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Kwasi Kwarteng has been the Conservative Member of Parliament for Spelthorne since 2010. Born in London in 1975, Kwasi was educated at Eton College, where he was a King’s Scholar, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his B.A. in Classics and History. After a year as a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University, Kwasi returned to Cambridge to complete

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