Rory Stewart

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

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

practice, but my voters, this is not their priority, this is not their language. voice-verified

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Increasingly the way voters from left and right view the world is actually against many of the things that you put in your list. voice-verified

I also think power of ideas. voice-verified

I mean, i I've always been struck by the fact that um in about nineteen eighty-two, I think, four or five slightly eccentric Scots sat in the upper room of a pub. voice-verified

thinking about a constitution for Scottish devolution. voice-verified

And fifteen years later that was almost the blueprint of what you guys delivered. voice-verified

That yeah unless somebody does the thinking and lays out the ideas voice-verified

on that or or in fact I you know, I'd make the same point about AI, that we all say that we AI's dangerous, we should be regulating AI, we d but nobody's actually worked out the details of the charter and what this regulation is in advance. voice-verified

So when the crisis happens, something's there. voice-verified

Uh Rishi Sunak, uh, if you were to interview him, and I hope we can get Rishi, also thinks in that way, even though he might be more tech focused. voice-verified

John Major, of course, is quite interesting and talking. voice-verified

Tony Blair does lots of this stuff. voice-verified

It'd be interesting to see whether one could get them together. voice-verified

F final one though, that I o often notice interviewing these people, is that very, very quickly they become pretty high minded and global and they lose their rooting in polling voters day to day politics surprisingly quickly. voice-verified

I mean it's like I always felt this when I you know, actually uh Gordon Ram very kindly came in to see me when I was um voice-verified

the different sexual state. voice-verified

And I remember thinking oh he hasn't been out of office very long but voice-verified

He no longer sounds like a politician or feels like a politician that they're voice-verified

Very worthwhile, very interesting. voice-verified

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