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Sajid Javid


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POLITICAL fortunes can dip and rise, ebb and flow as much any drama penned by the great Bard of Britain – William Shakespeare – but it would take a bolder scribe to predict just where and how Sajid Javid’s legacy might come to be viewed…it could still change radically over 2021.

It is perhaps far too early in this cycle of parliament and who knows how the winds will blow through Westminster once we are out of the pandemic and back to politics as usual – to know precisely whether we have seen the last of this popular (but not so populist) politician on the centre stage.

There were mutterings in the corridors of power in the Spring that Javid might return to an office of state and have a place in the Cabinet again. He has stayed loyal, has not been a troubling voice and hasn’t said anything to upset prime minister Boris Johnson.

His most recent nemesis Dominic Cummings is no longer at Number 10 calling the shots and has left the government completely. It was a showdown between Cummings and Javid as chancellor that saw him leave Johnson’s government in February last year. Cummings had demanded that all Treasury advisors be fired and replaced by ones handpicked by Number 10. There was tension but Johnson retained Khan’s services, saying he would keep him in the chancellors’ job – until Cummings re-asserted his own authority after the election in February last year.

Cummings’ magnetic spell on Johnson was only broken at the end of 2020 and that – and an imminent reshuffle (still speculation at the time of going to press) could see a door opening for a big hitter like Javid.

Last year’s GG2 Power List No 1, remains an MP for the well-heeled, genteel Birmingham suburb that

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