Iraqi refugee, Teletubby merchandise salesman, pollster, millionaire - meet the new chancellor.
Mr Zahawi's father, a businessman, got a tip-off that the authorities were coming for him and quickly arranged to fly out.His son has recalled the anxiety of watching the plane preparing to take off from Baghdad Airport.
The passenger turned out not to be his father, but the man who had been sitting behind him on the plane.So instead of growing up in Iraq, Mr Zahawi grew up in Sussex. He was educated at private and comprehensive schools and became a keen equestrian.
After studying chemical engineering at University College London, he followed in his father's entrepreneurial footsteps and set up a firm selling Teletubbies merchandise - a company which attracted investment from the then-Conservative politician Jeffrey Archer.
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