Rory Stewart

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145 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard 13 Sep

Rory Stewart’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 207. Gordon Brown: How to Fix a Fracturing World · 20 Sep 2026 podcast

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And and the only one in otherwise a conversation about global politics. voice-verified

But it but at the end of it, he very much teased me about that and said, you know voice-verified

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you to be with him because be with him. voice-verified

younger listeners who don't remember this, uh it was an amazing moment. voice-verified

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Tony Blair had been this unbelievably successful new Labour Prime Minister, achieved an incredible majority when actually when I was at school, I mean just to put it in context, um studying politics A level and in the late eighties, early nineties. voice-verified

Um, the conventional wisdom was Labour can never win again. voice-verified

The structures of British politics permanently excluded them. voice-verified

They were doomed because they've been losing since 79. voice-verified

And then Tony Blair wins this incredible majority in 97. voice-verified

And then eventually he hands over to Gordon Brown. voice-verified

And at least the story in the public, which I think must be broadly true, is that Gordon Brown was cross because he thought he should have handed over earlier. voice-verified

But anyway, eventually he inherits. voice-verified

He gets the crown. voice-verified

And people like me are very sort of taken with the idea that here is this incredible kind of intellectual titan coming in as Prime Minister and he's going to fix all the problems that we thought were there with the blur government. voice-verified

I actually wrote a an article for the New York Times in two thousand nine, which David Cameron's never forgiven me for, I think, where I said Gordon Brown represents the moral seriousness of the new politics and you know, much better than voice-verified

What I saw as Cameron's more lightweight approach to things. voice-verified

And of course it turned out that in pure, raw political terms, it didn't work. voice-verified

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