page_title: Dominic Raab
section_title: Britannia Unchained
hierarchical_section_title: Dominic Raab / Writings / Britannia Unchained
caption_attribution_description: From left to right: Chris Skidmore MP, Dominic Raab MP, James Forsyth of The Spectator, Priti Patel MP and Kwasi Kwarteng MP
context_page_description: Dominic Rennie Raab is a British politician serving as First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs since July 2019. A member of the Conservative Party, he has also been the Member of Parliament for Esher and Walton since 2010.
  Raab was born in Buckinghamshire and attended Dr Challoner's Grammar School before studying law at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford and Jesus College, Cambridge. Raab worked in London at Linklaters and the human rights organisation Liberty, and in Brussels advising on law in the European Union and the World Trade Organization. In 1998, Raab worked for one of the Palestine Liberation Organization negotiators of the Oslo peace accords, assessing World Bank projects on the West Bank. Raab joined Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service in 2000 where he was a lawyer in The Hague, bringing war criminals to justice. After returning to London, he was an adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on the Arab–Israeli conflict, the EU and Gibraltar.
context_section_description: In September 2012 Raab co-authored the book Britannia Unchained. The book addressed issues of the national debt, state education, innovation and work ethic.
  Raab called for measures to cut regulation on start-up companies, expand vocational training, reduce childcare costs and lower marginal (income-focused) rates of taxation to "rediscover and reward the lost virtue of hard-work – a tried and tested route to individual success, a more prosperous economy and a fairer society."
  Writing on work ethic in The Daily Telegraph, Raab said that longer periods in education, earlier retirement, welfare dependency and high marginal rates of taxation had led to a situation where "(w)e have a smaller proportion of the workforce pedalling harder to sustain the rest – which is economically debilitating and socially divisive."
caption: From left to right: Chris Skidmore, Raab, James Forsyth of The Spectator, Priti Patel and Kwasi Kwarteng at a panel for the book Britannia Unchained in 2012
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