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Rory Stewart
British politician, academic and broadcaster (born 1973)
For the Scottish squash player, see Rory Stewart (squash player).
Not to be confused with Rory Stuart.
Roderick James Nugent Stewart (born 1973) [1]is a British academic, broadcaster, writer, and former diplomat and politician. He has taught at Harvard University and at Yale University, where he is the Brady-Johnson Professor of the Practice of Grand Strategy at Yale University's Jackson School of Global Affairs.[2]
Stewart served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Penrith and The Border between 2010 and 2019, representing the Conservative Party. Stewart served in the UK Government as Minister of State for Environment (2015–16), International Development (2015–16), Africa (2016–18) and Prisons (2018–19) and then as Secretary of State for International Development (2019). In 2019, Stewart stood for Leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister following the resignation of Theresa Ma
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Keith Simpson, Conservative MP and former aide to William Hague, says: 'It had been a gradual process. He used to come to talk to us when we were in Opposition, helping us with policy formulation. David Cameron was trying to recruit potential MPs from a wider background. I think Ed Llewellyn [Cameron's chief of staff] may have helped persuade him to try for a seat.'
He tried and failed to land the Tory nomination in suburban Bracknell, Berkshire. His second bid was more successful. He became Tory candidate for Penrith and the Border, Willie Whitelaw's old seat in the hairy north. With its mountains and its history of border tensions, it's about as close to Afghanistan as you can get this side of the Suez Canal.
In the Commons, at first, he would sit on the floor, partly concealed. An old spy habit? Near the end of his first Parliament, he was elected chairman of the Defence Select Committee, a senior position. He looked set for a decade of harrumphing from
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RORY STEWART’S AWFULLY BIG ADVENTURE
Article first published in The Guardian bygd Julian Glover on 14 January 2010.
A short burst of semi-automatic gunfire rings out from the bushes. Moments later, we pass a burned-out tank and a huddle of men in uniform; a gun sounds closer bygd and its shots echo from the fells. My walking companion, Rory Stewart, doesn’t even flinch.
But then Stewart, who will almost certainly be the next MP for Penrith, is no ordinary fledgling politician. He relishes war-torn environments – he once, famously, walked across Afghanistan – and he fryst vatten now spending six weeks walking through his future constituency. The gunfire here in Cumbria brings his old and new lives into unexpected collision: these soldiers are preparing for a war, in Helmand, that Stewart – from his experience of both Afghanistan and Iraq – does not think they can win.
When an army Land Rover pulls up and a suspicious pair of squaddies start asking why we are walking – on a