Ross John Kempsell, Baron Kempsell (born May 1992) is a British political adviser and

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Early life and education

Kempsell was born in May 1992. He was educated at

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and at

Christ's College, Cambridge Christ's College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college includes the Master, the Fellows of the College, and about 450 undergraduate and 250 graduate students. The c ...

, where he wrote for the weekly student newspaper '' Varsity''. He graduated from the University of Cambridge with a

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(BA) degree in 2013.

Career

He was formerly a journalist at the

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political website '' Guido Fawkes''. In 2019, Kempsell interviewed

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during his campaign for the leadership of the Conservative Party, in which Johnson declared that he liked to make models of buses to relax. He also worked as a journalist for

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and was a political editor for TalkRadio. He returned to ''Guido Fawkes'' in 2024 as a

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. Having been political director of the Conservative Party, he was appointed director of the

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in 2020. Following

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's unopposed selection as leader of the Conservative Party, Kempsell departed the Conservative Research Department in 2022.

House of Lords

He was nominated for a life peerage by

in the 2022 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours, and was created Baron Kempsell, ''of

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in the County of

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'', on 11 July 2023. Kempsell was introduced to the

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on 20 July, where he sits for the Conservative Party. He made his

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on 18 March 2024 in response to the Spring Budget 2024. He has sat on the

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since its creation in January 2024.

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