Rory Stewart is a rare national treasure. I am not conservative, but I admire his honesty and his integrity is unequalled.

@patrickormerod3472

5 ай бұрын

Rory Stewart is a loathsome toad

@user-yf5iz9lf6x

4 ай бұрын

rory stewart isnt a conservative either, hes more of a centrist/lib dem

@popdop0074

4 ай бұрын

​@@user-yf5iz9lf6xYeah he's an actual classical liberal that leans into a lot of bridge buildibg between the left and right, even tho this is pointless lol

Rory is such a breath of fresh air, honesty, integrity and being truthful..

Very refreshing to see a politician who is a) Honest b) Intelligent c) Articulate d) Thoughtful e) Empathic. In today’s world those qualities would seemingly disqualify you as a politician. Which is both very sad, and dispiriting.

@simonchampion3220

6 ай бұрын

Broadly speaking you mean “tory mps”. So - certainly - his are qualities which would bar him from the tory party. Which they did.

@NGE0001

6 ай бұрын

Try asking him his views on Israel or other subjects he does not want to talk about

@simonchampion3220

6 ай бұрын

@@NGE0001what are your views??

@NGE0001

6 ай бұрын

my views are the same as alastair campbell@@simonchampion3220

@malcolmthompson2767

6 ай бұрын

@@NGE0001 And you (whatever your name is) would know so much more on the subject? So please enlighten us...

I wish to God Rory had become Prime Minister. An honest and decent man. So very rare in British politics.

@beammeup8458

6 ай бұрын

Rory is a sweet boy, whose walk across Afghanistan puts him at a different level from others, but is too nice. Politics is a dirty game …. As illustrated by the fat boy, Blair and others ….. until they break the mould, the British people will continue to be guverned by incompetent trash.

@harryturner9304

6 ай бұрын

Hence why he wouldn't have a chance. These values, for most, aren't understood in the UK.

@danielkarmy4893

5 ай бұрын

@@harryturner9304 And that's in our society as a whole, regardless of the political arena. Our politics reflect our society; people are self-serving, they'll be nefarious if it means they get the upper hand or they get ahead (and there's a general acceptance that, as long as it does get you ahead, that's OK), people become intensely uncomfortable if others are honest around them or disagree with the majority...

@anthonyyoung9580

5 ай бұрын

Thank goodness he didn't become PM. Nothing principled about him at all. Was one of he MP's who desperately tried to thwart the result of the biggest refendum ever held in the UK. Who would want to go to an evening with him.

@jackdoyle7453

5 ай бұрын

A scumbag etonian tory? You could have had an honest and decent man as PM you should of voted for Corbyn

I would never vote conservative but I would vote for Rory in a heartbeat.

@StratsRUs

6 ай бұрын

He's _doing well_ Likes Theresa's Hostile Environment and Windrush. " Genuinely Honourable". Voting Record of Rory ?

@beammeup8458

6 ай бұрын

Better not vote : there are only incompetents

@richardbrown6163

6 ай бұрын

That makes sense. He's not a Conservative

@felicityhenderson6290

4 ай бұрын

Me too

@avacyn2000

20 күн бұрын

He’s a classical liberal, not a conservative.

"He's not Caesar, is he?" is the coldest take down of Boris Johnson I've ever heard.

@carolineduncan6329

6 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😊

@Hascienda27

6 ай бұрын

Think he really saw Covid as his chance to prove his Churchill complex and failed pathetically

@sunseeker9581

6 ай бұрын

Ever?

@Robbscarey

5 ай бұрын

it just encapsulates it all@@sunseeker9581

@andrewtucker94

2 ай бұрын

He's a very naughty boy

Totally agree with his advice to Keir Starmer. Stand for what he believes in rather than what the polls are telling him.

@beammeup8458

6 ай бұрын

Starmer is a spineless nothing, surrounded by viciously incompetent people

@charlesreid1311

5 ай бұрын

?What does Starmer believe in ?

@jackdoyle7453

5 ай бұрын

Because that worked so well for Corbyn. Also Starmer would have to believe in something first.

If we don’t recognise and support MPs like Rory, who actually engage with facts we can’t move on and will never fix anything.

@sunseeker9581

6 ай бұрын

Hes a Theresa May supporter. Not sure id ever get on board with that.

@gedog77

6 ай бұрын

@@sunseeker9581 have you heard why he was supportive of her? It was very specifically her seriousness and intent. She took the job as seriously as you’d want her to. In contrast to Bozo and Dave who really didn’t care.

@sunseeker9581

6 ай бұрын

​​​​@@gedog77she was utterly hopeless. She gave tax cuts to the rich. She gutted the police. She chased a terrible Brexit deal and gutted our public services. To say she was better than Cameron or Major is debateable to say the least Ill give Rory credit for his views on foreign policy though. Id pick him instead of Cameron for that role

@bw1376

6 ай бұрын

@@gedog77 Nobody in Westminster care. They're not there to benefit the country, they are there to serve their globalist paymasters.

@jackdoyle7453

5 ай бұрын

Indeed if only everyone had voted for Corbyn

Rory is a thoughtful decent and intelligent guy, always worth listening too, Oh the bygone days when the Tory party leadership where made up of decent, rational and competent people, rather than the headbangers that inhabit it today

@jackdoyle7453

5 ай бұрын

begone as in when? the privileged elite that forced their ideologies onto the country?

A rare individual. Ex politician but he comes with a real sense of reality and integrity. Obviously not going to make a prime minister any time soon. Sadly.

@Cotswolds1913

6 ай бұрын

Seems like kind of a useful idiot if you ask me, albeit perhaps with more integrity than the typical.

@tomharrison1849

6 ай бұрын

One born every minute.

I'll boringly keep on saying it till they carry me out feet first - Rory Stewart is the best PM Britain never had. And what an immense humility in those final words of his - he was "part of the problem" whilst in government - contrast that with Braverman's recent self-congatulatory and ad hominem insulting resignation letter.

@chrisp4170

6 ай бұрын

Ken Clarke and Willie Whitelaw were both decent and capable politicians who also warrant consideration.

@1258-Eckhart

6 ай бұрын

Ken Clarke I'll give you, Whitelaw was too subservient to Thatcher and would have spent his time in office trying to imitate her. @@chrisp4170

@johnchristmas7522

6 ай бұрын

That just shows the calibre of those around him in the party=total waste of space ALL of them. How on Earth did the UK end up with this shower of s... Probably came from a privatised river.

@iainmclaren964

6 ай бұрын

Going back 30 years, John Smith. Died too soon.

@bw1376

6 ай бұрын

@@chrisp4170 Ken Clarke? Not sure what drugs you're on but please do share.

I have voted Conservative consistently for 50 years. NEVER AGAIN! .....but if Rory was leader...maybe

@JFW5358

6 ай бұрын

Me likewise.

@lighting7508

6 ай бұрын

what a suprising profile picture for a lifelong tory...

@Pippins666

6 ай бұрын

@@lighting7508 the last time a hard right Tory was leader, Michael Howard, I voted Monster Raving Loony Party. Mock if you wish, but David Sutch was a man of integrity ( no wonder he never got elected). I'm not a Tory, I'm a floating voter. Without floating voters there is no democracy, only the dictatorship of the majority. My boat floats just right of centre, or occasionally just left of centre. NEVER hard right or hard left. And my avatar reflects my views...Britain in the EU, support for Ukraine and Palestine

I love Rory, so down to earth. He’s great on his The Rest is Politics podcast with Alistair Campbell.

@dogsenseforu301

6 ай бұрын

WISH he'd distance himself from '45 minutes' Campbell claim that resulted in killing 1M, maiming more, destabilising Middle East... Albeit the invasion wasn't merely destructive ie it did create something, namely ISIS! And Campbell STILL defends this position.

@jackdoyle7453

5 ай бұрын

You mean the one with the too lying scumbags?

One of the things I admire most in a person, is the ability to admit to their own mistakes and have the courage and integrity to consider important matters in a reflective and open-minded way. The more power and influence a person has, the more important that quality should be, but ironically, the rarer it seems to be. Rory Stewart has that quality in spades. And in addition he has energy, intellect, experience , wisdom and is relatable. Our country needs him and it’s a shame there are not more politicians like him.

@philipmulville8218

5 ай бұрын

I agree. Well said.

I think Rory was about to say Boris is a complete ‘charlatan’. Emperor Boris the ‘prancing elephant’. Wonderful!

@Hascienda27

6 ай бұрын

Not the only ‘C Word’ we can compare Bozo with

Anti-Tory but I like Rory Stewart, sensible Centre Ground politician with real skill

Theresa May only said one thing that I unreservedly agree with: her description of the Tory Party as "The Nasty. Party."

@sunseeker9581

6 ай бұрын

Well said. Some common sense at last

@johnnotrealname8168

5 ай бұрын

It is ruthless to it's leader. That is good.

I'd vote for this guy

I'm hoping that Fane Productions decides to put up a video of the 2nd part of this interview where Rory Stewart talks about what his economic policies would have been and would be. THAT is the really interesting part so far as I'm concerned.

Couldn’t agree more about how the romans would have viewed Johnson

@simeonlewis4915

6 ай бұрын

I mostly agree, figures like Cicero would have thought of him as a disgrace but actually Caesar was a populist himself who tore down many of Rome's republican traditions so in that sense they are quite alike (although caesar was at least competent)

@samworrall6789

6 ай бұрын

@@simeonlewis4915 Wholeheartedly agree. I guess we can say then that republican Romans would have despised the man

One of the only Tory politicians I respect. Although I also respected Teresa May for the reasons he says

@sunseeker9581

6 ай бұрын

Were you asleep through Brexit?

@adesanyasnipple5338

6 ай бұрын

@@sunseeker9581agree and respect are different things. Have you seen what we have had since?

I love how much he despises Johnson. It should be a litmus test of anyone in public life. Anyone who has a shred of admiration for Johnson should be ostracized.

@redrev674

6 ай бұрын

Why?

@stevenperren1678

6 ай бұрын

@@redrev674because having the slightest admiration for Johnson reveals a complete absence of judgement. It has long been obvious to anyone that Johnson is lower than dog shit.

@MrTonyHeath

4 ай бұрын

did you mean castrated?

@redrev674

4 ай бұрын

@@MrTonyHeath since you have nothing between your legs or ears for that matter it won’t affect you!

Imagine he’s won the leadership instead of Johnson, would have been fantastic

@corvus1238

6 ай бұрын

Yes, just imagine, he would have made a much better job of pulling the wool over your eyes and the country would still be in the state it is in. For God sake, HE'S A TORY. His only motivation is to make himself and his public school chums richer. Look at his voting record from when he was in office and open your eyes. WAKEY WAKEY!

@TheValeyard92

6 ай бұрын

It would have been much better. Fantastic is probably a stretch.

@chrispalmer7893

6 ай бұрын

@@TheValeyard92 With you on this - the kind of surgery the Tory Party needs to return to sanity and reason is tricky and pretty much impossible to do whilst in office.

@spamme9021

6 ай бұрын

He’s a Tory. Check out his voting record. It would have been almost exactly the same. The clue is in the name...TORY

@sphinx1017

6 ай бұрын

Sadly the electorate want simple slogans repeated by a morally vacant 'fun guy.' They don't warm to intelligence and integrity.

Rory is brilliant. Shame he’s not a right wing labour MP.

@albedo0point39

6 ай бұрын

He should be. He really isn’t a Tory.

@garyambrosini1427

6 ай бұрын

He's just another blairite

@jackdoyle7453

5 ай бұрын

why? he's an etonian scumbag? we need a more social diverse labour party

@yellowletters9465

Ай бұрын

​@@garyambrosini1427 his views on Iraq make him anything but a Blairite.

The moment the Tory-MP's dropped Rory Stewart as Tory leader... it was downhill from there.

@TheAwesomeGingerGuy

6 ай бұрын

Stewart was never Tory leader.

@Michiel_de_Jong

6 ай бұрын

@@TheAwesomeGingerGuy | He was on the short list to replace Ms May... Tory MP's voted Rory from that short list to elect Boris the Buffoon.

@jtaylor8606

6 ай бұрын

It hasn't been uphill since they came to power tbh

@TheValeyard92

6 ай бұрын

It was downhill since 2010, and steeply downhill since 2016. The ousting of Stewart and all of the other semi-decent Tories from the party is just another symptom of the same downward slide.

@Elitist20

6 ай бұрын

@@TheValeyard92 A purge.

Boris might not be Achilles, but he is a heel 🙃.

@Pippins666

6 ай бұрын

No, just a little prick

@stephenreeds3632

6 ай бұрын

He was.. he thinks that he's invulnerable.

I met and spoke to David Cameron on a work visit years ago when he was leader of the opposition (before he was PM). My overriding impression of him was that he was shiny and stupid, nothing has changed since.

@MookMineola

5 ай бұрын

Cameron : spineless with a total lack of initiative .

@cehlattin

4 ай бұрын

A friend of mine, who was a Borough Councillor, met Cameron at a hustings event in 2005 and wouldn't shake his hand. He didn't like him or trust him. David Davis he met, liked, and found him interested in issues that affected the fishing industry in Whitby.

Rory is not pretentious, Johnson is.

A great to and fro from two deep thinkers, and thankfully we can hear their measured analysis. The Rest is Politics is my current favourite podcast, note to self - must hunt out more from Tom Holland.

@MrAlexwhiteside

6 ай бұрын

The Rest is History with Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook is a brilliant podcast. Highly recommend.

@jackdoyle7453

5 ай бұрын

oh dear really you think these people are "deep" I can only imagine what incredibly shallow pond you are observing them from.

Rory Stewart isn't cut out for political life, he's burdened with honesty, decency, and integrity

@ronaldsimpson8890

4 ай бұрын

Just like Jeremy Corbyn then, but Stewasr supported all of Thatchers policies, which are the reason energy prices have gone through the roof.

It would be so lovely if you put on the full event!

Well done Rory.

It's great that he complimented Teresa May, that he saw her as a real person and appreciated this rare trait nowadays. It's been past due. I've hoped more and more people would do that, especially after those who have followed her.

Will we ever get this in its entirety ?

Excellent discussion, enlightening.

I’m glad to hear him talk positively about Theresa May. I thought she was a genuinely good person who cared, who was poorly treated by her own party, until she felt she had to leave. I have always felt desperately sorry for her.

@bigpants6121

6 ай бұрын

appalling reaction to Grenfell and 20k police were shown the door.

@lenabo9929

6 ай бұрын

She did much wrong. But was one of the better PM we have had this century. Brexit would kill many with no supper majority. I blame ardent remainers that refused to accept we were leaving the EU. If they had worked with her there would likley of not been a major jump to the right. 😊

Rory would have been a smart choice for prime minister and I still think there is time. That’s it he wants to go down that road. He’s erudite, intelligent, passionate and relatable. I wish more politicians were like him. x

@jackdoyle7453

5 ай бұрын

You mean like Jeremy Corbyn?

Im never going to vote tory but if Rory had been leader i would have been tempted. Why are there not people like him in cabinet today?

I know it's not important in the grand scheme of things, but I wish people would stop banging on about Johnson's knowledge of "the classics". The ability to pull out the occasional quote (and never the obscure quotes, always the easy quotes that are pretty well-known; you don't have to have read, much less understood, any of the texts he ever references to pull out the little nuggets he uses to feign familiarity) is a long way short of "being steeped in the classics". We saw, time and again, him use appropriate-sounding references that actually demonstrated his lack of awareness of the context and source of those references. We see the same with Jacob Rees-Mogg. It's a minor point, except that it's a big part of how these frauds have fooled large numbers of people into thinking they are intelligent.

@Pippins666

6 ай бұрын

Bullshit baffles brains

@tomharrison1849

6 ай бұрын

Boris got a 2:1 from Oxford in classics and was a fairly good classicist. Some of his quotations are not widely known.

@chrispalmer7893

6 ай бұрын

@@tomharrison1849 I’ve no doubt he bullshitted his way to his degree in much the same way as he has everything else (full disclosure, I did something similar for my own degree so I know this to be possible). His use of classical quotation frequently demonstrates an ignorance of the context (quoting Kipling whilst in Myanmar was the most instant example, but is by no means an isolated example).

@Pippins666

6 ай бұрын

@@tomharrison1849 The Covid enquiry is unearthing some of his more memorable quotations, which can be summed up as "I've got the top job now so I don't give a flying f**k what happens to the country and its inhabitants" - and the same goes for the bunch of charlatans he selected for his cabinet

@tomharrison1849

6 ай бұрын

@@chrispalmer7893 The last I heard, Kipling was not a Greek or Latin author. If you knew the actual facts about Johnson, he missed a first by only a little and was devastated. He studied Classics at Eton as a scholar before getting a place at Oxford. Everything he learnt at Eton already gave him a good classical education? What did you study and where?

Great interview, but frustrating at the start how Tom is unwilling to acknowledge Rory’s sincere respect and admiration for Theresa May

He should be back in politics asap.

@omiethamsia9009

6 ай бұрын

another tory in parliament is quite literally the last thing we need. look at the state of the country.

@dorgly8951

6 ай бұрын

@@omiethamsia9009feel like you’ve missed Rory’s point entirely.

@omiethamsia9009

6 ай бұрын

@@dorgly8951 how so?

@avacyn2000

20 күн бұрын

@@omiethamsia9009He’s not even a conservative. He’s a centrist. Then again, I guess Wokeism would equivocate Classical Liberalism with Conservatism.

@omiethamsia9009

20 күн бұрын

@@avacyn2000 he not only self describes as a tory, but has a public voting record. I recommend you check it out. nothing centrist about it.

I could listen to Rory talk all day and then wake up and do the same again

I'm not a Conservative and never will be but Rory is decent man with principles ,wish he was still an MP ,first time I've ever said that about a tory

Rory Stewart is that rare-as-gold thing these days. A considerate, respectful and genuinely likeable Conservative.

i have never voted Tory ,and never will. But this is the only politician i will vote for. Dissappointed that he wont stand for mayor of London.

Cameron once said on camera that he thought Boris Johnson would make a good Prime Minister.

@Hascienda27

6 ай бұрын

David Cameron probably thought he was A good PM

@MookMineola

5 ай бұрын

It would seem then that Cameron was asleep the entire time Johnson was mayor of London .

@bigblue6917

5 ай бұрын

@@MookMineola And longer than that. When Michael Howard was leader of the conservatives he had to fire Johnson for lying to him. And before that The Times newspaper fired Johnson for lying to The Times readership. So it wasn't that people didn't know what he was like.

Just beginning to get interesting at the end!

This is so British. Love it

A decent Tory. A rare thing.

Talks alot of common sense 👏👏

He’s great I wish he was my mp also he talks common sense

It's a genuinely terrible reality of British politics that it was possible to replace Theresa May, someone who by any objective or sane metric was an awful Prime Minister and responsible for many catastrophic decisions, with a succession of people who were so bad that she seems almost reasonable in retrospect. Windrush, Grenfell, and the headling rush into a form of Brexit that went way beyond what even the most rabid of leavers was promoting during the referendum campaign, all of these are more than enough to consider her legacy to be one of abject failure (we should probably add in her giving us a very rare example of an election campaign that made a decisive difference to the outcome, all be it a difference that I personally support - Tories losing seats - and was presumably the reverse of her intentions).

@bigpants6121

6 ай бұрын

20k police went under her watch?

@chrispalmer7893

6 ай бұрын

@@bigpants6121 An exhaustive list of her record would be terrifying - we haven’t even mentioned the stormtrooper vans she had patrolling the streets to try and scare immigrants…

@joancooley1387

5 ай бұрын

A bloke so bitter . Yeah course he speaks well of May. ButNot as well as he tries to Promote himself.

@johnnotrealname8168

5 ай бұрын

@@chrispalmer7893 Illegal aliens? Who cares if they are scared? It was a stupid policy because it did nothing and took on people who had a legal right to be here.

@TheLittleShits

5 ай бұрын

A lot of noise for such a pointless comment

I love Rory❤

One unusual quirk of British politics is ... if you ask most people in the UK what does the workd British or the work Tory mean? Usually no idea! Anyway Tory - and the Irish obviously knew them well: As a political term, Tory was an insult (derived from the Middle Irish word tóraidhe, modern Irish tóraí, meaning "outlaw", "robber", from the Irish word tóir, meaning "pursuit" since outlaws were "pursued men")[9][10] that entered English politics during the Exclusion Bill crisis of 1678-1681.

prancing elefant...love it

I can understand the anger towards Johnson.

As a life long Labour voter , i have very little time for most Conservatives any person who is informed about politics does realise that the tories are not on the side of workers or the poor . However Rory Stewart is someone with integrity and ethics a progressive thinker you get the impression he cares about everyone rare qualities in a tory . There must be many of them who now regret not electing him as there Leader

The ONLY Conservative PM in my lifetime that made a good impression was Harold McMillan, extremely Old school. The fact he was a butt of so many jokes and was ridiculed, as politicians are, but he told one of his ministers bluntly who had said he would put a stop to a TV programme, he sent a cursory note saying NO YOU WONT! Also there have been some intelligent and interesting Conservative ministers as well. I admire principle, many Conservatives lack that in my experience.

@johnstirling6597

5 ай бұрын

I tend to think that conservatives have become somewhat enamoured of the "disruption innovation" of the digital new world over the last 25 years. They (the new "conservatives") think they can apply the same disruption to the whole of society, break it down and make it better, shiner, newer in the image they want................ sounds a bit maniacal/biblical. 😁😁

@johnnotrealname8168

5 ай бұрын

The last great Prime-Minister was Sir Alec Douglas-Home.

@MrTonyHeath

4 ай бұрын

@@johnnotrealname8168 Great? Surely you jest.

@MrTonyHeath

4 ай бұрын

McMillan's greatest attribute was that he wasn't Eden.

@johnnotrealname8168

4 ай бұрын

@@MrTonyHeath Nay!

Where is the rest of the interview?

Caesar was a populist. Caesar was a radical reformer. Caesar completely ignored the Roman constitution (when his radical land reform, though very necessary, wasn’t passing the senate he just ignored it and put it to public vote. In effect cutting the senate out of the legislative role). He was eventually publically condemned an enemy to the republic when he refused to step down as governor of his provinces by the senate and marched his armies against the republic and the capital, making himself dictator for life. Boris is no Caesar, but I am not sure Caesar should be a role model to the conservatives.

Where can I watch the full EP?

The only Tory I would ever vote for

Intelligent people of all political persuasions seem to be drawn towards Rory Stewart, which suggests to me that many people value integrity, intelligence, compassion and experience regardless of party colour. If only political parties and the media cottoned onto this fact we might collectively be in a better position.

I think the interviewer fails to see the difference between Rory and Johnson. Rory is genuinely an intellectual, a distinguished professor sort, while Johnson is a dim student who passed his exams by sneaking text books into the exam room. People like Rory are driven by facts, genuine concern for humanity, but because they are genuine, those whom they are supposed to save reject them, preferring megalomaniacs like Johnson. Quite interesting. I look at politicians as the thermometer that measures peoples temperature. If the reading is high, you don't blame the thermometer. It is the medium , in this case the people, which gives the thermometer its reading. To put it in another way, Johnson is the sum total of the small megalomania in voters.

Where is the rest of this?

What an incredibly intelligent and intelligent man Rory is Wish he was the PM

The best for me - The Iron Lady - Margaret Thatcher. Next to her David Cameron Then Winston Churchill I dont know of many others before that.

Is the 'cheat' the choice of opponents in order to boost HN's own rating? Has the real point of the accusation been missed??

Will the full interview be available somehwere?

@agesilaustr

6 ай бұрын

My search bar hasn't returned anything, that's why I'm asking. And thank you, peace be with you too @@soulsaver369

Achilles was throwing a massive sulk for most of the Iliad, and so was Agamemnon. Over entitled babies. Maybe the description wasn’t so far off😊

We need the likes of him back into the Conservatives instead of the bunch of populists far right Brexiteers that are running the Conservative party now

where can I watch the full video?

Should have ranked chancellors in addition to PM's

Rory Stewart should join the Green Party - the only party that can rise above petty establishment party politics and produce a manifesto that addresses the national and international problems that does not pander to financial multinational corporate interests

I wonder who is ranking him,prat

Rory's an agreeable and likeable man with some perceptive critique on Tory leader's characters and performance. However Rory's political principles are too much over focussing on squeaky clean personal conduct and never offending 'polite society'. (Where's the evidence of Rory ever going out on a limb to stand by divisive truths which large sections of the public don't want to hear/take responsibility for?). Hard to disagree with Rory about Boris Johnson effectively being crooked -not saying that is a desirable or even necessary trait at all. However, whatever your view (and I was a Remain voter), also hard to see how Rory himself as PM would ever have got us out of the Brexit impasse... Whatever your politics, you have to see that leadership is not just about charitably assuming moral equivalence to both sides, diplomatically straddling the fence, polishing your halo ..and in reality, being pushed around by others, never getting anything done. Rory, for all his qualities as an able, sincere, disciplined and kind human being, too much treads on eggshells not to offend the often overlapping naive delusions of swathes of voters, across the political spectrum. Easy for any of us to be critics, but in reality, Rory's own over sensitive approach would never get anything done if he were PM.

Not sure how he could back May's hard Brexit. She did not produce a soft Brexit at all. She took us out of Single Market and Customs Union. All 4 have been a disaster for UK economy.

3:31 he’s totally right on this point. Cameron in 2010 should have pulled out.

@stephenreeds3632

6 ай бұрын

And Nick Clegg should not have got into bed with the Tories.

I may be wrong, but I think both John Major and Rory Stewart are not big fans of Boris Johnson.

Such a good egg.

Fun to watch. If he could be prime minister, I would vote conservative

Interesting, although his answer to 'would it have been better if labour had won' absolutely reeked of hindsight bias. yeah...we all know that NOW, but no one did THEN

Rory seems to have forgotten about how horrible Teresa May was re the wind rush scandal.

I also wish he would return to politics…… I’m not a conservative voter but a man of that quality transcends politics…. a statesman is what we need….. I do wonder why he does not return and looking and listening to him I get a strong feeling that he may not be tough enough…..OK he can walk across deserts but I sense emotional frailty. Hope I am wrong

@Wob-rt1sc

6 ай бұрын

He’s said he would jump at the chance of foreign secretary-which he’s more than adequately experienced for-but a man of his academic and diplomatic calibre can earn a nice crust without the hassle of politics I guess.

Interviewer seems to have high regard for Eton : that sausage machine preserving the class system and producing a never ending stream of self entitled incompetents.

Everyone ❤s Rory.

Wish the chair would allow him to speak more

Rank the current cabinet …most would struggle to score zero.

Rory. Would you ever consider running as leader of a party in the future, as I would seriously consider voting for you as my PM

@Wob-rt1sc

6 ай бұрын

You should listen to his podcast The Rest Is Politics - Alastair Campbell often puts him on the spot about returning to politics. He’d be an amazing Foreign Secretary

Rory was probably the best option in the conservative race when he ran to be leader. But to be fair, most of what he's says here is with 20/20 hindsight.

@Wob-rt1sc

6 ай бұрын

I just don’t think he was well known enough, or had the personality to outshine Johnson at the time, to get the parties backing.

I emigrated to UK from Eastern Europe. For me the Conservative Party was the party of Thatcher and I imagined I will vote for it when I become a citizen. I am a citizen now and I cannot vote conservative cos it is the party of Johnson and Sunak, people who talk a lot and do nothing, at least nothing that could be described as conservative. My problem: I have nobody to vote for. I don't see the present-day Thatcher.

Bojo was not Achilles ,but he was a heel

He doesn’t fight for the white English

Would he be like this if he was in government though

He would have been Commodus.

He is so right about Johnson: a liar, a cheat, someone who disrespected the rule of law etc. How did anyone ever fall for Johnson's chicanery?

Interesting his views on Iraq considering his friendship with Alistair Campbell

Two of the most self satisfied men in the UK.

@aboriginesdream

6 ай бұрын

And your forensic analysis of the points made is?

How could this guy be Tory leader/Prime Minister? He's English.

Failed with WINDRUSH !!!