Kwasi Kwarteng
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Kwasi Kwarteng MP |
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Kwarteng in 2014
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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 | 14,152 (28.8%) |
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26 May 1975 London |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Alma mater |
Trinity College, Cambridge Harvard University |
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Member of Parliament Historian |
| Website | kwasi4spelthorne |
Kwasi Alfred Addo Kwarteng (born 26 May 1975) is a British politician and historian. A member of the Conservative Party, he has served as a member of parliament (MP) since 2010 representing the constituency of Spelthorne in Surrey.
Kwarteng was born in London. His parents migrated to the UK from Ghana as students in the 1960s.
Kwarteng attended Eton College as a King's Scholar. He then went on 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 at Cambridge University.
Prior to becoming an MP, Kwarteng worked as an analyst in financial services. A widely known historian, he has written a book, Ghosts of Empire, about the legacy of the British Empire, published by Bloomsbury in 2011. He has also co-authored (with Jonathan Dupont) the book Gridlock Nation on the causes and solutions to traffic congestion in Britain.
In 2014 he published War and Gold: A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures and Debt – a history of capital and the enduring ability of money – when combined with speculation – to ruin societies.War and Gold has been translated into Spanish and Mandarin Chinese. In 2015 Kwarteng published Thatcher's Trial: Six Months That Defined A Leader.
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