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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 May. Since 2022, Stewart has co-hosted The Rest Is Politics podcast with Alastair Campbell, the inaugural Prime Minister's Official Spokesperson under Tony Blair.
Born in Hong Kong, Stewart was educated at the Dragon School, Eton College, and the University of Oxford as an undergraduate student of
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RORY STEWART’S AWFULLY BIG ADVENTURE
Article first published in The Guardian by 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 by 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 is 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 public road – through the middle of Operation Green Enforcer, Stewart does not mention his time in Kabul. Nor does he explain that he has just become the local Conservative parliamentary candidate. The soldiers wouldn’t believe him if he did. With an old North Face down jacket, MacPac ruc