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Interview with The Times

Article first published in The Times by Rachel Sylvester and Alice Thomson, 13 April 2019 Every Sunday night, Rory Stewart draws a multi-coloured flow chart mapping out the possible Brexit scenarios. “It begins with six or seven immediate paths but then each one divides and subdivides,” he explains. “You have to hold in your head 25 […]

Prospect Magazine Interview

Article first published in Prospect by Tom Clark on 12 April 2019. Shortly before the referendum, I recall reading Matthew Parris in the Times arguing that a Leave vote would “destroy” moderate conservatism in this country. At the time, this struck me as columnist’s hyperbole. This week, however, I met with prisons minister, one-nation Tory and the unlikely star […]

WATCH RORY DISCUSS BREXIT

Rory appeared on the Victoria Derbyshire Show this morning to discuss Brexit and the current political situation alongside Stephen Doughty MP. Watch it here: He also spoke to Jeremy Vine this afternoon: And the PM Programme on 5 April: Five Live: And Channel 4 News:

RORY VISITS LOCAL FISH FARM AS IT CELEBRATES NEW PERMITS

Rory met with staff from Cooke Aquaculture to celebrate the launch of the Burn Banks site’s new permit limits and Environmental Management System. He was given a tour of the premises at the foot of Haweswater dam and shown several of the 220,000 juvenile salmon, which had grown up on site. Salmon grow in freshwater released from […]

NO DEAL

No-Deal is not a destination: it is a failure to reach a destination. And it would be perceived rightly – by our international partners and investors – as a signal failure of sense, statesmanship, and strategy. We would drop overnight into the margins of the world’s trading system. We would have left all the fundamental […]

WATCH RORY DISCUSS BREXIT

Rory appeared on BBC News today to discuss Brexit and tomorrow’s votes with Vicki Young. Watch it here: Channel 4 News with Jon Snow: 5 Live with Emma Barnett: And the BBC’s ‘Beyond 100 Days’: And Newsnight with George Freeman MP and Stella Creasy MP:

RORY SPEAKS ON KNIFE CRIME

Rory, in his capacity as Minister of State at the Ministry of Justice, spoke in a Westminster Hall Debate yesterday on knife crime and the Government’s response. Watch it here:

WATCH RORY TALK BREXIT

Rory appeared on Politics Live to discuss the current state of the Brexit and the political situation. Watch it here: Newsnight: On the Jeremy Vine Show: The World At One with Mark Mardell: And on Sky News last night: