Rory Stewart is a British academic, broadcaster, and former diplomat and politician. 💥Join us on our Journey to 1 Million Subscribers💥 He served as a Conservative Member of Parliament for Penrith and The Border from 2010 to 2019 and was a junior minister in four government departments from 2015 to 2019, holding the posts of Minister for the Environment, Minister of State for International Development, Minister of State for Africa, and Minister of State for Prisons. He ultimately joined the Cabinet and National Security Council as Secretary of State for International Development. He resigned from the Conservative Party in October 2019. His memoir Politics on the Edge (published in the US as How Not to Be a Politician) was a best-seller. In March 2022, Stewart and Alastair Campbell launched The Rest Is Politics podcast, which tops politics podcast ratings in the UK most weeks. Rory’s memoir: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1529922860/ The Rest is Politics on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1Ysx8g1Iw42gESAtegrFaH #politics #election #news SPONSOR: Shopify - sign up for a £1 per month trial at https://www.shopify.co.uk/trigger/ OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Music by: Music by: Xentric | info@xentricapc.com | https://www.xentricapc.com/ YouTube: @xentricapc Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: marketing@triggerpod.co.uk Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/ Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod/ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod/ About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. 00:00 Trailer 00:48 What is conservatism? 03:00 The damage done by Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Brexit 04:42 Our big problems are structural not due to incompetence 08:50 Why the Tories failed on housing 17:22 I’m worried the Conservatives will lurch in the direction of Reform 19:28 I’ve got big problems with Rishi Sunak 21:06 SPONSOR: Shopify 22:23 What the Conservative Party needs to do 25:03 The inefficiency of the Civil Service 28:09 The fairy story of ‘we shouldn’t have to choose’ 32:42 The fairy story of ‘the market solves everything’ 34:33 The dangers of populism 38:43 Aren’t people right to have an issue with uncontrolled immigration? 45:44 We should be careful not to ‘move fast and break things’ 47:17 We’ve seen the bad results of populism 51:20 The system is screwed 52:53 Keir Starmer doesn’t even know what a woman is! 54:16 What’s the one thing we’re not talking about? Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Substack! https://triggernometry.substack.com/