He is kinder about Theresa May. After the Brexit vote and Cameron’s resignation, May made Stewart development minister, followed by prisons, and then promoted him to cabinet as secretary of state for international development. Unusually for a front-rank politician, she had a “private personality”. Stewart supported her EU withdrawal agreement, as hardline Brexiters plotted her overthrow, and the party lurched into magical thinking. Politics, he came to think, was a “rebarbative profession”... He developed migraines and kept going by taking painkillers A memoir told through the stories of Grant’s mother, sister, uncle and others. It also covers his short-lived medical career and time at the BBC.

BBC One – Have I Got News for You, Series 58, Episode 6". bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 18 April 2021 . Retrieved 12 March 2021. A woman chases her double across Europe, in an investigation into fraying identity from the author of The Man Who Saw Everything.

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Review into regulation and enforcement in waste sector launches". GOV.UK. 17 July 2015. Archived from the original on 23 July 2019 . Retrieved 22 September 2020. After spending six weeks on a ventilator during a bout of Covid-19, the former children’s laureate reflects on this and other episodes of suffering and recovery. From a trench in the Atlantic to alien intervention, inner worlds to outer space, fiction full of discovery and wonder. Scottish Arts Council – Book Awards 2005". www.scottisharts.org.uk. Archived from the original on 7 March 2018 . Retrieved 6 March 2018. Rory Stewart MP | Parliamentary Candidate Declarations of Interests – April 2010". RoryStewart.co.uk. 23 April 2010. Archived from the original on 21 April 2013 . Retrieved 22 September 2020.

He has also written about theory and practice of travel writings in prefaces to Wilfred Thesiger's Arabian Sands, [39] Charles Doughty's Arabia Deserta, [40] and Robert Byron's The Road to Oxiana. [41] Writing on politics and international affairs [ edit ] Stewart also hosted the BBC Radio 4 Podcast The Long History Of Argument where he discussed the history of debates. [54] Academic, nonprofit, and advisory work [ edit ] Non-profit work [ edit ] Full results of the Conservative leadership election – round 1". The Guardian. 13 June 2019. Archived from the original on 7 June 2020 . Retrieved 13 June 2019.

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Mikhailova, Anna (4 September 2019). "Boris Johnson to strip 21 Tory MPs of the Tory whip in parliamentary bloodbath". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 5 September 2019 . Retrieved 16 April 2020.The beginning of a new fantasy series for 8-12, in which children travel to a magical archipelago filled with mythical creatures. Rory Stewart is the 33rd Lakeland Book of the Year Winner for 'The Marches' ". www.jamescropper.com. Archived from the original on 7 April 2020 . Retrieved 7 April 2020. The follow-up to her prize-winning debut The Manningtree Witches is a dark story of “insatiable hunger” set in revolutionary France. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Parker, Ian (8 November 2010). "Paths of Glory". Archived from the original on 5 February 2018 . Retrieved 5 March 2018– via www.newyorker.com. The first novel in a decade from the acclaimed Irish writer focuses on the drama of new motherhood.

In May 2014, Stewart was elected by MPs from all parties as chairman of the Defence Select Committee. He was the youngest chair of a select committee in parliamentary history, as well as the first MP of the 2010 intake to be elected to chair a committee. [102] [103] [104] In this capacity, Stewart argued strongly for a more vigorous response to Russian aggression in Ukraine. [105] The committee also argued that Britain's commitments to Iraq and Syria were "strikingly modest" and that more should be done. [106] Under Stewart's chairmanship, the committee produced a report in favour of the proposals for a Service Complaints Ombudsman and also secured an amendment extending the powers of the Ombudsman. [107] Lydall, Ross (6 May 2020). "Rory Stewart quits race to become London Mayor saying coronavirus crisis made it 'impossible' to campaign". Evening Standard. Archived from the original on 6 May 2020 . Retrieved 7 May 2020. The transgressive adventures of a psychopath in Swinging 60s London: this ingenious homage to the avant garde is told entirely in the gay slang Polari.The Booker winner follows three generations of an Irish family, from the 70s to the present day, in a “meditation on love: spiritual, romantic, darkly sexual or genetic”, combining poetry, adventure and the resilience of women. The model and trans activist tells the story of her own search for authenticity and argues that we all transition, one way or another. The story of how Victorian and Edwardian Britain fell in love with cats, from the development of prize breeds to Louis Wain’s artistic obsession. Ex-diplomat heads list to succeed Penrith MP David Maclean". Cumberland News. 7 October 2009. Archived from the original on 24 February 2012 . Retrieved 18 October 2009.