By Bagehot
KWASI Kwarteng, elected in 2010 as the Conservative MP for the accurate seat of Spelthorne, is by frequent consent a rising star of the factual. His CV bears academic distinctions within the identical manner that a Russian customary’s chest bears medals: scholar at Eton, factual diploma then a history PhD at Cambridge, Kennedy scholar at Harvard, even a feature on the college crew that received University Trouble, a brainy tv indicate. He has positioned himself on the crunchy factual of the brand new consumption, and is co-improving a e-book to come abet out at the moment environment out a new vision for the factual, with a title that amounts to the slapping down of a gauntlet, “After the Coalition”. The left of centre Observer, in a extraordinarily pleasant profile, notes that he’s tipped to be the “first murky Tory cabinet minister”, a lifeless millstone of a prediction that must fright as grand as it cheers, I’d contain idea.
