The path Kwasi Kwarteng followed to 11 Downing Street is well worn. He studied at Eton College and the University of Cambridge – among the country’s most elite institutions – and has worked in the media and finance. “Some people would say that he’s had a conventional rise to the top, from fee-paying public school through an elite university to the Conservative Party … and then a top cabinet job,” Tim Bale, a Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London, told Al Jazeera.
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