Kent Alexander Ekeroth (born 11 September 1981) is a Swedish politician of the nationalist Sweden Democrats party. He is member of the Swedish parliament since 4 October 2010 (elected in the 2010 general election), representing the Stockholm County constituency. In the parliament he is a member of Committee on Justice and a deputy member of Committee on European Union Affairs.

Ekeroth has worked as an economist. He joined the Sweden Democrats in 2006. Since 2007 he is the party's secretary for international affairs.

In October 2006 Ekeroth was fired from his practical vocational training place at the Swedish embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, after the embassy had found out about his involvement with the Sweden Democrats. The embassy's actions were later criticised by the Swedish Chancellor of Justice, Göran Lambertz, who ruled that the firing was illegal and a breach of Swedish constitutional laws. The Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, who are responsible for all Swedish embassies abroad, also had to pay damages to Ekeroth.

Kent /ˈkɛnt/ is a county in South East England, and one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of Medway. Kent has a nominal border with France halfway through the Channel Tunnel. Maidstone is its county town and historically Rochester and Canterbury have been accorded city status, though only the latter still holds it.

Kent's location between London and the continental Europe has led to its being in the front line of several conflicts, including the Battle of Britain during World War II. East Kent was known as Hell Fire Corner during the conflict. England has relied on the county's ports to provide warships through much of the past 800 years; the Cinque Ports in the 12th–14th centuries and Chatham Dockyard in the 16th–20th centuries were of particular importance to the country's security. France can be seen clearly in fine weather from Folkestone, and the iconic White Cliffs of Dover.

Tobias Lennart Billström (born 27 December 1973 in Malmö) is a Swedish politician currently serving as Minister for Migration and Asylum Policy in the Swedish government. Billström, a member of the Moderate Party, has been a Member of Parliament since 2002 representing Malmö Municipality (seat 122). Due to Billström's duties as a minister, his seat in the parliament is currently occupied by his replacement, Staffan Appelros. Billström was a member of the Parliamentary Committee for Social Insurance, and has also been Moderate Party spokesperson for migration and integration. He is chairman for the Moderate Party in Malmö.

In addition to his Migration portfolio, Billström was appointed temporary Minister for Employment by Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, following Sven Otto Littorin's immediate resignation on 7 July 2010.

Billström has a Master's degree in history and political science from Lund University, and a Master's degree in Historical studies from University of Cambridge. Billström was appointed as Minister for Migration and Asylum Policy on 6 October 2006 in the centre-right cabinet led by Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt.

Eva Carin Beatrice Ask (born 20 April 1956) is a Swedish Moderate Party politician currently serving as Minister for Justice in the Swedish government.

Ask was born in Sveg, Jämtland County. She earned a high school diploma in Akron, Ohio, United States, in 1974, and finished her upper secondary school in Sweden in 1976. From 1978 to 1979 she studied international economics at Uppsala University but never graduated. Instead she began working for the Moderate Party and the Moderate Youth League, before being elected the first female chairman of the youth league in 1984. She was re-elected in 1986 and served a second term until 1988, when she was elected city commissioner with responsibility for schools (Swedish: skolborgarråd) in the city council of Stockholm.

Following the 1991 election, after which Carl Bildt became Prime Minister, Ask was appointed Minister for Schools and Adult Education in the new cabinet. Together with Per Unckel, Minister for Education, she took part in shaking the very foundation of the Swedish education system. Among other things, education vouchers were introduced which allowed children to choose independent schools without paying any fees.

Per Jimmie Åkesson (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈjɪmɪ ˈoːkɛ.ˈsɔn]; born 17 May 1979) is a Swedish politician. He is the current leader of the Sweden Democrats and a member of the Swedish parliament following the 2010 general election.

Jimmie Åkesson was born in Ivetofta, Sweden, but grew up in Sölvesborg, Blekinge County. He was a member of the Moderate Youth League, the youth wing of the Moderate Party, for a short while before he joined the old Sweden Democratic Youth Association (the youth wing of the Sweden Democrats) in 1995. The same year he also co-founded a local chapter of the Sweden Democratic Youth Association. In 1997 he was elected as a deputy member of the party board. The party's policies that he was most attracted to at first were its view on the European Union, and its policy on immigration.

In 1998, at the age of 19, Åkesson was elected to public office as a councilman in Sölvesborg Municipality. The same year, he also became deputy chairman of the newly established Sweden Democratic Youth (Sverigedemokratisk Ungdom), and later, from 2000 to 2005, was chairman of the organization. In 2005, he defeated party leader Mikael Jansson in a party election to become the party leader of the Sweden Democrats.