Politics On the Edge
The instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller from the host of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics
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Publisher Description
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabinet minister and co-presenter of breakout hit podcast The Rest Is Politics
'The most exceptional political memoir I've ever read' ALAN JOHNSON
'An instant classic' MARINA HYDE
'At last a politician who can write' SEBASTIAN FAULKS
The Times Political Book of the Year and pick for *The Biggest Books of the Autumn*
Over the course of a decade from 2010, Rory Stewart went from being a political outsider to standing for prime minister - before being sacked from a Conservative Party that he had come to barely recognise.
Tackling ministerial briefs on flood response and prison violence, engaging with conflict and poverty abroad as a foreign minister, and Brexit as a Cabinet minister, Stewart learned first-hand how profoundly hollow our democracy and government had become.
Cronyism, ignorance and sheer incompetence ran rampant. Around him, individual politicians laid the foundations for the political and economic chaos of today. Stewart emerged battered but with a profound affection for his constituency of Penrith and the Border, and a deep direct insight into the era of populism and global conflict.
Uncompromising, candid and darkly humorous, Politics On the Edge is his story of the challenges, absurdities and realities of political life and a remarkable portrait of our age.
**A FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, TIMES, OBSERVER, i NEWSPAPER, NEW STATESMAN, PROSPECT, CHURCH TIMES AND SCOTSMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023**
Politics on the Edge was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller from 09.09.23–16.09.23, and 09.12.23–16.12.23, and 30.12.23–06.01.24
Customer Reviews
Insightful but depressing
A fascinating insight into the political establishment but the air of self-righteousness does get a bit tiresome. There’s little to cheer the reader here about the prevailing problems, sluggishness, egotism and self interest in the governing Establishment as set out in this book. It’s a shame that thr well-meaning backbenchers who do good work become subsumed into what can only be described as a moribund and somewhat grubby whole.
Detailed fascinating but depressing
Very interesting book from a Tory who cares and believes in doing good. However a bit depressing as he made me think deeply about this weak democratic system which we have. A good book a solid piece a worthy contribution to political discourse and understanding .. I say this even as a life long paid up member of the Labour Party