Rory Stewart: “We’re Living in a World of Fairy Tales”

Rory Stewart is a British academic, broadcaster, and former
diplomat and politician. He served as a Conservative Member of
Parliament for Penrith and The Border from 2010 to 2019 and was a
junior minister in four government departments from 2015 to 2019,
holding the posts of Minister for the Environment, Minister of
State for International Development, Minister of State for Africa,
and Minister of State for Prisons. He ultimately joined the Cabinet
and National Security Council as Secretary of State for
International Development. He resigned from the Conservative Party
in October 2019. His memoir Politics on the Edge (published in the
US as How Not to Be a Politician) was a best-seller. In March 2022,
Stewart and Alastair Campbell launched The Rest Is Politics
podcast, which tops politics podcast ratings in the UK most weeks.
Rory’s memoir: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1529922860/ The Rest is
Politics on Spotify:
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