Keynote Speech by Rory Stewart - The State of the Constitution 2022

Sdílet
Vložit
  • čas přidán 2. 08. 2024
  • Rory Stewart was Conservative MP for Penrith and the Border between 2010 and 2019. He served in government under David Cameron and Theresa May, including as a Home Office minister and Secretary of State for International Development. As a former diplomat, he served on the House of Commons Foreign Affairs and Defence Committees, the latter of which he chaired from 2014 to 2015. In 2019, he contested the Conservative Party leadership against Boris Johnson, before being stripped of the party whip over Johnson’s approach to Brexit, and then stepping down from parliament. Among other things he is currently the co-host, with Alastair Campbell, of the popular podcast 'The Rest is Politics'.

Komentáře • 44

  • @eileenwatson9708
    @eileenwatson9708 Před 2 lety +35

    We need more people like Rory in parliament. I fear for the future of democracy in this country.

  • @HaggardPillockHD
    @HaggardPillockHD Před 2 lety +25

    I can listen to Rory Stewart all day long. An articulate, erudite politician of our generation.

  • @JK-zx3go
    @JK-zx3go Před 2 lety +30

    A Tory I can listen too. Always speaks with intelligence, no hyperbole, no lies, just a reasoned opinion. May not agree with his politics but the Tory party needs more of this and less of the rogues gallery running for PM.

    • @HaggardPillockHD
      @HaggardPillockHD Před 2 lety +1

      The problem is that Brexit politicians relied on hyperbole and lies to get votes this is the issue. Contrast that with Jeremy Hunt, Rory Stewart, and David Cameron against the current band of Brexit MPs in government.

    • @markmoran916
      @markmoran916 Před 2 lety

      @@HaggardPillockHD
      Jeremy hunt if you excuse my French is a hunt.......he like dizzy lizzy has jumped on the brexitard band wagon just to appeal to the dimwit members of the Tory party

  • @lmg7503
    @lmg7503 Před 2 lety +6

    Rory speaks with such eloquence and with sincerity. If only more were like him.

  • @dulcieogilvie5786
    @dulcieogilvie5786 Před rokem +3

    The only Tory with intelligence and integrity.

  • @beammeup8458
    @beammeup8458 Před rokem +2

    Excellent Rory ! Thank you

  • @daiu48
    @daiu48 Před rokem +1

    As an ex MP and minister RS is showing how badly parliament needs urgent reform in order to stay relevant.
    Yes to PR, citizen assemblies and a serious discussion of universal basic income, given the warning signs of economic decline, pandemic and climate issues.

  • @3bebles
    @3bebles Před rokem

    Thank you ALL, but Rory in particular. Thinking of powerful past politicians, they all had a spell of out in the wilderness from politics. Take strength from their experience and come back...

  • @scroggins100
    @scroggins100 Před 2 lety +1

    Such a shame there are no other people of perception and integrity in Westminster.

  • @suzannelooms7658
    @suzannelooms7658 Před 2 lety +3

    Committee hearings work? Really? Patel & Raab just didn't turn up to be interviewed on the Rwanda policy. Examples of ministers treating select committees with contempt.

  • @yasminanjum3310
    @yasminanjum3310 Před 2 lety +2

    In case people didn't hear it at the beginning this was recorded on 23th June 2022 exactly 6 years after the Brexit Referendum...

  • @videomillsy
    @videomillsy Před 2 lety +1

    Comment the hour, comment the man?

  • @user-cx8ro1pu4r
    @user-cx8ro1pu4r Před 11 měsíci

    How would you do what you had to do? The government

  • @mollycuddle9990
    @mollycuddle9990 Před 2 lety +2

    Love Rory. Love how his mind works. Deep, compartmentalised honest and sincere thinker. Caring realist.. I know this comment is too late but I always wonder if he’s single as I’d love to go out with him. So attractive. xx

    • @KloppMichaelBarnes
      @KloppMichaelBarnes Před rokem +1

      Sound mind. He is happily married with a wife and two children!

  • @randyschwaggins
    @randyschwaggins Před 2 lety +5

    I think if Rory didn't look so much like a Wallace and Gromit character he would be the leader of the Tory party and quite possibly PM

    • @DayVid2.0
      @DayVid2.0 Před 2 lety +11

      Boris looks like Worzel Gummidge in a giant dropped trifle. Rees Mogg looks like a haunted pencil. Michael Gove is like a sentient enema. I don't think it's Rory's aesthetic that makes him unpopular with the braying Brexit loons. They don't take kindly to nuanced and reasoned debate.

    • @videomillsy
      @videomillsy Před 2 lety +3

      @@DayVid2.0 Rees Mogg was described recently by Alistair Campbell as a “mewling pencil”. 😄😂

    • @explorer0213
      @explorer0213 Před 2 lety +2

      Rees mogg always appears to me to look like a grown up Harry Potter gone ugly with age.

  • @richardcope8102
    @richardcope8102 Před rokem

    Farages & Corbyns audiences were largely self-selecting and leader-supportive ( think fan clubs ). They held deep attraction but only to a tiny minority. Maverick Tories were needed to deliver on Leave for Farage. #politics

    • @lutherblissett9070
      @lutherblissett9070 Před rokem

      It's almost certainly impossible to conduct several thousand public speaking engagements and only speak to supporters, and I think the appeal of those two individuals was not to an insignificantly tiny minority but a quite significant section of the population, probably 20% each.

    • @richardcope8102
      @richardcope8102 Před rokem

      @@lutherblissett9070 if you compare Farages march with the Remainer march ( who had no overall leader ) Farages active supporters were negligible. I agree that Corbyn had strong support, maybe at your suggested level, but neither leader was powerful enough to enter Government honestly & through the front door. #politics

  • @johnnycomelately6341
    @johnnycomelately6341 Před rokem

    Unfortunately 1814 sound quality!

  • @wilfredtackie2351
    @wilfredtackie2351 Před rokem

    One nation
    One people
    One destiny
    But this is not what we see from the modern politician.
    The modern politician sticks strictly to magnetism
    Like poles repel

  • @andrewmarcham5808
    @andrewmarcham5808 Před 2 lety

    I’m

  • @suzannelooms7658
    @suzannelooms7658 Před 2 lety +1

    Sunflower oil? What are you talking about? Ukraine was regarded as the bread basket of the world, which is why it was targeted by Hitler & Stalin. Currently 6th largest producer of wheat. Fertile soil, ideal for grain.

    • @videomillsy
      @videomillsy Před 2 lety +6

      And sunflower oil as well. It’s not either/or.

    • @upendasana7857
      @upendasana7857 Před 2 lety

      Ukraine is the largest producer of sunflower oil in the world,together with Russia they produce 50%of the worlds supply...there you go...think the man knows what he is talking about

  • @jasonkingshott2971
    @jasonkingshott2971 Před 2 lety

    Hell hath no fury like a failed, ineffective politician scorned.

    • @Overtime123
      @Overtime123 Před 2 lety +2

      You clearly don't understand the quote or you haven't watched the interview.

    • @jasonkingshott2971
      @jasonkingshott2971 Před 2 lety

      @@Overtime123 I clearly do.

    • @Overtime123
      @Overtime123 Před 2 lety +2

      @@jasonkingshott2971 Then your powers of deduction are in need of refinement…

    • @jasonkingshott2971
      @jasonkingshott2971 Před 2 lety

      @@Overtime123 Thanks for your suggestions, however, you look after your powers of deduction and I will look after mine.

    • @bryangeake5826
      @bryangeake5826 Před 2 lety +1

      .....pointing out facts is scornful behaviour??? Or is it more a case of 'Hell have no furry like a Brexiteer presented with inconvenient facts'!!