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Politics on the Edge
- A Memoir from Within
- Narrated by: Rory Stewart
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
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Politics on the Edge
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Publisher's Summary
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 *
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- Anonymous User
- 25-02-2024
Brilliance of the uk political system
There are so many interesting facets to this book, not least the ethical shortcomings of a number of prominent politicians. But Rory’s detailing of the ‘brilliance’ of the uk political system is something to behold.
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- Tansy
- 11-04-2024
Outstanding
A memoir of ideas and inspiration from a unique character whose story is enriched by it being told to us with his own voice.
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- Anonymous User
- 13-08-2024
The real inside story of why democracy is failing.
The frustrations illustrated by practical experience of dealing with the public service. “Yes Minister” without the laughs.
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- Scott Hartley
- 02-10-2024
Incredibly honest account of the decline of British politics
Rory Stewart’s insider account of the shallowness of modern British politics is brilliant. The decline of the Conservative Party.
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- James W. Matson
- 10-11-2023
Great insight, great read
I really enjoyed this insight into a fascinating and turbulent period of British politics. As neither English nor a Conservative I still gained a great deal from it. read brilliantly, well done to the author.
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- Amazon Customer
- 15-12-2023
From naïveté to experience
Rory writes with great honesty on his naïveté and self belief which ultimately is in the zone of delusion. His colleagues can see clearly his failings but what’s refreshing about Rory is he doesn’t. He presses on in vanity. It’s a great tale about how candour and integrity are a negative in politics.
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- L Brownrigg
- 25-06-2024
Grim and essential reading
Rory Stewart is the rarest of creatures: an evidence-based conservative adrift in a sea of charlatans
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- Anonymous User
- 20-09-2024
Success and yet disappointments
The only politician’s memoir that I could read to the end. Fascinating. Rory is probably the PM Britain should have had instead of the populist failure Boris. How much better off people could be now.
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- M. McCracken
- 17-01-2024
Piercing Tell All Memoir: one of the best political memoirs I’ve read
If you like your biographies searing and prepared to name names then I highly recommend this memoir of ten years inside Westminster by former Centre Conservative politician, Rory Stewart.
Well known more recently for The Rest is Politics podcast he hosts with former UK Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell and before that a diplomat Indonesia, tutor to Princes Harry and William, a professor at Harvard, an NGO founder in Kabul and a walker extraordinaire (he walked 6,000 miles across Afghanistan and asia).
Rory charts the decline of the good debate in politics, the rise of populism and the impact on a party he came to barely recognise.
More than a great political memoir, it is a great primer on operating from a values-based position whatever work you do.
This has sparked many ideas on how to freshen my approach to work.
And if you listen to the audio version you are in for a treat. Rory narrates the book and he is exceptional at regional dialects.
Highly recommended.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-10-2023
A compelling read! Highly recommend.
Quite a shocking insight into British politics & the events that gave way to Boris Johnson becoming PM.
Very impressed with Rory’s character & ethics & grateful that he wrote this fascinating book. It can’t have been easy to relive the events.
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