Rory Stewart

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267 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard yesterday

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

There's some personal thing going on here. voice-verified

I love all that. voice-verified

Facebook page with 50,000 people. voice-verified

Exactly. voice-verified

Is it not a bit of a nightmare though being the Member of Parliament for Kakotti, given that you have a former member of Parliament and Prime Minister sitting in Kakotti on the Facebook page still inhabiting that? voice-verified

Possibly. voice-verified

He packs a lot in. voice-verified

It felt much longer than thirty five minutes. voice-verified

He speaks so quickly, so concisely. voice-verified

There's so much inform no it it's beautiful. voice-verified

And you know, he will be frustrated that he didn't get to talk more about economic policy. voice-verified

When I sat next to him at dinner, he obviously can provide a 45 minute lecture on what the Chancellor should do and how to restart the British economy. voice-verified

I do think, though, uh you know, if I was going to get onto the policy problems, I think there are probably three policy problems that I can see. voice-verified

One is it's absolutely true that membership in voluntary organizations is a collapse. voice-verified

But it's also true, as you suggested, it's unbelievably difficult for the government to do much about getting people to rejoin voluntary organizations, particularly if he says we're not gonna make it compulsory now. voice-verified

Second problem, I think, is that there's a real tension between the fact that he's still very much in favour of free trade or some version of free trade and the reality of what China means for European economies, is China Shock Two, these subsidized stuff. voice-verified

What do you do about China? voice-verified

And the third thing is the gap between daily domestic, increasingly populist inflective politics and this idea of reconstructing this big global South European alliance. voice-verified

Because probably if you were to put Keir Starmer or Kemi Badenok or Meertz or Macron in a room and say, What do you think about this? voice-verified

They might say, Well, it's all very well in practice. voice-verified

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