Rory Stewart

This article is about the writer and politician. For the squash player, see Rory Stewart (squash player) .

Rory Stewart (2017)

Roderick James Nugent "Rory" Stewart , OBE , FRSL , MP (born January 3, 1973 in Hong Kong ) is a Scottish academic, writer and politician. He sat in the House of Commons from May 2010 to November 2019 and was a member of the Conservative Party . His constituency of Penrith and The Border is in Cumbria in north-west England . From May 2019 he was development aid minister in the May II cabinet . He resigned on July 24, 2019.

Life

Growing up in Malaysia as the son of a Scottish diplomat , Stewart attended Eton College . He studied history, philosophy, politics and economics at the University of Oxford . The Princes William, Duke of Cambridge and Harry, Duke of Sussex took lessons from him. He briefly served in the Royal Regiment of Scotland (Black Watch). In the 1990s, Stewart worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (or intelligence) in Indonesia, East Timor, and Montenegro. After the Iraq war , he was for two years in Iraq, sent to negotiate between the warring tribes to organize elections and advance projects of development aid. About it he wrote the book The Prince of the Marshes . He then lived in Kabul for three years . He helped a foundation run by Charles, Prince of Wales , to restore water and electricity supplies, open schools and hospitals, and organize the finances. For 32 days he wandered through Afghanistan alone . The impressions he processed in his book So far the knee wear ( english The Places in Between ). He speaks eleven languages.

When Secretary of Defense Gavin Williamson was unexpectedly dismissed on May 1, 2019 and replaced by Penny Mordaunt , Prime Minister Theresa May nominated Secretary of State Rory Stewart for Mordaunts previous post as Minister for Development Aid and Equality. After Prime Minister Theresa May's resignation at the end of May 2019, Rory Stewart ruled out working with Boris Johnson , one of the applicants for her successor. Stewart himself was also traded as a possible successor, with Kenneth Clarke and the BBC considering him the (by far) best candidate to succeed Theresa May. Stewart failed in mid-June 2019 in his party's selection process against his competitors Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt , Michael Gove and Sajid Javid . In the course of the Brexit debates, Stewart was expelled from the Conservative Party's parliamentary group. He received the information about this via SMS.

Stewart announced in early October 2019 that he would no longer run for his constituency in the next House of Commons elections. Instead, he wants to run as a non-party candidate in the 2020 London mayoral elections .

Works

• The Prince of the Marshes . Harcourt 2006. ISBN = 0-15-101235-0.
• The Places in Between (As far as your knees can carry). Picador 2006. ISBN = 0-15-603156-6
• with Gerald Knaus: Can Intervention Work? Amnesty International Global Ethics Series . WW Norton & Co. 2011. ISBN 0-393-08120-6 .

Web links

Commons : Rory Stewart  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Allegra Stratton: Former royal tutor Rory Stewart selected for safe Tory seat. In: guardian.co.uk . October 26, 2009, accessed February 1, 2012 . 
2. ↑ https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/philip-hammond-quits-as-chancellor-after-boris-johnson-becomes-new-tory-leader-a4195951.html
3. ↑ Russ Allbery: Review: The Prince of the Marshes by Rory Stewart. In: eyrie.org. February 28, 2011, accessed June 19, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Russ Allbery: Review: The Places in Between by Rory Stewart. In: eyrie.org. December 19, 2009, accessed February 1, 2012 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} He tells the Tories what they don't want to hear (zeit.de)
6. ↑ Laura Kuenssberg: Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson sacked over Huawei leak. In: BBC . May 1, 2019, accessed June 19, 2019 . 
7. ^ Rob Merrick: Rory Stewart rules out working under Boris Johnson, branding a no-deal Brexit 'damaging and dishonest'. In: The Independent . May 25, 2019, accessed June 19, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Power struggle with the British: Johnson rival Stewart is thrown out of the Tory competition. In: Spiegel Online . June 19, 2019, accessed June 19, 2019 . 
9. ^ Tory leadership contest: Rory Stewart knocked out. In: BBC. June 19, 2019, accessed June 19, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Oliver Kühn: After defeat of the vote: British government throws dissenters from parliamentary group . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed September 4, 2019]).
11. ^ Rory Stewart quits Tories to run for London mayor . October 4, 2019 ( bbc.com [accessed October 5, 2019]).