Penrith and The Border is now a part of the Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy, following the planting of five saplings in Castle Park by Rory Stewart MP. The Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy, launched at the 2015 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting by Frank Field MP, aims to save the association’s members’ forests by creating a network of […]
Rory appeared on Question Time this evening, hosted by Fiona Bruce, and on a panel with Diane Abbott, Shadow Home Secretary, Kirsty Blackman, the SNP’s Spokesperson on the Economy, Isabel Oakeshott, the journalist and author, and Anand Menon, Professor at Kings College London.
Rory, in his capacity as Minister of State at the Ministry of Justice, appeared before the Welsh Affairs Committee of the House of Commons today, alongside Edward Argar, Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Ministry of Justice, to discuss prison provision in Wales. Watch it here:
Rory has confirmed that he will be voting in favour of the Government’s Brexit Deal this evening. This vote will determine whether Britain is to leave the European Union under the terms of the Withdrawal Agreement and in line with the Political Declaration that the Prime Minister negotiated. Rory has been a supporter of the Prime Minister’s […]
Long before I was a politician, I monitored – as a diplomat – two elections in Indonesia, and ran a polling station for the first post-Saddam elections in Iraq. Later, again on behalf of Britain, I helped define the conditions for an election in Zimbabwe, funded grass-roots movements in Pakistan, parliamentary mentoring in Burma, and […]
Rory appeared on Channel 4 News with Krishnan Guru-Murthy last night, to discuss the Prime Minister’s Brexit Deal, and the day’s events in Parliament. Watch it here: He also appeared on Five Live, listen to it here: On Newsnight: On LBC: And with Christiane Amanpour on CNN:
Rory appeared on BBC2’s “Politics Live” with Jo Coburn this afternoon, alongside Sarah Champion, Isabel Oakeshott and Lesley Riddoch, to discuss Brexit, levels of abuse directed towards politicians and the prison system. Watch it here:
Rory will plant five trees on 18 January at Castle Park in Penrith, as part of the Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy. The saplings, two silver birch, two rowan and a hazel, are UK sourced and grown, and were donated by a partnership between the Woodland Trust, Sainsbury’s and ITV. If well maintained they can be expected to grow […]
Rory has welcomed the news of new Government grants to two local Mountain Rescue Teams. The Penrith Mountain Rescue Team has received £8,586.74 while Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was given £4,005. The money comes from the Government’s Rescue Boat Grant Fund, which was launched in 2014 with the objective of distributing £5 million over five years to independent search and […]
Rory appeared on the Today Programme with Jon Humphreys to discuss the use of scanners to combat the supply of drugs on the prison estate. Listen to it here: