flats to zero.By April 2018, a series of policies aimed at regulating both the managing and letting agent sectors was unveiled such as a new system for leaseholders to challenge unfair service charges, empowering leaseholders to switch managing agent and requirements for managing and letting agents to professionalise their operations. Home Secretary
On 30 April 2018, Javid was appointed as Home Secretary after Amber Rudd resigned for misleading MPs about "targets for removing illegal immigrants", a consequence of the ongoing Windrush scandal. Javid began his role saying that he was determined to fix the injustices of the Windrush scandal, and launched a consultation. In becoming Home Secretary, he became the first person from an Asian background to hold one of the Great Offices of State in the UK. In his first months in charge, he put clear water between his tenure and Theresa May's lengthy stint at the Home Office. He offered an olive branch to the Police Federation, secured a review on medicinal cannabis oil, and won an increase in tier 2 visas for skilled workers. Javid won plaudits from Lord Tebbit, who suggested "<mask> <mask> has seized control of his notoriously bloody minded department".Immigration

In June 2018, Javid lifted the cap on immigration for NHS doctors and nurses and proposed adjustments to the "hostile environment" policy on immigration. Javid has argued against EU citizens having preferential rights to live and work in the UK after Brexit, saying, "There's no magical reason it should be only from the EU and I think being a global Britain means that should be from across the world." This was seen to be at loggerheads with Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond. Javid has said that EU citizens who have lived in the UK for at least five years would be eligible for a new "settled status" in the country post-Brexit. Child chess prodigy Shreyas Royal was allowed to stay in the UK after Javid personally intervened in the case under "exceptional talent" rules; it is very rare for the talent of a child to be a consideration in an immigration case. Javid unveiled plans at Cabinet for a crackdown on the number of low-skilled migrants coming to the UK after Britain leaves the EU, despite objections from Hammond and Greg Clark, the Business Secretary. It represented a significant victory for May and Javid and came after months of "Cabinet clashes" over the issue.Asylum and re-migration

In January 2019, Javid suggested denying asylum to asylum-seekers coming across the English Channel, questioning whether they were "genuine" and vowing to "do everything we [the UK] can to make sure that you are often not successful". This was objected to as a violation of international law by bodies such as the Refugee Council and Amnesty International. Javid made similar comments in February of that year when he said that British citizens who joined ISIS would not be allowed to return to the United Kingdom, despite a statement from the Justice Secretary David Gauke to the contrary, again affirming that such a course of action is illegal. On 19 February, Javid revoked the British citizenship of Shamima Begum, a British 19-year-old who left to join ISIS in 2015, when she was 16. He said that she had Bangladeshi citizenship, the country of her mother which she had never lived in, but both the Bangladesh state authorities and Begum denied this. The government had already failed in a similar move involving statelessness and Britons of Bangladeshi descent in 2017. This move enjoyed widespread popular support in the UK, with 78% of voters in a Sky News poll saying that Javid was right to strip her of her citizenship.However, Guardian journalist Amy Walker suggested that this feeling was not wholly shared in the area in which she formerly resided, Bethnal Green, and that many residents of the area did not believe she posed a threat or could not be reintegrated. Javid's decision was also opposed by Church of England bishops and Javid's political opponent, Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott, who said that the move was a breach of Begum's human rights. Amnesty International stated that revoking Begum's citizenship was "morally and legally questionable". On 8 March 2019, it was announced by Begum's family and officers of the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria that Begum's newborn son had died. Javid was widely criticised for his actions, and held directly culpable for the death of the boy, Jarrah, by a number of commentators, including British human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith. Police and crime

In 2018, his first speech to the Police Federation, Javid insisted, "I'm listening and I get it". He then promised a shift in priorities in a bid to better protect police officers in the next Home Office spending review.In his speech, Javid backed calls for spit hoods across all forces in England and Wales and leant his support to stop and search powers. In July 2018, Javid announced the UK government would not object to the United States seeking the death penalty for two suspected British members of ISIL, waiving its long-standing objection to foreign executions. In response to the child sexual exploitation scandal, Javid ordered research into why men convicted of grooming-gang sex crimes are disproportionately of Pakistani origin. He has argued that "we need an honest, open debate on child sexual exploitation, including racial motivation". The decision won praise, with Trevor Phillips suggesting "in his assault on liberal guilt over race, <mask> Javid is putting his Labour opponents to shame" and Camilla Cavendish commented that the "home secretary's heritage gives him a powerful voice against groomers". Javid vowed to use counter-terrorism powers to strip dual-citizens involved in child-grooming gangs and other serious crimes of their British citizenship. In December 2018, in what may be the first case of its kind, a man's dual-citizenship was removed on the basis that when he applied to be a UK citizen he lied about the fact he was sexually abusing a child.Javid launched an investigation into the Home Office's handling of forced marriage cases after The Times revealed that abusers are being handed visas. In a series of tweets, he said: "We will be doing more to combat it and support victims. Those who force British women into marriage, be warned that we are redoubling our efforts to make sure you pay for your crimes." Javid rejected a cross-party demand to introduce exclusion zones around all abortion centres in England and Wales, saying it would not be a "proportionate response". More than 150 MPs wrote to Javid, shortly after he took over from Rudd, calling on him to introduce a national ban. In 2018, Javid showed concern for the growing child abuse online making the use of technology insecure for children. He spoke at the NSPCC headquarters for online child sexual exploitation held on 3 September 2018.During his speech he announced the allocation of £21.5m for the investigation of the online child sex offenders on different technological and social platforms. He also announced the allocation of £26m for prevention activities to be carried out by different bodies. Drug policy
Javid used an exceptional power as home secretary to issue a licence for a child with acute epilepsy to be treated with medical Cannabis oil as a matter of urgency. Javid also launched a new panel to consider applications from patients seeking to use cannabis oil and announced a review of medicinal cannabis. Following advice from the Chief Medical Officer and the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, Javid announced that medicinal cannabis will be available for prescription on the NHS. Javid, writing in The Times, stated that prescribing medicinal cannabis was not a step towards legalisation for recreational use. Security

The Jewish Chronicle reported that Javid was taking steps to ban Hezbollah.The military wing of Hezbollah has been banned in the UK since 2008, but the political wing is not banned. In February 2019, Javid laid an order in Parliament adding Hizbollah's political wing to the UK's list of proscribed terror organisations. In 2018, Javid was a keynote speaker at the Conservative Friends of Israel Conference and stated he intends to strengthen the partnership between UK and Israel, "especially in security". In 2019, Javid announced the government would increase funding for the security of synagogues, schools and other Jewish centres. CST chief executive, David Delew said it was "extremely grateful to the Home Secretary for announcing a further year of increased funding". The government's new pledge will bring the amount it has allocated to the Jewish Community Protective Security Grant to £65.2 million since its introduction in 2015. In response to Christchurch mosque shootings, Javid warned social media firms that they would face the "force of the law" if they did not do more to remove extremist content and announced a forthcoming 'online harms white paper', which is expected to introduce legal regulation of online publishers and social media, including new censorship rules.Javid has condemned some critics of the government's Prevent anti-terror scheme for being "on the side of the extremists." Equality
Javid vowed to tackle anti-LGBT hate crime and set up a new LGBT Advisory Panel to deliver the Government's action plan. Javid apologised for historical homophobia within the Home Office: "Undercover police were instructed to loiter in bars, entrap gay men and put them in jail. Let me tell you, as the current Home Secretary, that was wrong, wrong, wrong, and I'm sorry that it ever happened". Javid announced a full Law Commission review of hate crime, including the possible addition of new "protected characteristics" such as misogyny and age in the same way as offences motivated by hostility based on race, religion, sexual orientation or disability. In 2018, charities estimated around one million older people were victims of physical, financial, psychological and sexual abuse each year. However, criminal convictions were rare and sentences considered lenient.Chancellor of the Exchequer

On 24 July 2019, <mask> was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in the new Boris Johnson cabinet. Upon his appointment, he tweeted that he was looking forward to working at the Treasury to prepare the United Kingdom for leaving the EU. In his first media intervention after becoming Chancellor, Javid pledged in The Sunday Telegraph to overhaul the Treasury's approach to Brexit, beginning with "significant extra funding" to get Britain ready to leave with or without a deal. In September 2019, Javid stood by Johnson's statement to suspend parliament and leave the EU. He confirmed that though Johnson would be looking for a new deal in the 17 October Council in Brussels, he would not ask for extension of Article 50 and hence the UK would leave the EU come 31 October. On 26 January 2020, a 50p coin to mark Brexit was unveiled by Javid, bearing the inscription 'Peace, prosperity and friendship with all nations' and the new leaving date of 31 January. Javid helped raise thousands of pounds at the Jewish Care business breakfast by auctioning a Brexit 50p coin, co-signed by himself and Boris Johnson.Javid intervened to ensure Andrew Bailey was appointed as Governor of the Bank of England. Dominic Cummings had lobbied for appointment of Andy Haldane to take over from Mark Carney as Governor. Javid also endorsed George Osborne to be the British nomination for managing director of the IMF, though Kristalina Georgieva was put forward as the EU's nominee. Resignation
Tensions between 10 Downing Street and Treasury had come to a head during August 2019, when the prime minister's chief adviser Dominic Cummings relieved one of Chancellor Javid's aides, Sonia Khan, of her employment, without Javid's permission and without informing him. It was alleged that, during her dismissal, Cummings "went outside No 10 and asked an armed officer to enter the building and escort Khan off the premises." Javid "voiced anger" to Johnson over the dismissal of Khan and Cummings faced the prospect of a probe by a governmental ethics watchdog following the dismissal. In November 2019, following questions of a rift between Johnson and Javid, Johnson gave his assurance that he would retain Javid as Chancellor after the 2019 general election.However, in the weeks leading up to the reshuffle, a number of briefings in the press had suggested that a new economic ministry led by Rishi Sunak might be established, to reduce the power and political influence of the Treasury. Sunak was considered to be a Johnson loyalist, seen as the "rising star" minister who had ably represented the prime minister during the 2019 election debates. By February 2020, it was reported that Javid would remain in his role as Chancellor and that Sunak would stay on as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, in order to "keep an eye" on Javid. On 13 February 2020, the day of the reshuffle, <mask> resigned as Chancellor of the Exchequer, following a meeting with the prime

masks: Javid Sajid Javid Sajid Sajid Javid Javid Sajid Javid Sajid Javid Javid


texts:
 minister. During the meeting, Johnson had offered to keep his position on the condition that he fire all of his advisers at the Treasury, to be replaced with individuals selected by 10 Downing Street. Upon resigning, Javid told PA Media that "no self-respecting minister would accept those terms". The Chancellor's resignation was unexpected, given Johnson's commitment to retain Javid within the Cabinet, and recent reports that an alternative finance ministry would not be made.Robert Shrimsley, chief political commentator of the Financial Times, stated that the prime minister's choices at the time risked damaging the government, that "good government often depends on senior ministers – and the Chancellor in particular – being able to fight bad ideas". Javid was due to deliver his first budget on 11 March 2020, which was expected to include increased spending on infrastructure, public services and the environment, with a higher level of investment in the north and the Midlands. On the day of his resignation, he was immediately replaced by his deputy, Rishi Sunak. Javid became the first Chancellor in 50 years to not have delivered any budget, since Iain Macleod. His time as Chancellor, 204 days, represented the second-fewest days in office since the Second World War. Backbencher (2020–2021)
Javid returned to becoming a backbench MP after resigning as Chancellor. In his first speech as a backbencher, after Prime Minister's Questions, he said that he felt he still had "more to give" in regards to his political future.In June 2020, <mask> announced that he would be working with the Centre for Social Justice think tank to lead an inquiry into child sexual abuse in the UK. He wrote in The Daily Telegraph of his concern that the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown was leading to a surge in child sexual abuse cases. In June 2020, <mask> was appointed a senior fellow at Harvard University (Harvard Kennedy School, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government). Javid was discussed in the media as an alternative candidate for the Conservative Party in the 2021 London mayoral election, to take the place of Shaun Bailey, before reports of a plot to replace Bailey were dismissed. In August 2020, Javid began in a paid role as a senior adviser to JPMorgan Chase. He joined on the bank's Europe, Middle East and Africa advisory council. His appointment was criticised by Labour MP Zarah Sultana as "undermining democracy" and she advocated the banning of MPs from taking second jobs.In June 2021, he appeared on GB News and advocated for the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Bill, describing child marriage as child abuse and stating that the consequences of child marriages were severe. Health Secretary

<mask> replaced Matt Hancock as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on 26 June 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic, after Hancock's resignation after leaked CCTV footage showed him breaking social distancing rules by having an affair with aide Gina Coladangelo at his workplace. Javid took over the prominent role in the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic as the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant was driving a third wave in cases across the country. Despite this, Javid confirmed that he would push for an end to public health restrictions, saying: "We are going to have to learn to accept the existence of COVID and find ways to cope with it – just as we already do with flu", a strategy supported by other Conservative MPs but prompting criticism from some scientists and health experts. He said the country could have as many as "100,000 daily cases", while pushing for relaxation of social distancing and self-isolation rules, and saying "there is no going back". On 17 July 2021, Javid tested positive for COVID-19 after having "very mild symptoms" and took a lateral flow test, whilst saying that he would self-isolate until he got a PCR test. Later that day, Javid's positive result had been confirmed by a PCR test, which saw the prime minister Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak being contacted by NHS Test and Trace.Both the Chancellor and Prime Minister had to self-isolate after u-turning from a proposed pilot scheme where they would not self-isolate and instead take daily tests. This came amidst pressure from the opposition Labour Party, particularly from Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer. Javid wrote on Twitter that he had recovered from COVID-19 on 25 July. He was criticised for insensitivity by several opposition MPs and the pressure group Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice for saying "if you haven't yet – get your jab, as we learn to live with, rather than cower from, this virus". Javid later deleted the tweet and apologised for the "cower" remark, stating: "It was a poor choice of word" and that he was "expressing gratitude that the vaccines help us fight back as a society." In early September 2021, although the JCVI "failed to recommend COVID-19 vaccines for healthy 12- to 15-year-olds, and instead advised that more children with underlying health conditions and vulnerable relatives should be offered the jab", Javid announced a plan to make vaccines available for the age group. Javid also announced plans to make COVID-19 vaccines compulsory for all NHS and care home staff.He was warned of staff shortages as a result of this policy. In a press conference in October 2021, Javid rejected calls to reintroduce general public health measures such a face mask mandates and more home working, as COVID-19 cases, hospitalisations and deaths began to rise. He warned the country could report 100,000 daily cases over the winter. He encouraged the public to follow government advice and for those who had not been vaccinated to do so. Political positions

Brexit
In 2016, Javid became a supporter of remaining in the European Union as a member of the Britain Stronger in Europe advocacy group in the EU referendum campaign. In the event, the public narrowly voted to leave the EU, resulting in Brexit, the UK's withdrawal from the European Union. Javid was a supporter of the Single Market, describing it as a "great invention, one that even Prime Minister Thatcher campaigned enthusiastically to create."Javid is known to have historically held Eurosceptic views; as a student in 1990 he was thrown out of the Conservative Party conference for handing out leaflets opposing Britain joining the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, the forerunner of the single currency. In 2015, Javid was an advocate for holding an EU referendum. While pro-Brexit Conservatives had long assumed he would join the Leave campaign, in the end he backed Remain. He was not often seen as very committed to that cause, and subsequently became a Leave supporter. While Javid said this was not as a result of pressure from either David Cameron or George Osborne, the Financial Times reported that Osborne "got the thumbscrews out" because it would have been completely unacceptable for a Conservative Business Secretary to have advocated Brexit. Javid has maintained his position that politicians should respect the result of the referendum, and when judges ruled that the PM could not trigger the formal Brexit process without Parliament's backing, Javid accused British High Court judges of attempting to thwart the will of the British people. Since the referendum Javid said that he was sceptical of softer Brexit options such as remaining in the customs union, saying the free trade area was an "intrinsic" part of the European Union and that voters had given "clear instructions" when they voted to Leave.Javid's comments drew criticism from the CBI. In 2019, Javid said he considered the Brexit Party not to be extremist and praised Nigel Farage: "I applaud Nigel Farage for walking away, calling UKIP thugs and extremists." The move was seen by some as an effort by the Conservative Party to "extend an olive branch" to the Brexit Party. As Chancellor, Javid drew up plans for millions of 50p Brexit coins to be minted in time for Britain's departure from the EU. Javid's proposal for the coins to be produced for mass circulation was portrayed as a statement of intent that the Treasury is fully behind Brexit, in contrast to previous Chancellor Philip Hammond. In January 2020, Javid said regarding the future relationship with the EU: "There will not be alignment, we will not be a ruletaker, we will not be in the single market and we will not be in the customs union – and we will do this by the end of the year". Israel and Palestine
Javid is regarded as one of Israel's staunchest supporters in the Cabinet, and is a long-time supporter of Conservative Friends of Israel.At a 2012 event hosted by them, he said he would, out of all the countries in the Middle East, choose Israel as home:

Addressing the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in 2017, Javid commented that attempts to block contacts with Israel are failing, and that the government will "celebrate the Balfour centenary with pride". Ronald Lauder, president of the WJC, said the global Jewish community "treasured" Mr Javid as a staunch friend of the Jewish people. Lauder has been criticised for funding an organisation which ran anti-Muslim campaigns. At a joint meeting between the American Jewish Committee and the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Javid told his audience, "As long as I am in government, as long as I am in politics, I promise you that I will do everything within my power to fight back against those who seek to isolate and undermine Israel". At the Conservative Friends of Israel Conference of 2018, Javid explained how a school trip to Israel by his brother forty years ago set off his lifelong support for Israel and added, "my dad explained the history, how it came about and why it is such a special place. Since then I always wanted to visit." Javid visited when he and his wife spent their honeymoon there.A Labour Party member resigned in 2019 after referring to Javid as a "treacherous choc ice" for making comments that were supportive of Israel. Visit to the Western Wall
In 2019, Javid became the first British minister in 19 years to visit the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem. Visits to the Western Wall by foreign dignitaries are opposed by Palestinians, who say they legitimise Israeli claims to the eastern half of the city, which they claim for the capital of a future Palestinian state. Javid was advised by officials not to visit the Western Wall during a visit to Israel because of "long-standing policy of over two-decades". In January 2020, at the reception of Conservative Friends of Israel, he told the audience that his response was – "You know what? I told them to 'get stuffed' and I went anyway". Campaign against BDS

Javid has a history of campaigning against Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS).In 2014, he told attendees at the Union of Jewish Students conference that he will "always be proud to stand up and resist calls for boycotts of Israel". In 2015, as Culture Secretary, Javid advised The Board of Deputies that he had "no tolerance for cultural boycotts of Israel". In 2016, as Communities Secretary, Javid announced measures to prevent British councils from imposing boycotts of Israel and issued local authorities' with investment guidance affecting Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS). In 2018, at a Conservative Friends of Israel conference, Javid detailed his parliamentary record against BDS:

Affiliations
Javid is an Honorary Vice President of Conservative Way Forward, a Thatcherite pressure group of Conservative activists. He is also a member and regular speaker for Conservative Friends of Israel. Javid is a member of pro-Brexit group the European Research Group (ERG). Political influence

Thatcherism
Javid's father had inspired a devotion to Margaret Thatcher: "My dad lived through the winter of discontent and used to vote Labour, but switched to Thatcher, saying, 'look how she's sorting out the country'.I agreed". <mask> has spoken of Thatcher's handling of the Falklands Conflict as a defining moment, saying: "That was a big moment for me in understanding war and how it happens, and admiring Margaret Thatcher and her decisiveness. That's how my political awareness really took off." In 2013, when he became Financial Secretary to the Treasury, he rejected works of art from the Government Art Collection and personalised his office with a portrait of Thatcher. Javid was described by Tim Montgomerie as the "first of Thatcher's children". Javid met the former Prime Minister at a Conservative Party fundraiser in his late twenties and at the meeting Thatcher purportedly said, "<mask>, you will protect our great island." Objectivism
One of Javid's heroines is Ayn Rand, who is the proponent of a philosophical system known as Objectivism; he recounted once that he regularly rereads the courtroom scene from her novel The Fountainhead, telling The Spectator he admired its description of "the power of the individual ... sticking up for your beliefs, against popular opinion".At a Crossbench Film Society event, Javid chose to introduce the film version of The Fountainhead and described the profound effect it had on him after watching it as a 12-year-old. <mask>'s wife once threatened to divorce him if he did not stop reading The Fountainhead aloud to her. Javid has subsequently rejected core principles of Objectivism, stating he is instead motivated by altruism and went on to clarify he appreciates The Fountainhead because he identifies with the main protagonist: "It's about the underdog. Whatever Howard Roark wanted to do there were people lining up against him and saying—'no, you will fail'—and he kept going right to the end". Philosopher and theologian John Milbank commented, "It is extraordinarily disturbing that any mainstream politician should express any admiration for Ayn Rand. We should be concerned that someone like <mask> <mask> can now hold high office within the United Kingdom." Neoconservatism
Javid has been a regular attendee and speaker at US neoconservative thinktank American Enterprise Institute's (AEI) annual conference, whose members include Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz and John Bolton.Javid has consistently supported foreign military intervention, having voted for intervening in Gaddafi's Libya, as well as air strikes in Iraq and Syria. In March 2014, Javid accused then-Labour Party leader Ed Miliband of having some responsibility for the crisis in Crimea, alleging that there was "a direct link" between Miliband's refusal to support military intervention in Syria and the subsequent Russian activity in Ukraine. In 2018, Javid declared in his Commons register of interests that the AEI had paid £9,266 to fund his trip to the conference in Georgia. Personal life

Family
Javid was raised in a two-bed flat above a shop in Bristol with four brothers. His brother Deputy Assistant Commissioner Bas <mask> was Commander of Solihull Police division, and later promoted as Commander at Scotland Yard, in charge of front-line policing. Bas <mask> had previously served in the Royal Navy, wherein his military service included the Gulf War — for which he received a commendation for teamwork and bravery. In 1997, Javid married his childhood sweetheart Laura King, whom he met while sharing a stapler at the local Commercial Union branch during a summer job.She – a church-going Christian – and he have four children. The couple had their honeymoon in Israel. Their children are privately educated, something that Javid attributed to the couple's desire to "do what's best for them". The family own properties in Fulham, Chelsea, Bristol and Bromsgrove. They own a Cavapoo named 'Bailey', which featured prominently in Javid's 2019 campaign video to be Conservative Party leader. <mask>'s eldest brother Tariq died in July 2018 in "an unnatural death"; a full inquest was held, in which the coroner ruled Tariq had intentionally killed himself after drinking alcohol and taking codeine at the luxury South Lodge Hotel, which was near his home in Horsham. In a letter left to Sylvia — his partner of 15 years — Tariq suggested that, due to ill health, he would not "last long".Tariq was a successful businessman and managed a supermarket chain. His other siblings are Khalid, a financial advisor, and Atif, a multi-millionaire property tycoon. Before he became an MP, <mask> was briefly a director of Atif's main investment vehicle, SA Capital. Religion
Javid is said to have received religious hate mail in the form of a "Punish a Muslim day" parcel; as of March 2018, he was the fifth British MP to receive such abuse. While his family's heritage is Muslim, Javid himself is non-practising but has remarked that he was 'the first Muslim Home Secretary to be invited (to the iftar)', whereas his wife is a practising Christian. Addressing a church-hosted husting in his inaugural election campaign for Bromsgrove on 22 April 2010, Javid told the audience:

Javid has said that it is "lazy" and "wrong" to suggest terror has nothing to do with Islam. Speaking at a Muslim News Awards ceremony in 2017, Javid said that those who attack and kill in the name of Islam had no right to do so and that "we can't deny that these people think they are Muslims.They identify as Muslims. They genuinely believe they are acting for the glory of Islam." <mask> wrote in The Times that, "there's a special, unique burden on the Muslim community" to do something about terrorism. Javid has criticised those in the Muslim community who question his Muslim faith and refer to him as a "Coconut" or an "Uncle Tom". In March 2019, Wayne Kirby, a Tommy Robinson supporter, was jailed for 28 days for posting threatening and abusive comments on Facebook about Javid. Kirby referred to Javid as "a Muslim terrorist" and threatened Javid would be "hung, drawn and quartered" if anything happened to Robinson. In 2021, <mask> said he was rejected early in his political career by a Conservative Association to be their candidate because of his religion and that an Association Chairman has explained: "some members didn't think locals would vote for a Muslim to be their MP".Notes

References

External links

<mask> <mask> is fifth MP to get 'Punish a Muslim' parcel
<mask> <mask> MP Conservative Party profile
Bromsgrove Conservatives

Official channel at YouTube
Debrett's People of Today

|-

1969 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Exeter
British Secretaries of State
British bankers
British expatriates in the United States
British former Muslims
British politicians of Pakistani descent
Chancellors of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Critics of Islamism
Deutsche Bank people
Economic Secretaries to the Treasury
English people of Pakistani descent
English people of Punjabi descent
Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
Politicians from Bristol
People from Littleborough, Greater Manchester
Presidents of the Board of Trade
Secretaries of State for Health and Social Care
Secretaries of State for the Home Department
UK MPs 2010–2015
UK MPs 2015–2017
UK MPs 2017–2019
UK MPs

masks: Javid Javid Javid Javid Sajid Javid Sajid Javid Javid Javid Javid Javid Javid Javid Sajid Javid Sajid Javid


texts:
<mask> (born 29 December 1978) is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is currently the U23s manager at Ipswich Town. Born in Ipswich, <mask> played youth football for his home club Ipswich Town before going on to make nearly 100 league appearances for the club's first team. He was sold to Newcastle United for £6 million, at the time the highest fee paid for an Ipswich player, and made nearly 200 appearances for Newcastle between 1999 and 2007. A move for the same fee to West Ham United followed, but <mask> suffered from various injuries, restricting him to 30 league appearances in four seasons. After a short loan back to Ipswich in March 2011, he signed for newly promoted club Queens Park Rangers ahead of their 2011–12 Premier League season. However, his time at QPR was again blighted by injuries and he made just eight appearances for the club before being released in January 2013, spending the rest of the season at Middlesbrough before retiring.<mask> represented England on 33 occasions between 1999 and 2007. He was a member of the England squads which reached the quarter-finals at the 2002 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2004. Club career

Ipswich Town
Dyer was born in Ipswich, to an Antiguan father and English mother. <mask>'s career began with his hometown team, Ipswich Town, whom he signed for as a 17-year-old trainee in 1996. He broke into the Ipswich first team during his first season at the club, and quickly established a reputation as one of the top youngsters in English football outside of the Premier League. He had spent three years at Portman Road when he requested a transfer in order to further his international prospects following Ipswich's failure to gain promotion to the Premier League through the play-offs in 1999. Newcastle United

<mask> was sold to Newcastle United in July 1999 for a fee of £6 million, which stood as the record transfer fee received by Ipswich Town until Connor Wickham was sold to Sunderland.He was the only English player signed by Ruud Gullit during his spell as Newcastle's manager. <mask> opened his Newcastle goalscoring account at home to local rivals Sunderland, but the match ended in a 2–1 defeat, which saw Gullit resign shortly afterwards. Under Gullit's replacement, Bobby Robson, <mask> was a key player in the Newcastle team which finished fourth, third and fifth in the 2001–02, 2002–03 and 2003–04 Premier League seasons respectively. On 2 April 2005, <mask> was involved in an on-pitch brawl with teammate Lee Bowyer in Newcastle's Premier League match with Aston Villa, and both had to be pulled apart and separated by their teammates and Villa players. This resulted in <mask> and Bowyer receiving red cards, leaving Newcastle with eight men as Steven Taylor had already been sent-off for a deliberate handball. <mask> was handed a three-match ban by the FA for the sending-off; Bowyer received a four-match ban from the FA and was fined more than six weeks' wages – about £200,000 – by Newcastle. Later in April, The FA increased Bowyer's ban by three more matches and fined him £30,000.In 2006 the Newcastle Magistrates' court fined Bowyer £600 and ordered him to pay £1,000 costs after he pleaded guilty to sparking the brawl. At the start of the 2005–06 season, <mask> was once again on the injured list, this time with a hamstring injury, preventing his selection for club or country. This followed a close-season in which Newcastle manager Graeme Souness signed a number of other midfield players, including Emre Belözoğlu, Scott Parker, Albert Luque and Nolberto Solano. <mask> returned to first-team action on 4 February 2006 against Portsmouth, Newcastle's first match following the departure of Souness. <mask> marked his first start of the season since the opening day against Arsenal with a goal in a FA Cup fifth round match against Southampton on 18 February 2006. <mask> became the first Newcastle United player to score at the Emirates Stadium in a 1–1 draw with Arsenal on 18 November 2006. In what was his first start in seven months, <mask> opened the match's scoring after 30 minutes with his first league goal for Newcastle in over 20 months.He continued his rich vein of form, also scoring against Tottenham Hotspur, Bolton Wanderers, Birmingham City, Aston Villa, AZ and Watford. Following his return from injury, <mask> showed his versatility by playing in central midfield, right midfield and as an attacking midfielder, supporting Obafemi Martins. <mask> was given permission to speak to West Ham United in August 2007 after both clubs agreed an undisclosed transfer fee. On 4 August, West Ham confirmed the deal had fallen through due to Newcastle's pulling out of the deal. However, the deal was rectified with <mask> finalising a move to Upton Park. West Ham United

<mask> completed a move to West Ham on 16 August 2007 for £6 million, signing a four-year deal. He made his debut for West Ham in a 1–0 away win at Birmingham City on 18 August 2007.However, this was one of the few positives in <mask>'s time at West Ham as he was thereafter blighted by injury. Just ten days after his debut, he was stretchered off after a tackle by Joe Jacobson in a League Cup match against Bristol Rovers that resulted in his right leg being broken in two places. <mask> subsequently missed the rest of the 2007–08 season. His injury was re-assessed in August 2008, when it was decided that a six-week specialist rehabilitation programme was required before he began pre-season training. During this time, <mask>'s slow recovery from his injury sparked widespread speculation that his career may be over. On 3 January 2009, <mask> made his comeback for West Ham after 17 months out, coming on as a second-half substitute against Barnsley in the FA Cup third round tie at the Boleyn Ground. <mask>'s injuries continued in May 2009 when he was ruled out with a hamstring injury.He played in West Ham's first match of the 2009–10 season against Wolverhampton Wanderers, but had problems with injuries after the match. He managed only one more match, away to Blackburn Rovers, before hamstring problems hit again. He returned for two further matches before another injury in September kept him out until returning in a reserve match against Stoke City in November when he scored two goals. After taking over West Ham in January 2010, David Sullivan revealed the full extent of the club's debts, which totalled £110 million. Shortly afterwards, in addition to the swingeing cuts being made by vice-chairman Karren Brady, Sullivan suggested that <mask> should follow Dean Ashton into retirement; Sullivan expressed the club's frustration that <mask>, who was earning £60,000 per week, had only played 18 matches in three years. <mask>'s hometown club Ipswich Town had expressed an interest in re-signing <mask>, but the move stalled amid reports <mask> had demanded a £1 million pay-off from West Ham; the media had also speculated about whether <mask> could actually pass a medical. In May 2010, figures in The Daily Telegraph stated that <mask>, who had made only 22 appearances and had never played a full 90 minutes for West Ham, was the club's top earner on £83,000-a-week.His deal included £424,000-a-season for image rights and £100,000 in loyalty fees. <mask> was released by West Ham at the end of the 2010–11 season, after costing the club around £450,000 for every match he played in. Return to Ipswich Town (loan)
On 11 March 2011, <mask> returned to his first club, Ipswich Town, on a month-long loan. He was handed the number 30 shirt. He made his second debut for Ipswich at Elland Road against Leeds United on 12 March before being substituted in the second half in a 0–0 draw. In April 2011, West Ham manager Avram Grant refused a request by Ipswich to retain <mask> until the end of the 2010–11 season, and he returned to West Ham after having made four appearances for Ipswich. Queens Park Rangers
In July 2011, <mask> signed a one-year contract with Queens Park Rangers.He made his debut on 13 August 2011, the opening day of the Premier League season, against Bolton Wanderers, but after just three minutes, he was stretchered off with an injured foot. During his recovery, he sustained ligament damage to his foot in a reserve match. This injury required surgery and he was ruled out for the remainder of the season. Because of his injury, <mask> was omitted from QPR's 25-man squad for the second half of the 2011–12 Premier League season. Despite only playing seven minutes of the 2011–12 season, <mask> signed a one-year contract extension with QPR to keep him at the club until the end of the 2012–13 season. <mask> scored his only goal for the club, in stoppage time, on 5 January 2013, in an FA Cup third round tie against West Bromwich Albion to finish the match 1–1, his first goal in almost six years. Just three days later, he was released from QPR by manager Harry Redknapp, who said, "[<mask>] wasn't in my plans."In January 2013, after his release, <mask> began training with Ipswich Town to maintain fitness while looking for a new club. Middlesbrough and retirement
<mask> had returned to Ipswich following his release from QPR and had returned to training with the Championship side in January 2013. On 31 January 2013, <mask> signed a "short-term" contract with Championship club Middlesbrough. <mask>'s Middlesbrough debut came on 2 February away at one of his previous clubs, Ipswich Town, with Boro losing 4–0. On 2 March, <mask> scored his first goal in a 2–1 home win over league leaders Cardiff City, his first league goal since 2007. On 16 April, in a 1–0 home win over Nottingham Forest, <mask> lasted the 90 minutes for the first time since he joined QPR back in 2010. At the end of his contract, <mask> was not offered an extension, and he left the club.<mask> returned to Ipswich as an academy coach following his departure from Middlesbrough. He confirmed he had been back training with the first team during the close of the 2012–13 season. There was speculation in the local press at the time that he would soon rejoin for Ipswich, however he was not offered a contract and subsequently retired from playing - but remained at the club as an academy coach. International career
After representing England at Youth, Under 21 and "B" level, <mask>'s debut for the senior team came on 4 September 1999 when he started in England's 6–0 win against Luxembourg. He was deployed out of position at right back, and was replaced by Gary Neville at half-time after injuring himself while setting up Alan Shearer's third goal of the match. The injury was not serious and he was able to make his second England appearance four days later, coming on as a late substitute for Steve McManaman in a 0–0 draw with Poland. England qualified for the Euro 2000 competition but <mask> was not selected for the squad for the tournament, though he had recovered from injury and taken part in pre-tournament friendlies against Argentina and Ukraine.Along with a number of other young players who failed to make the squad – including Rio Ferdinand, Frank Lampard, Michael Duberry, Jody Morris and Jonathan Woodgate – <mask> took a drunken holiday to the Cypriot resort of Ayia Napa. The holiday hit the headlines when a video of <mask>, Ferdinand and Lampard having sex with a number of women was leaked to The News of the World. Shortly after the story broke, it was revealed that <mask> had spent a night in hospital after being glassed in the face during a fight in an Ipswich night club. <mask> returned to the England squad for the first game after Euro 2000 for the first qualifier for the 2002 FIFA World Cup, against Germany, the last football match at the original Wembley Stadium. England lost 1–0, after which manager Kevin Keegan resigned. Despite having played only 45 minutes of football under new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson, <mask> was named in the squad for the 2002 World Cup. Two days after the squad was announced, <mask> suffered knee ligament damage after being tackled by Tahar El Khalej in a league game against Southampton.However, he recovered just in time to remain in the squad. He made three appearances, all as a substitute, in the tournament until England were eliminated in the quarter-finals by eventual champions Brazil. <mask> played in several of Euro 2004 qualifiers but only had seven minutes on the pitch at Euro 2004, coming on as a late replacement for Wayne Rooney in England's second group match, against Switzerland. After making some appearances during England's FIFA World Cup 2006 qualifying <mask>'s run in the England squad was ended by the recurrence of a hamstring injury while playing against Middlesbrough. After almost two years without making an appearance for England, <mask>'s form for Newcastle earned him a call up to Steve McClaren's England starting line-up for a friendly against Spain in February 2007. His most recent, and subsequently final, appearance for England came in a 2–1 friendly defeat to Germany in August 2007, <mask> replacing Alan Smith in the second half. Coaching career
Following his retirement from playing, <mask> took up a role as an academy coach at his first club Ipswich Town in 2014, becoming assistant manager of the under-18 youth team in August 2018.He departed the club in August 2019, outlining his intentions to move into first team management. On 26 October 2020, Ipswich confirmed that <mask> would be returning to the club to become the head coach of the club's under-23 team. <mask> has since also become more actively involved in first-team affairs since the appointment of new manager Paul Cook in March 2021, often assisting with coaching and being present in the dugout. Personal life

In February 2018, <mask> told the public that at the age of 11 he had been sexually abused by his great uncle Kenny, by then deceased. In November 2015, <mask> was named as a contestant on the fifteenth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!. He came fourth on the show after lasting 21 days, and donated his entire fee to the Jude Brady Foundation. <mask> competed in the third series of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins in 2021.During filming, he clashed violently with instructor Jason Fox, which he attributed to the abuse he suffered as a child. <mask> was withdrawn with a collapsed lung, for which he was hospitalised in October. On 31 October, following a series of tests in hospital, Ipswich Town confirmed that he had been diagnosed with primary sclerosing cholangitis and would undergo a liver transplant. Career statistics

Club

International

Honours
Individual
PFA Team of the Year: 1997–98 First Division, 1998–99 First Division, 2002–03 Premier League

References

External links

1978 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Ipswich
English footballers
Ipswich Town F.C. players
Newcastle United F.C. players
West Ham United F.C. players
Premier League players
England under-21 international footballers
England international footballers
England B international footballers
2002 FIFA World Cup players
UEFA Euro 2004 players
Black British sportspeople
England youth international footballers
Queens Park Rangers F.C.players
Middlesbrough F.C. players
English Football League players
Ipswich Town F.C. non-playing staff
Association football midfielders
English sportspeople of Antigua and Barbuda descent
I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (British TV series) participants
Association football coaches

masks:
Kieron Courtney Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer
Dyer