Kwasi Kwarteng has been sacked as chancellor just weeks into the job. Our political correspondent AliFortescue takes a look at his career and brief stint at chancellor.
There are multiple reports of him clashing with the Treasury - he vocally backed Owen Paterson during the lobbying scandal that engulfed the former MP, and he has come in for criticism for defending visiting foreign autocratic regimes, saying it was better than"shouting from the sidelines".
But his close friendship with Ms Truss - with the pair even becoming neighbours on the same street in Greenwich - secured him a spot not only in the Treasury, but in history as the first black chancellor of the UK.Mr Kwarteng was born in 1975 in Waltham Forest, east London to Alfred and Charlotte, who had emigrated from Ghana to the UK as students in the 1960s and became an economist and barrister respectively.
After Cambridge, he won another scholarship to Harvard University then returned to Cambridge to study for a PhD in economic history.His first career was as a journalist, writing columns for the Daily Telegraph, before he headed to the City where he worked as a financial analyst for big companies such as JP Morgan.
In 2010, he secured a comfortable 22,000 majority in Spelthorne, Surrey, and had been on the rise since.
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