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Politician and historian. Conservative MP for Spelthorne since 2010. Books include Ghosts of Empire and Thatcher's Trial.

Kwasi Kwarteng is a Conservative politician, historian and the author of War and Gold: A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures and Debt.

Kwasi Kwarteng is a Conservative politician, historian and the author of War and Gold: A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures and Debt.

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