Rory Stewart

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24,987 appearances 93 recordings 4 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 5d ago

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

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The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 201. How Westminster Breaks Politicians and Why Britain Isn't Ready for War · 9 Aug 2026 podcast

with better moral characters. voice-verified

My sense is that he's more right when he says actually many of these people were pretty good individuals before they entered parliament and something about entering the political system makes them into pretty unreliable dodgy figures. voice-verified

And that must be about the system and the structure and I've got to believe the only way of dealing with that is to try to change the system rather than just hope for better people. voice-verified

It's absolutely true. voice-verified

It's a very, I mean, I'm very grateful for that. voice-verified

And it's a very honest book. voice-verified

There's nothing in the book which I read and say, no, my memory of it's different from that. voice-verified

I thought one of the most interesting things he was saying was his radicalism on the new way of warfare. voice-verified

We didn't have much time to dig into that. voice-verified

What he's saying there, which is basically that our entire military is fighting the wrong war, our ships, our complete Navy may be completely mal-designed and almost unnecessary, that you need to be incredibly radical, drones, AI, et cetera. voice-verified

that someone like Al Khans represents that disruptive vision of what it could be. voice-verified

I actually think that's where Johnny's heart really is. voice-verified

And if one could harness that radicalism, which he's so good at when he's talking about defense, and apply it to domestic stuff, I think it could be extraordinary. voice-verified

Again, I suspect... voice-verified

When he's saying, well, just things need to just be run a bit better. voice-verified

I mean, basically what he's saying in Plymouth is we need better leadership, better running. voice-verified

Let's just get the social services running well, get the NHS running well. voice-verified

So it's just a management task. voice-verified

When he gets into something he really has been inside for 10, 12 years, like... voice-verified

the military, he's actually much more radical than that. voice-verified

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