Claire Coutinho joins UK cabinet as youngest minister, Know about her background, education, politics, reality TV show
Claire Coutinho became the youngest minister in the UK government when she joined it as the new secretary for energy security and net zero, replacing Grant Shapps. It is a huge opportunity for the young woman who was elected from East Surrey in December 2019. With this decision of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Coutinho has become a major figure in Conservative politics at a much younger age and with less experience. She is the only MP to be made minister from the lot that was elected to the Parliament in 2019.
Claire Coutinho was elected MP in 2019
Before getting elected to the House of Commons, the 38-year-old politician was an advisor to Rishi Sunak, who was the chief secretary to the Treasury. When Sunak became Chancellor, Coutinho became his parliamentary aide. She was very close to Suank and made all the major moves when he contested the party election for the coveted office of the prime minister.
Claire Coutinho: Immigrant's daughter
Claire Coutinho was born in London in 1985, but her parents came from India and worked in the UK as doctors. She went to James Allen's Girls' School in East Dulwich before joining Exeter College, Oxford University, where she studied mathematics and philosophy.
Claire Coutinho backs Brexit
After graduating from the university, Coutinho worked for the investment bank Merrill Lynch. Later she joined influential right-leaning think tank the Centre for Social Justice. Claire Coutinho worked for a not-for-profit organisation Housing and Finance Institute.
She contested the election from the Conservative stronghold of East Surrey, where the previous Tory MP Sam Gyimah had defected to join the Liberal Democrats. She supported the Brexit referendum of 2016 and fought the turbulent
