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RORY HIGHLIGHTS FLOOD RESILIENCE GRANTS IN TEBAY PUB VISIT

  On a visit to the Cross Keys ​16th Century coaching inn at Tebay, which was flooded and left partially-closed following the devastating Storm Desmond almost one year ago, local MP and Cumbria Floods Envoy Rory Stewart highlighted the extended deadline for businesses and properties affected on 3-11 and 24-28 December 2015 to access the Floods Resilience […]

RORY SUPPORTS CLA ‘NEW OPPORTUNITIES’ CAMPAIGN FOR RURAL COMMUNITIES

Rory Stewart MP is supporting the CLA’s ‘New Opportunities’ ​r​oadshow events, and its campaign to encourage debate around the opportunities and challenges for land management and rural business in the wake of June’s Brexit vote. The local MP is the latest to support the CLA’s work, which includes a series of seminars, roundtables and meetings […]

​RORY URGES YOUNG CUMBRIANS TO CONSIDER VOLUNTEERING ABROAD​

Rory Stewart ​MP ​has urged young people in his constituency to consider applying to the UK Government funded International Citizen Service (ICS) programme, after meeting four local young people from his constituency ​who took the plunge and volunteered overseas through the scheme. Rory met with ​Bryony Crosby, Steven Lumsden, Nicola Hullock and Laura Cole ​on Friday to talk […]

RORY PRAISES PENRITH AGE UK HUB FOR SERVICES TO HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Rory Stewart MP on Friday paid a visit to the Carlisle and Eden branch of Age UK’s new Hub service, following its official opening last month. ​There he met with local staff – including ​Hub Coordinator Hazel Laithwaite, and Alison Ambrose, CEO of Carlisle and Eden Ague UK – and volunteers, and chatted about the […]

Rory speaks on the Humanitarian situation in Yemen

I begin by paying huge tribute to the right hon. Member for Leicester East (Keith Vaz). For as long as I have been in the House and long before I entered the House, he has been a great champion of the interests of Yemen. He understands Yemen, as he pointed out, from his early childhood […]

FLORENCE OF ARABIA TAMED BY A TODDLER

Article first published in The Times by Oliver Thring on 9 October 2016. In November 2014 Rory Stewart delivered his son on his bathroom floor after his wife went into labour unexpectedly. Nine months later the Tory MP, author and former adventurer held his 93-year-old father as he died. Guided by paramedics on the phone, […]

The Public Point of View

My father died just over a year ago. I dreamt about him last night. Thinking about him, I’m reminded of two things today: first, that he loved me; and second, that he was – to put it mildly – puzzled by my choice of profession. He never saw the point of parliament, which he thought […]

RORY HANDS OVER KEYS OF NEW GOVERNMENT-FUNDED FELLRUNNER MINIBUS

Rory Stewart, MP for Penrith and The Border, on Friday formally launched the latest addition to the Eden-valley based Fellrunner minibus fleet by presenting the keys to the Chair, Mrs. Jill Hay. The new minibus was obtained through a successful bid for funding from the Government’s Community Transport Minibus Fund, a government fund available to […]

RORY SUPPORTS LOCAL CHRISTIANS AGAINST POVERTY EVENT

Rory Stewart, MP for Penrith and The Border, attended an event held by the charity Christians Against Poverty on Friday to help promote their life-changing services, and to celebrate their 20th anniversary. CAP offers a wide range of services for those struggling with debt problems including free and in-depth debt counselling in the customer’s own […]