He has a strong relationship with Prime Minister candidate Liz Trace
Kwasi Quarting, the ambitious brown boy, aspires to the post of British Finance Minister
Kwasi Quarting was sacked in June.
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Kwasi Quarting loves to gossip and has a penchant for sarcasm.
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The boy had a strong friendship, the Minister for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Kwasi Quarting, and the British Foreign Secretary and potential candidate for prime minister, Liz Truss, they had been friends for more than a decade and became neighbors earlier this year when Quarting moved to Greenwich Street with a terrace.
This is a move, which those who know them say is a sign of their close and close relationship, and the move could bring Quarting closer to his dream of becoming Prime Minister, as expected.
Quarting and Trace, both 47, are said to have struck a deal that he would become finance minister if she wins the Conservative leadership election, in just over two weeks.
One of their friends says, "Kwasi and Terras make a great pair, they look a bit like Batman and his assistant Robin, and they support each other."
"They are both sociable, obsessive and friendly, and have strong views that go well with one another," adds the friend.
It is a remarkable turnaround for someone who was sacked by Prime Minister Boris Johnson from his job as business minister last June, which has left him "deeply upset".
His friends describe him as "very special" and unlike other MPs elected in 2010, such as Terrace, Sajid Javid and Priti Patel, he is not widely known to the public.
The only son of Ghanaian immigrants who came to the country as students in the 1960s, Quarting was born in East London in 1975. His father, Alfred, an economist with the Commonwealth Secretariat, was educated in Ghana at an Anglican school, and became the principal of an English language school in Winchester.
His mother, Charlotte, a successful lawyer and head of her group, helped instill a work ethic in her son, which expanded his mental faculties.
"Charlotte is a particularly important figure in his life," says one friend. "She is religious and has an unwavering love for public service."
After joining the fee-paying Colette Court Preparatory School - now St Paul's Juniors, in west London, at the age of eight - he won a scholarship to Eton, whom his friends said was one of her brightest pupils.
"He has an incredible skill in languages," says one of his contemporaries, "and astonished teachers when they introduced Italian into the school curriculum."
"The teachers were trying to teach the basics of Italian, but Quarting learned the whole language, and the teachers were struggling to keep up," he says.
In addition to Italian, he is fluent in French, Greek and German, and writes poetry in Latin.
Perhaps it is because of his college, and his love of the classics.
Similar to Johnson in "disorderly behaviour".
Like Johnson, Quarting was an avid Eton player, an odd mixture of football and rugby.
Like Johnson, Quarting won the most famous Newcastle Scholarship, for scoring the highest on a one-week special exam.
He is described as a strong man, both physically and intellectually.
Colleagues at the university described him as "very self-confident, but not arrogant", adding, "He may appear hasty or dismissive, but he is not rude to someone, and he is basically an academic."
He gained notoriety on campus as a first-year student after winning the University Challenge competition in 1995. He appeared on the third page of the British newspaper The Sun under the headline 'Bad University Competitor' when some heard him into the microphone making an expletive when he couldn't remember the answer.
In 2005, he ran as Conservative MP for Brent East, finishing third, before being elected MP to take the Conservative Party seat in Spellthorne, Surrey in 2010, the same year Terrace ran.
Quarting was a fan of the late prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, and had a strong belief in free markets even though his dealings with the energy industry tempered his views on state intervention.
Besides, he is very loyal to the party and once had to defend the finance minister, Richie Sunak, whom he does not like.
Professor Tim Whitmarsh, who taught him Latin and Greek, described him as having "a bit of a youthful fuzziness".
"I once saw Kwasi, when he was 19 years old, in all-brown tweed with a pipe in his mouth on a hot summer's day," he said.
'He trained well,' he continues, 'and was naturally gifted in Latin and Greek;
But his heart wasn't entirely with the classics.
In his final year he moved into history.
He took first place in the first part of the classics in 1995, and first in the second part of history in 1996.
“He is very friendly, very easy to harass, and I will have to do things like straighten his tie,” says Baroness Tina Stowell, who was appointed private secretary to Parliament in 2015 when she was leader of the House of Lords.
"But I've never seen him angry," she says.
In 2017, he was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Chancellor Philip Hammond.
In 2018, he secured his first cabinet position, in the Brexit department, and in 2019 he was rewarded for his support of Johnson, where he was appointed Secretary of State in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
He is someone who loves to gossip and has a penchant for sarcasm.
He became the first black Conservative MP to lead a government department in 2021. "He's obviously very smart and serious, and he's a fan of cricket," says Mark Fletcher, his former colleague.
At one point, he was in a relationship with the former Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, but they broke up, and he met Harriet Edwards, the lawyer with whom he married and had his daughter, Ida, last year.
• One of their friends says that “Kwasi and Terras make a great couple, they look a bit like Batman and his assistant Robin, and they support each other.” "They are both sociable, obsessive and friendly, and have strong views that go well with one another," says the friend.
• One of his contemporaries says: “He has an incredible skill in languages, and the teachers were astonished when they introduced the Italian language into the school curriculum." "The teachers were trying to teach the basics of Italian, but Quarting learned the whole language, and the teachers were struggling to keep up," he says.
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