Ross Kempsell, Baron Kempsell

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The Lord Kempsell
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
11 July 2023
Life peerage
Personal details
Born
Ross John Kempsell

(1992-05-08) 8 May 1992 (age 31)
NationalityBritish
Political party Conservative
Education The John Henry Newman School, Stevenage
Alma mater Christ's College, Cambridge
Occupation Special adviser

Ross John Kempsell, Baron Kempsell (born 8 May 1992), [1] [2] is a British political adviser and life peer. He was Political Director of the Conservative Party and Director of the Conservative Research Department. [3] He was nominated for a life peerage by Boris Johnson in the 2022 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours, [4] [5] and was created Baron Kempsell, of Letchworth in the County of Hertfordshire , on 11 July 2023. [6] He was introduced to the House of Lords on 20 July, [7] where he sits for the Conservative Party. [8]

Kempsell was educated at The John Henry Newman School in Stevenage and at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he wrote for the weekly student newspaper Varsity . [9] He was formerly a journalist at the political website Guido Fawkes . In 2019, Kempsell interviewed Boris Johnson during his campaign for the leadership of the Conservative Party, in which Johnson declared that he liked to make models of buses to relax. [10] He also worked as a journalist for Times Radio [11] and was a political editor for TalkRadio. [12]

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