Rory Stewart

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24,884 appearances 92 recordings 4 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard yesterday

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

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 92 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 16.

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The Rest Is Politics · 562. The Right’s War With Itself and Burnham’s Prisons Challenge · 12 Aug 2026 podcast

There are people who are always going to vote left, there are people who are always going to vote right, and then surprisingly, there's almost a third of people who are floating voters. voice-verified

And he also finds that the left and the right are much more similar than you'd think compared to the centre. voice-verified

The left and the right tend to be whiter, older, in favour of retaining the triple lock, more exercised about immigration, generally more socially conservative. voice-verified

The centre ground. voice-verified

Turns out to be true. voice-verified

Younger, more professional, more educated, more voice-verified

Often more prosperous, happy to let the triple lock pension guarantee go. voice-verified

Interestingly, less worried about business, less worried about AI, more positive about business, more positive about AI, less worried about immigration. voice-verified

Uh positive about Europe, but also positive about Britain engaging globally, more international, less white, you know, more ethically mixed, and this is the group which is all to play for. voice-verified

This is the space that some party should be occupying. voice-verified

Not a space the Lib Dems can possibly occupy. voice-verified

They haven't really worked out the language to speak to them. voice-verified

It's a space that Andy Burnham can reach into and I think that you know one of the things that he's really good at is for the first time seeming normal, thoughtful, intelligent, relatable. voice-verified

It's a huge improvement. voice-verified

But I think he's going to struggle to actually come across as pro business entrepreneurial for this group. voice-verified

And this is where I think the Conservative Party has gone completely wrong. voice-verified

They're never getting back those reform voters. voice-verified

Well, at least fifteen percent of the British public is gonna remain out on the populist far right and they're never coming back to the Tories. voice-verified

There is this whole group there where if you could produce an Andy Burnham like figure, so somebody who was relatable, intelligent, who people trusted, but who seemed a little bit more pro business friendly, a little bit more serious about economic growth, there's a huge number of voters to hoover up. voice-verified

And that's the opportunity that's being missed. voice-verified

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