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Your crude and uncouth reviewer longed for him to tell the game-playing whips to eff off when they insisted he stay in parliament and miss his train to Penrith; to face down the senior civil servant who accused him loudly and mutinously of using International Development as an ego trip. But the man from Cumbria wandered lonely as a cloud through all the turbulence, keeping his temper, doing his job.

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.Letts, Quentin (7 June 2019). "Springtime for Stewart is no laughing matter". The Times. Archived from the original on 27 November 2020 . Retrieved 11 October 2020. Rory Stewart MP leads national campaign for parish financing". National Association of Local Councils. 30 April 2013. Archived from the original on 16 July 2013 . Retrieved 19 December 2017.

a b c d e f g h Fletcher, Martin (1 November 2019). "Rory Stewart: 'Boris and I are complete chalk and cheese. I'm suspicious of the whole show' ". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 19 May 2021 . Retrieved 14 March 2021.Stewart was successful in securing the Cumbrian broadband pilot in 2011, [78] and in November 2013, broadband provider EE cited the support of Government and regulatory policy in announcing that over 2,000 residents and businesses in rural Cumbria were to have access to superfast home and office broadband for the first time. [79] In February 2015, Stewart secured more funding to continue the broadband roll-out in Cumbria. [80] He was also part of the successful campaigns against the closure of the Penrith cinema [81] and fire station, [82] and helped to secure agreement and funding for disabled access at Penrith Station, [83] and the dualling of the A66 road, [84] and for flood defence funding for Cumbria. [85] National roles and influence before becoming a Minister [ edit ] Desert Island Discs – Rory Stewart". BBC Radio 4. 20 January 2008. Archived from the original on 1 February 2009 . Retrieved 10 October 2009. Novelist and poet Fagan writes powerfully about her childhood as a ward of the state, a rootless existence that fostered a fascination with storytelling.

He did it best as prisons minister, inheriting a situation where 85,000 convicts were being jammed into 65,000 prison places and where, perversely, a third of prison officers had been sacrificed to austerity. Violence was rife, fuelled by drugs. He knew that access to them was 30 times higher in jails here than in Sweden. With support from his boss, David Gauke, he drew up a programme to fix the broken windows through which drone-delivered drugs arrived regularly, installing scanners, improving search procedures and setting clearer standards.a b Elgot, Jessica (18 June 2019). " 'This is serious': the unlikely rise of Rory Stewart's pitch to be PM". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 3 March 2021 . Retrieved 12 March 2021. An examination of atheism and the fundamental psychological pull of religious faith from the comedian and author of Jews Don’t Count. One of Britain’s foremost conductors lifts the lid on what they actually do and how you become one. Rory Stewart". The New York Review of Books. Archived from the original on 22 July 2018 . Retrieved 8 March 2018. whose brilliant academic career was cut short by a psychotic illness that led him to commit a horrific act of violence.