Episode Details

Former MP, Tory leadership candidate, author and now host of the UK's biggest politics podcast The Rest is Politics, Rory Stewart is today's guest on Inside Politics. His gripping memoir Politics on the Edge (now available in paperback) is the jumping off point for a wide-ranging discussion:

• How the West blundered in Iraq and Afghanistan

• Why answering a call for new blood in politics led him to become a Tory MP

• His difficult relationship with David Cameron 

• His disillusionment with the fundamental ‘unseriousness’ of UK politics

• Minister of State for Northern Ireland Steve Baker’s statement that a border poll should need a supermajority to pass 

• The nature of constitutional politics and referendums 

• His disbelief and disappointment when Boris Johnson became his party’s leader and UK prime minister 

• Liz Truss as a Margaret Thatcher tribute act 

• Why Keir Starmer will be the next prime minister - and the two things he lacks for the job.

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