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Revealed: How Prince Charles ‘made request’ of Tory leadership hopeful Rory Stewart
Tory Leadership: Rory Stewart denies being a spy
The International Development Secretary is considered an underdog in the race, but his odds have recently been slashed to 12/1 on Betfair, second only to Boris Johnson. In contrast to the former Foreign Secretary, who has insisted he will take the UK out of the EU with or without a deal, Mr Stewart has emphasised that no deal would be “catastrophic”. While he seems to have won the hearts of many on social media, Mr Stewart ranks poorly among Tory members, who will have the final say.
Before he became MP for Penrith and The Border, Mr Stewart was Executive Chairman of a non-profit NGO in Afghanistan.
This is where his surprise connection to the Prince of Wales comes from.
The NGO, called Turquoise Mountain, was founded by the prince in 2006 with Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
Charles then asked Mr Stewart to run the organisation, according to
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Keith Simpson, Conservative MP and former aide to William Hague, says: 'It had been a gradual process. He used to komma to talk to us when we were in Opposition, helping us with policy formulation. David Cameron was ansträngande to recruit potential MPs from a wider background. I think Ed Llewellyn [Cameron's ledare of staff] may have helped övertyga him to try for a seat.'
He tried and failed to land the Tory nomination in suburban Bracknell, Berkshire. His second bid was more successful. He became Tory candidate for Penrith and the Border, Willie Whitelaw's old seat in the hairy north. With its mountains and its history of border tensions, it's about as close to Afghanistan as you can get this side of the Suez Canal.
In the Commons, at first, he would sit on the floor, partly concealed. An old spy habit? Near the end of his first Parliament, he was elected chairman of the Defence Select Committee, a senior position. He looked set for a decade of harrumphing from
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Rory Stewart
British politician, academic and broadcaster (born 1973)
For the Scottish squash player, see Rory Stewart (squash player).
Not to be confused with Rory Stuart.
Roderick James Nugent Stewart (born 1973) [1]is a British academic, broadcaster, writer, and former diplomat and politician. He has taught at Harvard University and at Yale University, where he is the Brady-Johnson Professor of the Practice of Grand Strategy at Yale University's Jackson School of Global Affairs.[2]
Stewart served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Penrith and The Border between 2010 and 2019, representing the Conservative Party. Stewart served in the UK Government as Minister of State for Environment (2015–16), International Development (2015–16), Africa (2016–18) and Prisons (2018–19) and then as Secretary of State for International Development (2019). In 2019, Stewart stood for Leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister following the resignation of Theresa Ma