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Priti PatelPriti Patel was born in 1972 and her educational background is not as fancy as Dr Kwarteng's. She went to a comprehensive then studied economics at Keele. Then she went to Essex University, though I do not know what she studied.
She graduated, and you might imagine, given her pronouncements on lazy british workers, that she then got a job. Well she did: she was taken on by Andrew Lansley who was then head of the Conservative research department and she worked at conservative central office till 1995. From 1995-1997 she worked in the press office of James Goldsmith's Referendum Party (which, incidentally, sank like a stone: perhaps implying she wasn't very good?) After the 1997 election she rejoined the tories (they had changed their policy on europe so that was not necessarily unprincipled) and again worked in the press office for William Hague, dealing with media relations in London and the south east
She got into a bit of bother over comments about racism in the tory party in 2003 and left politics for while. She got a job with a firm called Weber Shandwick, a public affairs consultancy advising big companies: though what she had to tell them is not exactly tangible: connections matter though, I am sure. I don't think she liked working much, because she also stood for parliament in 2005, and also lost. She got elected in 2010, though
So far as I can see she also has never actually worked in a real job for any length of time: so very well qualified to lecture those who do ....
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Dominic Raab. Mr Raab was born in 1974 and he was educated at Challoner's Grammar school, which is, I believe, a selective state school. He then studied law at Oxford before getting a masters degree at Cambridge. He then got a real job as a business lawyer with Linklaters: one of the biggest business law firms in the world. They do a lot of work for the banks......
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In 2008 Linklaters was appointed to handle the insolvency of Lehman Brothers.[9] The court appointed auditor's report on Lehman revealed in March 2010 that Lehman, with no U.S. law firm willing to approve aggressive accounting practices used to hide debt, took advantage of a difference in treatment between English and New York law, and then found Linklaters willing to sign off on the practice so long as the "Repo 105" transactions moved through London.[10] There is no suggestion Linklaters acted unethically or improperly.[11]
In 2000 he became a civil servant at the Foreign Office, which according to Tory belief means he did not work at all: the civil service don't, you know. Then from 2006 - 2010 he worked in parliament serving as chief of staff for David Davis and Shadow Justice chief, Dominic Grieve
During the period when he was actually doing a job he spent a whole summer at the university of Birzeit, working with a palestinian negotiator evaluating world bank projects on the West Bank
He, too, was elected to parliament in 2010. He, too, has no experience whatsoever of work as that term is normally understood.