Politics On the Edge
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The searing inside story of our broken politics from the former Cabinet minister and co-host of The Rest Is Politics.
Over the course of a decade, 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.
Uncompromising, honest and darkly humorous, this is his story of the challenges, absurdities and realities of political life. Instantly praised as a new classic, it is an astonishing portrait of our turbulent times.
BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024
‘Rory Stewart’s Politics on the Edge digs deeper than most. As well as a fascinating insider account of the Cameron-May-Johnson premierships, it is a scathing portrait of our flawed political system and a “rebarbative profession” that, despite Stewart’s appetite for public service, chewed him up and spat him out’ GUARDIAN
‘Genuinely eye-opening…always riveting, often horrifying’
iNEWS
‘Hugely entertaining’
EVENING STANDARD
‘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
* A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE FT, GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, TELEGRAPH, TIMES, OBSERVER, i NEWSPAPER, NEW STATESMAN, PROSPECT, CHURCH TIMES AND SCOTSMAN *
© 2023 Rory Stewart (P)2023 Penguin Audio
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The harms and failings of distantly wielded power
I’ve often felt Rory lived in an Enid Blyton book. In this memoir we see a man whose expectations, rooted in a long bygone England, meet the saddening reality of the present day UK.
We see several heartening, and enlightening, vignettes; prison governance, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Cumbrian internet.
The theme of which, I felt, was that the more distant and disconnected power is from a situation, the more ineffective and borderline harmful the wielding of that power is.
Overall the book left me feeling we simply must change how we do politics in the UK, starting with electoral reform.