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Business Secretary Greg Clark: 'My mentors have been Jewish'

Cabinet member discusses his influences at Jewish Care breakfast

December 14, 2018 09:55
Greg Clark (second left) sees the funny side at the Mansion House event
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Having grown up in a working class part of Middlesbrough, Business Secretary Greg Clark had never met a Jew before starting university.

But since then, his closest mentors have been Jewish, he told Jewish Care supporters at the charity’s 90th Business Group breakfast, held at London’s Mansion House.

Two of his eldest child’s godparents are observant Jews, “a challenge for both the church that conducted the [christening] service and the rabbis of my friends, whom they approached for permission [to participate].”

It was through his “great friend Diana Gould”, who set up a home care business, that he “came to know about the extraordinary work and achievements of Jewish Care”.