The 57-year-old, who served under Boris Johnson, revealed that as a younger man he was a member of a firm that followed Liverpool Football Club.
Speaking at the Henley Literary Festival, a partner of The Independent, Mr Zahawi said: "I was part of Liverpool's firm and would go out looking for fights as a football hooligan. In one fight with Southampton fans, I remember a giant police horse smashed me into a shop front on Seven Sisters Road in London."
Mr Zahawi was elected as Conservative MP for Stratford-uponAvon in May 2010 and later went on to work as a business minister and chancellor under Mr Johnson's government. Mr Zahawi spoke about his checkered past when recounting his journey from Iraq to England as an 11-year-old who fled Saddam Hussein's regime with his family.
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