Rory Stewart | Ranking Tory Prime Ministers
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- David Cameron, Liz Truss, Theresa May, and Boris Johnson. What a list of bosses eh? Former Prime Ministerial candidate Rory Stewart breaks down his time working in Parliament and provides an honest assessment of the Conservative Government's reign since 2010.
An Evening with Rory Stewart hosted by Tom Holland was originally broadcast on Mon 4 Sep, live from the Barbican Centre, London.
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Rory Stewart is a rare national treasure. I am not conservative, but I admire his honesty and his integrity is unequalled.
Rory Stewart is a loathsome toad
rory stewart isnt a conservative either, hes more of a centrist/lib dem
@@user-yf5iz9lf6xYeah he's an actual classical liberal that leans into a lot of bridge buildibg between the left and right, even tho this is pointless lol
I wish to God Rory had become Prime Minister. An honest and decent man. So very rare in British politics.
Rory is a sweet boy, whose walk across Afghanistan puts him at a different level from others, but is too nice. Politics is a dirty game …. As illustrated by the fat boy, Blair and others ….. until they break the mould, the British people will continue to be guverned by incompetent trash.
Hence why he wouldn't have a chance. These values, for most, aren't understood in the UK.
@@harryturner9304 And that's in our society as a whole, regardless of the political arena. Our politics reflect our society; people are self-serving, they'll be nefarious if it means they get the upper hand or they get ahead (and there's a general acceptance that, as long as it does get you ahead, that's OK), people become intensely uncomfortable if others are honest around them or disagree with the majority...
Thank goodness he didn't become PM. Nothing principled about him at all. Was one of he MP's who desperately tried to thwart the result of the biggest refendum ever held in the UK. Who would want to go to an evening with him.
A scumbag etonian tory? You could have had an honest and decent man as PM you should of voted for Corbyn
I would never vote conservative but I would vote for Rory in a heartbeat.
He's _doing well_
Likes Theresa's Hostile Environment and Windrush.
" Genuinely Honourable".
Voting Record of Rory ?
Better not vote : there are only incompetents
That makes sense. He's not a Conservative
Me too
He’s a classical liberal, not a conservative.
Very refreshing to see a politician who is a) Honest b) Intelligent c) Articulate d) Thoughtful e) Empathic. In today’s world those qualities would seemingly disqualify you as a politician. Which is both very sad, and dispiriting.
Broadly speaking you mean “tory mps”. So - certainly - his are qualities which would bar him from the tory party. Which they did.
Try asking him his views on Israel or other subjects he does not want to talk about
@@NGE0001what are your views??
my views are the same as alastair campbell@@simonchampion3220
@@NGE0001 And you (whatever your name is) would know so much more on the subject? So please enlighten us...
Rory is such a breath of fresh air, honesty, integrity and being truthful..
Totally agree with his advice to Keir Starmer. Stand for what he believes in rather than what the polls are telling him.
Starmer is a spineless nothing, surrounded by viciously incompetent people
?What does Starmer believe in ?
Because that worked so well for Corbyn. Also Starmer would have to believe in something first.
"He's not Caesar, is he?" is the coldest take down of Boris Johnson I've ever heard.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😊
Think he really saw Covid as his chance to prove his Churchill complex and failed pathetically
Ever?
it just encapsulates it all@@sunseeker9581
He's a very naughty boy
A rare individual. Ex politician but he comes with a real sense of reality and integrity. Obviously not going to make a prime minister any time soon. Sadly.
Seems like kind of a useful idiot if you ask me, albeit perhaps with more integrity than the typical.
One born every minute.
Rory is a thoughtful decent and intelligent guy, always worth listening too, Oh the bygone days when the Tory party leadership where made up of decent, rational and competent people, rather than the headbangers that inhabit it today
begone as in when? the privileged elite that forced their ideologies onto the country?
If we don’t recognise and support MPs like Rory, who actually engage with facts we can’t move on and will never fix anything.
Hes a Theresa May supporter. Not sure id ever get on board with that.
@@sunseeker9581 have you heard why he was supportive of her? It was very specifically her seriousness and intent. She took the job as seriously as you’d want her to. In contrast to Bozo and Dave who really didn’t care.
@@gedog77she was utterly hopeless. She gave tax cuts to the rich. She gutted the police. She chased a terrible Brexit deal and gutted our public services. To say she was better than Cameron or Major is debateable to say the least
Ill give Rory credit for his views on foreign policy though. Id pick him instead of Cameron for that role
@@gedog77 Nobody in Westminster care. They're not there to benefit the country, they are there to serve their globalist paymasters.
Indeed if only everyone had voted for Corbyn
I'll boringly keep on saying it till they carry me out feet first - Rory Stewart is the best PM Britain never had. And what an immense humility in those final words of his - he was "part of the problem" whilst in government - contrast that with Braverman's recent self-congatulatory and ad hominem insulting resignation letter.
Ken Clarke and Willie Whitelaw were both decent and capable politicians who also warrant consideration.
Ken Clarke I'll give you, Whitelaw was too subservient to Thatcher and would have spent his time in office trying to imitate her. @@chrisp4170
That just shows the calibre of those around him in the party=total waste of space ALL of them. How on Earth did the UK end up with this shower of s... Probably came from a privatised river.
Going back 30 years, John Smith. Died too soon.
@@chrisp4170 Ken Clarke? Not sure what drugs you're on but please do share.
I have voted Conservative consistently for 50 years. NEVER AGAIN! .....but if Rory was leader...maybe
Me likewise.
what a suprising profile picture for a lifelong tory...
@@lighting7508 the last time a hard right Tory was leader, Michael Howard, I voted Monster Raving Loony Party. Mock if you wish, but David Sutch was a man of integrity ( no wonder he never got elected). I'm not a Tory, I'm a floating voter. Without floating voters there is no democracy, only the dictatorship of the majority. My boat floats just right of centre, or occasionally just left of centre. NEVER hard right or hard left. And my avatar reflects my views...Britain in the EU, support for Ukraine and Palestine
Theresa May only said one thing that I unreservedly agree with: her description of the Tory Party as "The Nasty. Party."
Well said. Some common sense at last
It is ruthless to it's leader. That is good.
I love Rory, so down to earth. He’s great on his The Rest is Politics podcast with Alistair Campbell.
WISH he'd distance himself from '45 minutes' Campbell claim that resulted in killing 1M, maiming more, destabilising Middle East... Albeit the invasion wasn't merely destructive ie it did create something, namely ISIS! And Campbell STILL defends this position.
You mean the one with the too lying scumbags?
One of the things I admire most in a person, is the ability to admit to their own mistakes and have the courage and integrity to consider important matters in a reflective and open-minded way. The more power and influence a person has, the more important that quality should be, but ironically, the rarer it seems to be. Rory Stewart has that quality in spades. And in addition he has energy, intellect, experience , wisdom and is relatable. Our country needs him and it’s a shame there are not more politicians like him.
I agree. Well said.
I think Rory was about to say Boris is a complete ‘charlatan’. Emperor Boris the ‘prancing elephant’. Wonderful!
Not the only ‘C Word’ we can compare Bozo with
Anti-Tory but I like Rory Stewart, sensible Centre Ground politician with real skill
I'd vote for this guy
It would be so lovely if you put on the full event!
Excellent discussion, enlightening.
I'm hoping that Fane Productions decides to put up a video of the 2nd part of this interview where Rory Stewart talks about what his economic policies would have been and would be. THAT is the really interesting part so far as I'm concerned.
Couldn’t agree more about how the romans would have viewed Johnson
I mostly agree, figures like Cicero would have thought of him as a disgrace but actually Caesar was a populist himself who tore down many of Rome's republican traditions so in that sense they are quite alike (although caesar was at least competent)
@@simeonlewis4915 Wholeheartedly agree. I guess we can say then that republican Romans would have despised the man
Imagine he’s won the leadership instead of Johnson, would have been fantastic
Yes, just imagine, he would have made a much better job of pulling the wool over your eyes and the country would still be in the state it is in. For God sake, HE'S A TORY. His only motivation is to make himself and his public school chums richer. Look at his voting record from when he was in office and open your eyes. WAKEY WAKEY!
It would have been much better.
Fantastic is probably a stretch.
@@TheValeyard92 With you on this - the kind of surgery the Tory Party needs to return to sanity and reason is tricky and pretty much impossible to do whilst in office.
He’s a Tory. Check out his voting record. It would have been almost exactly the same. The clue is in the name...TORY
Sadly the electorate want simple slogans repeated by a morally vacant 'fun guy.' They don't warm to intelligence and integrity.
One of the only Tory politicians I respect. Although I also respected Teresa May for the reasons he says
Were you asleep through Brexit?
@@sunseeker9581agree and respect are different things. Have you seen what we have had since?
Rory Stewart isn't cut out for political life, he's burdened with honesty, decency, and integrity
Just like Jeremy Corbyn then, but Stewasr supported all of Thatchers policies, which are the reason energy prices have gone through the roof.
I met and spoke to David Cameron on a work visit years ago when he was leader of the opposition (before he was PM). My overriding impression of him was that he was shiny and stupid, nothing has changed since.
Cameron : spineless with a total lack of initiative .
A friend of mine, who was a Borough Councillor, met Cameron at a hustings event in 2005 and wouldn't shake his hand. He didn't like him or trust him. David Davis he met, liked, and found him interested in issues that affected the fishing industry in Whitby.
The moment the Tory-MP's dropped Rory Stewart as Tory leader... it was downhill from there.
Stewart was never Tory leader.
@@TheAwesomeGingerGuy | He was on the short list to replace Ms May...
Tory MP's voted Rory from that short list to elect Boris the Buffoon.
It hasn't been uphill since they came to power tbh
It was downhill since 2010, and steeply downhill since 2016.
The ousting of Stewart and all of the other semi-decent Tories from the party is just another symptom of the same downward slide.
@@TheValeyard92 A purge.
I love how much he despises Johnson. It should be a litmus test of anyone in public life. Anyone who has a shred of admiration for Johnson should be ostracized.
Why?
@@redrev674because having the slightest admiration for Johnson reveals a complete absence of judgement. It has long been obvious to anyone that Johnson is lower than dog shit.
did you mean castrated?
@@MrTonyHeath since you have nothing between your legs or ears for that matter it won’t affect you!
Rory is not pretentious, Johnson is.
Well done Rory.
Rory is brilliant. Shame he’s not a right wing labour MP.
He should be. He really isn’t a Tory.
He's just another blairite
why? he's an etonian scumbag? we need a more social diverse labour party
@@garyambrosini1427 his views on Iraq make him anything but a Blairite.
It's great that he complimented Teresa May, that he saw her as a real person and appreciated this rare trait nowadays. It's been past due. I've hoped more and more people would do that, especially after those who have followed her.
Rory Stewart is that rare-as-gold thing these days. A considerate, respectful and genuinely likeable Conservative.
A great to and fro from two deep thinkers, and thankfully we can hear their measured analysis. The Rest is Politics is my current favourite podcast, note to self - must hunt out more from Tom Holland.
The Rest is History with Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook is a brilliant podcast. Highly recommend.
oh dear really you think these people are "deep" I can only imagine what incredibly shallow pond you are observing them from.
Will we ever get this in its entirety ?
Im never going to vote tory but if Rory had been leader i would have been tempted. Why are there not people like him in cabinet today?
I could listen to Rory talk all day and then wake up and do the same again
This is so British. Love it
Just beginning to get interesting at the end!
Boris might not be Achilles, but he is a heel 🙃.
No, just a little prick
He was.. he thinks that he's invulnerable.
What an incredibly intelligent and intelligent man Rory is
Wish he was the PM
Talks alot of common sense 👏👏
I'm not a Conservative and never will be but Rory is decent man with principles ,wish he was still an MP ,first time I've ever said that about a tory
i have never voted Tory ,and never will. But this is the only politician i will vote for. Dissappointed that he wont stand for mayor of London.
I’m glad to hear him talk positively about Theresa May.
I thought she was a genuinely good person who cared, who was poorly treated by her own party, until she felt she had to leave.
I have always felt desperately sorry for her.
appalling reaction to Grenfell and 20k police were shown the door.
She did much wrong. But was one of the better PM we have had this century. Brexit would kill many with no supper majority. I blame ardent remainers that refused to accept we were leaving the EU.
If they had worked with her there would likley of not been a major jump to the right. 😊
Cameron once said on camera that he thought Boris Johnson would make a good Prime Minister.
David Cameron probably thought he was A good PM
It would seem then that Cameron was asleep the entire time Johnson was mayor of London .
@@MookMineola And longer than that. When Michael Howard was leader of the conservatives he had to fire Johnson for lying to him. And before that The Times newspaper fired Johnson for lying to The Times readership. So it wasn't that people didn't know what he was like.
Rory would have been a smart choice for prime minister and I still think there is time. That’s it he wants to go down that road. He’s erudite, intelligent, passionate and relatable. I wish more politicians were like him. x
You mean like Jeremy Corbyn?
Great interview, but frustrating at the start how Tom is unwilling to acknowledge Rory’s sincere respect and admiration for Theresa May
I know it's not important in the grand scheme of things, but I wish people would stop banging on about Johnson's knowledge of "the classics". The ability to pull out the occasional quote (and never the obscure quotes, always the easy quotes that are pretty well-known; you don't have to have read, much less understood, any of the texts he ever references to pull out the little nuggets he uses to feign familiarity) is a long way short of "being steeped in the classics". We saw, time and again, him use appropriate-sounding references that actually demonstrated his lack of awareness of the context and source of those references. We see the same with Jacob Rees-Mogg. It's a minor point, except that it's a big part of how these frauds have fooled large numbers of people into thinking they are intelligent.
Bullshit baffles brains
Boris got a 2:1 from Oxford in classics and was a fairly good classicist. Some of his quotations are not widely known.
@@tomharrison1849 I’ve no doubt he bullshitted his way to his degree in much the same way as he has everything else (full disclosure, I did something similar for my own degree so I know this to be possible). His use of classical quotation frequently demonstrates an ignorance of the context (quoting Kipling whilst in Myanmar was the most instant example, but is by no means an isolated example).
@@tomharrison1849 The Covid enquiry is unearthing some of his more memorable quotations, which can be summed up as "I've got the top job now so I don't give a flying f**k what happens to the country and its inhabitants" - and the same goes for the bunch of charlatans he selected for his cabinet
@@chrispalmer7893 The last I heard, Kipling was not a Greek or Latin author. If you knew the actual facts about Johnson, he missed a first by only a little and was devastated. He studied Classics at Eton as a scholar before getting a place at Oxford. Everything he learnt at Eton already gave him a good classical education? What did you study and where?
He should be back in politics asap.
another tory in parliament is quite literally the last thing we need. look at the state of the country.
@@omiethamsia9009feel like you’ve missed Rory’s point entirely.
@@dorgly8951 how so?
@@omiethamsia9009He’s not even a conservative. He’s a centrist. Then again, I guess Wokeism would equivocate Classical Liberalism with Conservatism.
@@avacyn2000 he not only self describes as a tory, but has a public voting record. I recommend you check it out. nothing centrist about it.
I love Rory❤
A decent Tory. A rare thing.
Where can I watch the full EP?
Where is the rest of the interview?
Will the full interview be available somehwere?
My search bar hasn't returned anything, that's why I'm asking. And thank you, peace be with you too @@soulsaver369
where can I watch the full video?
Where is the rest of this?
It's a genuinely terrible reality of British politics that it was possible to replace Theresa May, someone who by any objective or sane metric was an awful Prime Minister and responsible for many catastrophic decisions, with a succession of people who were so bad that she seems almost reasonable in retrospect. Windrush, Grenfell, and the headling rush into a form of Brexit that went way beyond what even the most rabid of leavers was promoting during the referendum campaign, all of these are more than enough to consider her legacy to be one of abject failure (we should probably add in her giving us a very rare example of an election campaign that made a decisive difference to the outcome, all be it a difference that I personally support - Tories losing seats - and was presumably the reverse of her intentions).
20k police went under her watch?
@@bigpants6121 An exhaustive list of her record would be terrifying - we haven’t even mentioned the stormtrooper vans she had patrolling the streets to try and scare immigrants…
A bloke so bitter . Yeah course he speaks well of May. ButNot as well as he tries to Promote himself.
@@chrispalmer7893 Illegal aliens? Who cares if they are scared? It was a stupid policy because it did nothing and took on people who had a legal right to be here.
A lot of noise for such a pointless comment
He’s great I wish he was my mp also he talks common sense
prancing elefant...love it
The only Tory I would ever vote for
As a life long Labour voter , i have very little time for most Conservatives any person who is informed about politics does realise that the tories are not on the side of workers or the poor . However Rory Stewart is someone with integrity and ethics a progressive thinker you get the impression he cares about everyone rare qualities in a tory . There must be many of them who now regret not electing him as there Leader
Everyone ❤s Rory.
I can understand the anger towards Johnson.
The ONLY Conservative PM in my lifetime that made a good impression was Harold McMillan, extremely Old school. The fact he was a butt of so many jokes and was ridiculed, as politicians are, but he told one of his ministers bluntly who had said he would put a stop to a TV programme, he sent a cursory note saying NO YOU WONT! Also there have been some intelligent and interesting Conservative ministers as well. I admire principle, many Conservatives lack that in my experience.
I tend to think that conservatives have become somewhat enamoured of the "disruption innovation" of the digital new world over the last 25 years. They (the new "conservatives") think they can apply the same disruption to the whole of society, break it down and make it better, shiner, newer in the image they want................ sounds a bit maniacal/biblical. 😁😁
The last great Prime-Minister was Sir Alec Douglas-Home.
@@johnnotrealname8168 Great? Surely you jest.
McMillan's greatest attribute was that he wasn't Eden.
@@MrTonyHeath Nay!
One unusual quirk of British politics is ... if you ask most people in the UK what does the workd British or the work Tory mean? Usually no idea! Anyway Tory - and the Irish obviously knew them well: As a political term, Tory was an insult (derived from the Middle Irish word tóraidhe, modern Irish tóraí, meaning "outlaw", "robber", from the Irish word tóir, meaning "pursuit" since outlaws were "pursued men")[9][10] that entered English politics during the Exclusion Bill crisis of 1678-1681.
Achilles was throwing a massive sulk for most of the Iliad, and so was Agamemnon. Over entitled babies. Maybe the description wasn’t so far off😊
The best for me - The Iron Lady - Margaret Thatcher.
Next to her David Cameron
Then Winston Churchill
I dont know of many others before that.
We need the likes of him back into the Conservatives instead of the bunch of populists far right Brexiteers that are running the Conservative party now
Intelligent people of all political persuasions seem to be drawn towards Rory Stewart, which suggests to me that many people value integrity, intelligence, compassion and experience regardless of party colour. If only political parties and the media cottoned onto this fact we might collectively be in a better position.
Is the 'cheat' the choice of opponents in order to boost HN's own rating?
Has the real point of the accusation been missed??
3:31 he’s totally right on this point. Cameron in 2010 should have pulled out.
And Nick Clegg should not have got into bed with the Tories.
Two of the most self satisfied men in the UK.
And your forensic analysis of the points made is?
Fun to watch. If he could be prime minister, I would vote conservative
Caesar was a populist. Caesar was a radical reformer. Caesar completely ignored the Roman constitution (when his radical land reform, though very necessary, wasn’t passing the senate he just ignored it and put it to public vote. In effect cutting the senate out of the legislative role).
He was eventually publically condemned an enemy to the republic when he refused to step down as governor of his provinces by the senate and marched his armies against the republic and the capital, making himself dictator for life.
Boris is no Caesar, but I am not sure Caesar should be a role model to the conservatives.
Should have ranked chancellors in addition to PM's
I think the interviewer fails to see the difference between Rory and Johnson. Rory is genuinely an intellectual, a distinguished professor sort, while Johnson is a dim student who passed his exams by sneaking text books into the exam room. People like Rory are driven by facts, genuine concern for humanity, but because they are genuine, those whom they are supposed to save reject them, preferring megalomaniacs like Johnson. Quite interesting. I look at politicians as the thermometer that measures peoples temperature. If the reading is high, you don't blame the thermometer. It is the medium , in this case the people, which gives the thermometer its reading. To put it in another way, Johnson is the sum total of the small megalomania in voters.
Such a good egg.
I may be wrong, but I think both John Major and Rory Stewart are not big fans of Boris Johnson.
Rory Stewart should join the Green Party - the only party that can rise above petty establishment party politics and produce a manifesto that addresses the national and international problems that does not pander to financial multinational corporate interests
Interesting, although his answer to 'would it have been better if labour had won' absolutely reeked of hindsight bias. yeah...we all know that NOW, but no one did THEN
I also wish he would return to politics…… I’m not a conservative voter but a man of that quality transcends politics…. a statesman is what we need….. I do wonder why he does not return and looking and listening to him I get a strong feeling that he may not be tough enough…..OK he can walk across deserts but I sense emotional frailty. Hope I am wrong
He’s said he would jump at the chance of foreign secretary-which he’s more than adequately experienced for-but a man of his academic and diplomatic calibre can earn a nice crust without the hassle of politics I guess.
Rory's an agreeable and likeable man with some perceptive critique on Tory leader's characters and performance. However Rory's political principles are too much over focussing on squeaky clean personal conduct and never offending 'polite society'. (Where's the evidence of Rory ever going out on a limb to stand by divisive truths which large sections of the public don't want to hear/take responsibility for?).
Hard to disagree with Rory about Boris Johnson effectively being crooked -not saying that is a desirable or even necessary trait at all. However, whatever your view (and I was a Remain voter), also hard to see how Rory himself as PM would ever have got us out of the Brexit impasse...
Whatever your politics, you have to see that leadership is not just about charitably assuming moral equivalence to both sides, diplomatically straddling the fence, polishing your halo ..and in reality, being pushed around by others, never getting anything done.
Rory, for all his qualities as an able, sincere, disciplined and kind human being, too much treads on eggshells not to offend the often overlapping naive delusions of swathes of voters, across the political spectrum. Easy for any of us to be critics, but in reality, Rory's own over sensitive approach would never get anything done if he were PM.
I wonder who is ranking him,prat
Christ, can Holland please stop trying to talk over Stewart?
Rank the current cabinet …most would struggle to score zero.
Not sure how he could back May's hard Brexit. She did not produce a soft Brexit at all. She took us out of Single Market and Customs Union.
All 4 have been a disaster for UK economy.
Rory was probably the best option in the conservative race when he ran to be leader. But to be fair, most of what he's says here is with 20/20 hindsight.
I just don’t think he was well known enough, or had the personality to outshine Johnson at the time, to get the parties backing.
Rory seems to have forgotten about how horrible Teresa May was re the wind rush scandal.
Rory. Would you ever consider running as leader of a party in the future, as I would seriously consider voting for you as my PM
You should listen to his podcast The Rest Is Politics - Alastair Campbell often puts him on the spot about returning to politics. He’d be an amazing Foreign Secretary
Wish the chair would allow him to speak more
Unfortunately the ghastly British press would never let Rory succeed in politics.
He is so right about Johnson: a liar, a cheat, someone who disrespected the rule of law etc. How did anyone ever fall for Johnson's chicanery?
What is this, a crossover episode?
Bojo was not Achilles ,but he was a heel
Interesting his views on Iraq considering his friendship with Alistair Campbell
Intelligent man, it must have been very lonely in government.
Interviewer seems to have high regard for Eton : that sausage machine preserving the class system and producing a never ending stream of self entitled incompetents.
Would he be like this if he was in government though
He doesn’t fight for the white English