Rory Stewart | Ranking Tory Prime Ministers

[@keithtomlinson1280]

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.

[@simoncbentinck]

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

[@NGE0001]

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

[@simoncbentinck]

@@NGE0001what are your views??

[@NGE0001]

my views are the same as alastair campbell@@simoncbentinck

[@malcolmthompson2767]

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

[@andrewabel3927]

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

[@patrickormerod3472]

Rory Stewart is a loathsome toad

[@jackgoldstraw]

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

[@popdop0074]

​@@jackgoldstrawYeah 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

[@JupiterThunder]

He's a complete wet - no surprise that he thinks Theresa May was great, they lying vicar's daughter

[@henfc456]

I think he was Labour in the 90s?

[@dpmedhurst]

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

[@beammeup8458]

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]

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

[@danielkarmy4893]

@@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]

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]

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

[@Robbscarey]

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

[@carolineduncan6329]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😊

[@Hacienda_27]

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

[@sunseeker9581]

Ever?

[@Robbscarey]

it just encapsulates it all@@sunseeker9581

[@andrewtucker94]

He's a very naughty boy

[@Mike20216]

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]

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

[@johnm8224]

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

[@gedog77]

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]

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

[@gedog77]

@@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]

​​​​@@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]

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

[@jackdoyle7453]

Indeed if only everyone had voted for Corbyn

[@ralphbrooks2132]

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]

I agree. Well said.

[@markhargreaves1833]

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

[@loki_of_earth]

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

[@beammeup8458]

Starmer is a spineless nothing, surrounded by viciously incompetent people

[@charlesreid1311]

?What does Starmer believe in ?

[@jackdoyle7453]

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

[@aslantech52]

The thing is it doesnt matter what he believes in until he gets into office. Labour's no.1 objective is get into power, judgement of what Starmer believes in should begin after he's in office because he wont have the shackles of being an opposition party wrapped around his ankles anymore.

[@crhu319]

Best advice to Starmer is resign before Zionism destroys the UK. Scotland, Ireland and Wales will all leave before any troops go to defend genocide.

[@Chillednfunked]

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

[@dogsenseforu301]

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]

You mean the one with the too lying scumbags?

[@sharronwood4486]

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

[@StratsRUs]

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

[@beammeup8458]

Better not vote : there are only incompetents

[@richardbrown6163]

That makes sense. He's not a Conservative

[@felicityhenderson6290]

Me too

[@avacyn2000]

He’s a classical liberal, not a conservative.

[@1258-Eckhart]

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]

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

[@1258-Eckhart]

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]

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.

[@imac900]

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

[@bw1376]

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

[@ribohne]

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]

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

[@tomharrison1849]

One born every minute.

[@nigethesassenach3614]

Truly a decent, genuine and honest politician. You’ll not read a sentence like that very often. Britain is poorer for his political absence.

[@mihaelacomanescu]

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.

[@DefrostedCalvinist]

I wish she had shown up when she called that early general election. She could have won.

[@Pippins666]

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

[@JFW5358]

Me likewise.

[@lighting7508]

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

[@Pippins666]

@@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

[@快一点我只想看见血流]

@@lighting7508 LOL

[@Pippins666]

@@lighting7508 Not at all - Tories didn't used to be all rabid right wingers like they are now,, although I'm embarrassed to say I was once. Then I started reading The Guardian, to have my prejudices challenged, not reinforced...and now I'm to the left of Keir Starmer (actually, quite a few centre left Tories are to the left of Starmer!)

[@BertWald-wp9pz]

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

[@Hacienda_27]

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

[@trevortrevortsr2]

I'd vote for this guy

[@emmabovary9374]

Very unsettling story about Liz Truss. Her thinking is delusional, characterised by jumping to conclusions (JTC- in psychiatric parlour). Ideas come suddenly and they leave just as suddenly. With devastating and dangerous consequences. Thank you Rory for spotting the pattern.

[@timelwell7002]

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.

[@philipelstone6171]

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

[@cinziam457]

A private face in a public space is better than a public face in a private space ~ W.H. Auden.

[@davidcook4777]

It was E.M. Forster who wrote first about preferring private faces in public places

[@gailhill5734]

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?

[@stevenperren1678]

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]

Why?

[@stevenperren1678]

@@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]

did you mean castrated?

[@redrev674]

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

[@annewalden3795]

​@@MrTonyHeathNo I think Castration needs a surgeon and an anaesthetist.

[@Left-is-right-8192]

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

[@sunseeker9581]

Were you asleep through Brexit?

[@adesanyasnipple5338]

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

[@johngalvin3124]

I thought it said, 'Rank Tory Prime Ministers'. That would be most of them. 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@johnwright7895]

Well done Rory.

[@donnakantaris2287]

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]

Cameron : spineless with a total lack of initiative .

[@cehlattin]

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.

[@crhu319]

Easily stupidest man ever to hold office in UK. Sunak is at least a crook and Johnson a Nazi. They believe in things .

[@RobinRichardson-p7k]

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

[@sunseeker9581]

Well said. Some common sense at last

[@johnnotrealname8168]

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

[@ciarand2823]

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

[@ronaldsimpson8890]

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

[@kumarroy4796]

Rory the great. Would've made the PM we needed but ..... Absolutely spot on on Boris, his character & the damage to British society in the Cameron - Boris era

[@francesT5877]

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

[@samworrall6789]

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

[@simeonlewis4915]

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]

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

[@Lerie2010able]

Excellent discussion, enlightening.

[@stevewatkinson4593]

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

[@albedo0point39]

He should be. He really isn’t a Tory.

[@garyambrosini1427]

He's just another blairite

[@jackdoyle7453]

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

[@yellowletters9465]

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

[@crhu319]

If he realizes NATO and Zionism and fossil and nuclear are all nothing but problems, he can join the Greens.

[@Michiel_de_Jong]

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

[@TheAwesomeGingerGuy]

Stewart was never Tory leader.

[@Michiel_de_Jong]

@@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]

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

[@TheValeyard92]

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]

@@TheValeyard92 A purge.

[@rainblaze.]

Will we ever get this in its entirety ?

[@pavement422]

A decent Tory. A rare thing.

[@realJPRC]

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

[@corvus1238]

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]

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

[@chrispalmer7893]

@@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]

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]

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

[@bodsnvimto]

As a 60yr-old who got into politics as a teen, and has since been a Labour supporter, ha shad my local then-and -now with a five year gap, MP over to my house, as well as being to his and meeting his wife - a Labour counceller - a couple of times, and has delivered their leaflets for them, I have to admit I massively respect Rory. A true gent and good, well-meaning man. I listen regularly to his podcast with Alistair - a man I always liked immensely - and I did so in part due to the fact that I already thought Rory to be top-notch. It's not as though the pod has convinced me, it's just reaffirmed by belief.

[@thevale2456]

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

[@chrispalmer7893]

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]

Bullshit baffles brains

[@tomharrison1849]

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

[@chrispalmer7893]

@@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]

@@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]

@@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?

[@janeclark1881]

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

[@Pippins666]

No, just a little prick

[@stephenreeds3632]

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

[@alfieprothero2774]

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

[@mauranolan843]

Rory is not pretentious, Johnson is.

[@briandelaney9710]

Rory is serious. Johnson isn’t

[@johnmcculloch4097]

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

[@Edward-uf8mi]

There a so many people pleading for Rory Stewart to return to politics in some significant capacity. The election weeks have proved that it's so far beneath his integrity and discretion. We are so lucky that he is vocal from the sidelines where he can do good by criticism and scrutiny.

[@richardthomas9839]

The only Tory I would ever vote for

[@peacefulpleb]

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]

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

[@jackdoyle7453]

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

[@bigblue6917]

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

[@Hacienda_27]

David Cameron probably thought he was A good PM

[@MookMineola]

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

[@bigblue6917]

@@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.

[@kdum8]

This guy should be the prime minister

[@sammyharvard835]

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.

[@MrArchie800]

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.

[@Vintageme1966]

Come back to politics Rory Stewart and take on Labour and Farage. This country needs honest politicians like you.

[@DavidBrown-bb9gj]

Come back to politics and take on the tories!!!

[@barbararichmond5242]

Boris Johnson was a prancing elephant. Remember that.

[@nigelandrews5617]

Talks alot of common sense 👏👏

[@Joe-zu7lx]

Just beginning to get interesting at the end!

[@chrispalmer7893]

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]

20k police went under her watch?

[@chrispalmer7893]

@@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]

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

[@johnnotrealname8168]

@@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]

A lot of noise for such a pointless comment

[@keithsmith3678]

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?

[@danremenyi1179]

I can understand the anger towards Johnson.

[@catherinebutler4819]

Johnson is not Achilles - but he is a heel.

[@wormsnake1]

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]

You mean like Jeremy Corbyn?

[@annehudson3210]

Rory is a one off, had he been PM things would have been very different.

[@RugbyLeagueisbest]

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]

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]

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

[@MrTonyHeath]

@@johnnotrealname8168 Great? Surely you jest.

[@MrTonyHeath]

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

[@johnnotrealname8168]

@@MrTonyHeath Nay!

[@Gar96229]

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]

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

[@lenabo9929]

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. 😊

[@BjørjaBear]

Dennis Skinner said that when people start feeling sorry for a politician, they're done.

[@brusselssprouts560]

He should be back in politics asap.

[@omiethamsia9009]

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

[@dorgly8951]

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

[@omiethamsia9009]

@@dorgly8951 how so?

[@avacyn2000]

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

[@omiethamsia9009]

@@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.

[@jonathonjubb6626]

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

[@jmmypaddy]

What Rory missess about 2008-2010 is that the country had began recovery of sorts, put in measures to ensure banks were more accountable and stablility was on the horizon. It was deeply cruel to put the burdon of financial lacking from capitalist over reach onto the shoulders of local councils and services. Even the former head of the Bank of England on Rory's podcast said that austerity was not needed. You cannot stimulate an economy if the state pulls back measures and mechanisms that allow local areas to prosper. The UK's economic inequalities have accelerated in the laat 14 years and now Labour have to clear it up. The UK in 2024 due Tory policies of the last 14 years: Privatised probation services - companies making profit on the back of crime Privatised water companies - dumping sewage in seas and rivers ViP contracts - billions leaking out the economy due to contracts during covid being given to people and companies who were friends with and donors of the Tory Party. The last but means, people donate money to Tories not the country and these people get government contracts. The Tories were NEVER in service to help the economy and nation, they began austerity to help their friends. Rory missess this every time.

[@pedanticradiator1491]

Rory was my local MP for a while and although at the time i was a Tory (im not now) the 2nd time he stood for election i voted against him due to him having a photo taken in the local paper with someone i despise

[@ggeorgiejames]

The Liz Truss story threw me 😂

[@adamgutteridge9664]

Ranking Tory prime ministers is pointless as they all have Tory beliefs which is the wrong way to see the world

[@morning_glorymonster3473]

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.

[@himarkburdett9378]

Rory Stewart should be leader of a new moderate party the free Democrats party

[@nadiadixon5805]

prancing elefant...love it

[@leonardodavid2842]

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.

[@agesilaustr]

Will the full interview be available somehwere?

[@agesilaustr]

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

[@paulharrison3926]

Bojo was not Achilles ,but he was a heel

[@coderider3022]

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

[@stephenreeds3632]

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

[@edsr164]

What is the name of the book Rory wrote?

[@mozin.a]

4:20 the part about truss 😭

[@paulcryan3206]

A huge intellect

[@DoubleOSeven007]

The respect for Theresa May needs addressing. She signed off the 'hostile environment policy' which led to the Windrush Scandal. Those poor folk are still suffering today.

[@chalkeygas93]

Interesting his views on Iraq considering his friendship with Alistair Campbell

[@LeftLib]

Rory Stewart is right to say as he has elsewhere that Labour do not have an economic policy. I was waiting to hear what his policy is, I thought he was building up to it but then the video came to an end. I do not think that he has got one either.

[@lesliehall7683]

I wonder who is ranking him,prat

[@ciaranwalsh9963]

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.

[@lindsaydrewe8219]

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😊

[@JohnFromAccounting]

Liz Truss was a problem because she was incompetent. Boris Johnson was a problem because he was extremely competent.

[@WedgeOfSpite]

The financial crisis wasn't brought on by Labour Party policies, they were brought on by capitalism with less government regulation, across many parts of the world --which you as a Tory are for less governmental control.

[@chrisstoddart4342]

Such a shame Rory did not become prime minister. It does beg the question,how on earth have Cameron, Johnson and Truss get into that position ? It tells me there is something completely wrong with our political system

[@JoelPickard]

Where can I watch the full EP?

[@Tom_murray89]

Boris just wanted to be prime minister for the sake of his own ego

[@CarlinConnolly]

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

[@crhu319]

Correct. But he must understand the hard case against NATO, Zionism, nuclear and fossil, and even against biofuels and combustion itself. He has to see the cebtral role of diet in climate, and come to peace with China and abandon GDP as a goal. That's a lot for a former Tory.

[@JamalBrown-k1x]

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

[@JsbsbJnshayah]

Rory Stewart might be the only man who could convince me to vote Tory.

[@thejobinterviewcoach9901]

Wish the chair would allow him to speak more

[@loki_of_earth]

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]

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.

[@kenmay1572]

Should have ranked chancellors in addition to PM's

[@DianeBonner-g3d]

I agree especially shut parliment down got our queen invoved and didnt care about valves