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In September 2018, incumbent PM Stefan Löfven was ousted. Kristersson expressed hope of becoming the next PM.

Anna Kinberg Batra resigned as leader of the Moderate Party on 25 August 2017, after internal criticism. Kristersson publicly decided to run for leadership on 1 September 2017 and was elected on 1 October 2017. The party saw a sharp increase in support in the polls, compared to the record low numbers under his predecessor Batra. He has a harsher stance against immigration than his predecessors.

On 11 December 2014, he was appointed Shadow Finance Minister of the Moderate Party and economic policy spokesperson. On 1 September 2017, Kristersson announced he was running for the party leadership of the Moderate Party after Anna Kinberg Batra stepped down.

On 5 October 2010, Fredrik Reinfeldt appointed Kristersson to become Minister of Social Security, a position he held for four years. After the 2014 election the Reinfeldt cabinet resigned, Kristersson was however elected as Member of the Riksdag (MP) again, this time for Södermanland County. Following Reinfeldt's resignation as party leader, Anna Kinberg Batra appointed him as Shadow Finance Minister.

He returned to active politics in 2002 as Commissioner (Mayor) for Finance in Strängnäs and served there until 2006. In 2006, he was appointed Vice Mayor (Socialborgarråd) in Stockholm responsible for the social welfare and labour division. Kristersson was also asked by Fredrik Reinfeldt to lead the committee responsible for developing a new family policy for the party. He immediately caused controversy by suggesting that fathers must take a month of paternity leave for the family to receive all benefits. This was clearly in conflict with traditional Moderate Party policy, which has centred on individual choice.

Kristersson left his parliamentary seat in April 2000, feeling that the new party leader Bo Lundgren declined his services. Kristersson worked for two years in the private sector, mainly as communications director and VP for the internet consultancy Adcore, a dotcom crash casualty.

In 1992, Kristresson was challenged as chairman of MUF by Fredrik Reinfeldt. The congress was preceded by considerable ideological divisions between Libertarians and Conservatives. All this erupted at the congress in Lycksele, which came to be known as the Battle of Lycksele. Kristersson, the Libertarian alternative, lost narrowly. It is said that his loss caused his withdrawal from front-line politics and he was subsequently known as part of "Lost Generation" of the Moderate Party. From 1995 to 1998, Kristersson was chief of marketing at Timbro.

In connection with the general election of 1985, he was employed as a campaigner at MUF in Sörmland. On 26 November 1988, he rose to become new Chairman of MUF succeeding Beatrice Ask. In 1991, the centre-right Bildt Cabinet took power and Kristersson became a Member of the Riksdag (MP). He served in the Social Security Committee. He soon become a vocal critic of the government's crisis agreement with Social Democrats. At the time, Kristersson developed a friendship with the former party leader, Gösta Bohman, who in some respects also supported his criticism of the Bildt Cabinet.

Ulf Christersson was born on December 29, 1963 in Lund, Skåne län, Sweden.

Ulf Kristersson was born in Lund, Skåne, to Lars Kristersson (1938–2015) and Karin Kristersson. The family moved to Torshälla outside Eskilstuna five years later. In his youth Ulf Kristersson was a troupe gymnast. Kristersson finished secondary school at S:t Eskils gymnasium in Eskilstuna and completed a degree in economics at Uppsala University.