Kwarteng
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Kwasi Kwarteng MP |
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Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer |
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Assumed office 27 June 2017 |
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| Prime Minister | Theresa May |
| Chancellor | Philip Hammond |
| Preceded by | John Glen |
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Member of Parliament for Spelthorne |
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Assumed office 6 May 2010 |
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| Preceded by | David Wilshire |
| Majority | 13,425 (26.8%) |
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Alfred Akwasi Addo Kwarteng 26 May 1975 Waltham Forest, London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
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Trinity College, Cambridge Harvard University |
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Parliament of the United Kingdom Historian |
| Website | kwasi4spelthorne |
Kwasi Alfred Addo Kwarteng (born 26 May 1975) is a British politician and historian who has served as Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Spelthorne in Surrey since 2010.
Kwarteng was born in Waltham Forest in 1975 to parents who migrated to the UK from Ghana as students in the 1960s.
He attended Eton College as a King's Scholar before going up to the University of Cambridge where he read classics and history at Trinity College. He was a member of the team which won University Challenge in 1995 (in the first series after the programme was revived by the BBC in 1994). He attended Harvard University on a Kennedy Scholarship, and then earned a PhD in economic history from Cambridge University in 2000 entitled "The political thought of the recoinage crisis of 1695-7".
Prior to becoming a member of Parliament, Kwarteng worked as an analyst in financial services. He has written a book, Ghosts of Empire, about the legacy of the British Empire, published by Bloomsbury in 2011. He also co-authored Gridlock Nation with Jonathan Dupont in 2011 about the causes and solutions to traffic congestion in Britain.
Considered "a rising star on the right of the party", Kwarteng was the Conservative candidate in the constituency of Brent East at the 2005 general election. He finished in third place behind the incumbent Liberal Democrat MP Sarah Teather (who had won the seat in a 2003 by-election) and Yasmin Qureshi of the Labour Party. Kwarteng was chairman of the Bow Group in 2005–06. In 2006, The Times suggested that he could become the first black Conservative cabinet minister. He was sixth on the Conservative list of candidates for the London Assembly in the 2008 London Assembly election, but was not elected as the Conservatives claimed only three London-wide list seats.
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