42-year-old Ghanaian wants to replace Theresa May as UK prime minister

General News of Monday, June 3, 2019

Source: primenewsghana.com

2019-06-03

Samuel Phillip Gyimah, a British politician of Ghanaian origin, joined the list of people hoping to replace Prime Minister Theresa May.

Gyimah, 42, is a former minister of universities. It's the first candidate to try to succeed Theresa May by supporting a referendum on any Brexit deal.

Sam Gyimah became the thirteenth candidate to join the Conservative leadership race, the BBC reported on Sunday (June 2nd).

The Conservative MP said he supported another vote between the Prime Minister's agreement, an exit without agreement and the maintenance of the EU.

He said he would vote "Stay" in such a ballot, but would not "campaign" actively for that.

Announcing his candidacy for the Sophy Ridge Sky program, Mr Gyimah said he was proposing to "widen the race".

The MP for Surrey East said that the wide range of opinions on Brexit among the public "was not reflected in the contest at the moment".

He added: "There is a wide range of candidates, but we only discuss a set of narrow points of view on Brexit."

Last December, Mr Gyimah left the government following Mrs May's plan for Brexit, claiming that he intended to vote against the deal and advocate another referendum.

"What most candidates are proposing is to offer a" no-deal "and a fudge on Theresa May's contract that has been heavily defeated," he said.

The MP said that providing a "last word on the Brexit agreement" would "bring the country closer".

About Sam Gyimah?

Sam Gyimah was born on August 10, 1976 in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. At the age of six, her parents separated and her mother returned to her home country, Ghana, with Gyimah, her younger brother and sister, while her father remained in the UK .

For the next ten years, Gyimah attended Achimota School in Accra, Ghana, after which he returned to the UK to attend the GCSE and Baccalaureate at Freman College, a public school in Buntingford, Hertfordshire. . He then continued his studies at Oxford University's Somerville College, where he studied politics, philosophy, and economics, and was elected president of the Oxford Union.

After graduating, Gyimah joined Goldman Sachs as an investment banker. In 2003, he left the company to found Clearstone Training and Recruitment Limited with his future Conservative MP Chris Philp. Clearstone and its affiliates joined the administration in 2007. In September 2005, Gyimah released a report from the Bow Group, a conservative think tank, entitled From the Ashes: The Future of the Conservative Party. He was then elected president of the Bow Group from 2006 to 2007.

In the Camden Council election in 2006, Gyimah went unsuccessfully to the Kilighly Ward elections. In December 2009, Gyimah was ranked third in the Gosport Primaries to succeed Peter Viggers, tilting against Caroline Dinenage.

He has been a member of Parliament for East Surrey since the 2010 general election.

Between 2014 and 2018, after serving as private parliamentary secretary to Prime Minister David Cameron and a government bad, Gyimah was promoted to a position of Deputy Secretary of State in Parliament.

He was Minister of Universities, Science, Research and Innovation from January 2018 until his resignation on November 30, 2018.

Gyimah has been married to Dr. Nicky Black since 2012, with whom he has a son and a daughter.