With a glittering CV and three books out this summer, the MP is tipped for a brilliant career, even being the first black Tory cabinet minister
'If I want to read a book, I write one," said Benjamin Disraeli, the first political "outsider" to become Tory prime minister. Few of those to follow Disraeli into the House of Commons over the last century and a half can have taken that Victorian lesson to heart as strongly as Kwasi Kwarteng. That the new MP will have no fewer than three books coming out in the space of a month, just a year and a half into his parliamentary career, suggests that this self-styled "black Boris" (as in Johnson) also sees scribbling as a route to the top of the greasy pole.
Kwarteng is often said to be a very different type of Tory, though this is almost entirely due to his Ghanaian parentage. In most respects, his background is as traditional as it gets, his path from Eton through Cambridge resembling the histories of the imperial administrators whom he sketches in his new book Ghosts of Empire, to be published by Bloomsbury next month....
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