By Rosie Kinchen.
Kwasi Kwarteng has an extraordinary laugh; a great booming sound that fills Portcullis House in Westminster and makes the cafeteria table vibrate. He unleashes it when he does not want to answer a question — which is frequently — eyeing me from behind thick black-framed spectacles, throwing his head back and emitting great guffaws before talking about something else entirely.
The 38-year-old Conservative MP for Spelthorne in Surrey has been called “the Black Boris” but reminds me of a self-satisfied Victorian professor. Kwarteng was one of the stars of the 2010 intake of Tory MPs, a former financial analyst with an impeccable academic track record. He has spent his time in parliament carving a name for himself as one of the leading figures in a new Tory right-wing vanguard — a group of young heirs to Margaret Thatcher whose views often oppose David Cameron’s vision of compassionate Conservativsm.
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