"You just get these empty, this feeling of kind of emptiness. You've got to remember that for a lot of people who are right at the top, they’ve been thinking about this for decades. They've been thinking about, you know, becoming an MP, getting into government, maybe getting into Cabinet, you know, all of that. They've been on this road, on this journey. And then once you're out, it's over. And so there's a kind of feeling of emptiness. I've seen it and you can see it on their faces sometimes. They're just completely bewildered."
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Kwasi Kwarteng
Akwasi Addo Alfred Kwarteng (born 26 May 1975) is a British Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Spelthorne in northern Surrey from May 2010 to the 2024 general election when he stood down. He was Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy from 2021 to 2022, and Chancellor of the Exchequer in the brief government of Liz Truss between September and October 2022.
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