Politics on the Edge: A Memoir from Within - Rory Stewart Audiobook

Written by Rory Stewart
Read by Rory Stewart
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 56 Kbps
Unabridged

“Brilliantly written, completely gripping, and darkly funny - this is one of the most devastating insider accounts of Westminster I have ever read. An instant classic of political memoir. I have to warn you that this book contains mind-boggling scenes featuring some of the leading politicians we’ve been cursed with over the past few years, several of which were so excruciating I had to read them through my fingers.”
- Marina Hyde

“At last a politician who can write. In a decade at Westminster, Rory Stewart worked alongside - indeed for - most of the con-artists and dimwits of recent governments. The problem is not just one of personal calibre, however. The book suggests it is the party political system itself that tends to stifle innovation and practical change. Opinionated, lucid and thought-provoking.”
- Sebastian Faulks

“An illuminating and excoriating insight into politics and power. Candid, angry, funny, and self-revelatory”
- Jonathan Dimbleby)

From the former Conservative Cabinet minister and co-presenter of 2022’s breakout hit podcast ‘The Rest is Politics’, a searing insider’s account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament

Over the course of a decade from 2010, 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.

Tackling ministerial briefs on flood response and prison violence, engaging with conflict and poverty abroad as a foreign minister, and Brexit as a Cabinet minister, Stewart learned first-hand how profoundly hollow and inadequate our democracy and government had become. Cronyism, ignorance and sheer incompetence ran rampant. Around him, individual politicians laid the foundations for the political and economic chaos of today.

Stewart emerged battered but with a profound affection for his constituency of Penrith and the Border, and a deep direct insight into the era of populism and global conflict.

Politics On the Edge invites us into the mind of one of the most interesting actors on the British political stage. Uncompromising, candid and darkly humorous, this is his story of the challenges, absurdities and realities of political life; a new classic of political memoir and a remarkable portrait of our age.