Kwarteng was born in East London’s Waltham Forest in May 1975 to Ghanaian parents who had lived in the UK for ten years.

He had previously been the department’s Minister of State.

Since 2010, he has represented Spelthorne, Surrey, in South-East England as an MP.

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