Rory Stewart

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Secretary of State for International Development
In office
1 May 2019 – 24 July 2019
Prime MinisterTheresa May
Preceded byPenny Mordaunt
Succeeded byAlok Sharma
Junior ministerial offices
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Water, Forestry, Rural Affairs and Resource Management
In office
12 May 2015 – 17 July 2016
Prime MinisterDavid Cameron
Preceded byDan Rogerson
Succeeded byThérèse Coffey
Further offices held
Chair of the
David Maclean
Succeeded byNeil Hudson
Personal details
Born
Roderick James Nugent Stewart

(1973-01-03) 3 January 1973 (age 51)
British Hong Kong
Political partyIndependent (from 2019)
Other political
affiliations
Spouse
Shoshana Clark
​
(m. 2012)​
Children2
Relatives
Second Lieutenant (on probation)
Unit Black Watch

Roderick James Nugent Stewart

Secretary of State for International Development
from May to July 2019.

Born in

Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service as a diplomat in Indonesia and as British Representative to Montenegro. He left the diplomatic service to undertake a two-year walk across Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, India and Nepal. He later wrote a best-selling book, The Places in Between
, about his experiences.

He subsequently served as Deputy Governor in

Occupational Hazards or The Prince of the Marshes. In 2005, he moved to Kabul to establish and run the Turquoise Mountain Foundation. He was the Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights and the director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University
from 2008 to 2010.

In 2010, Stewart was elected to the

2019 leadership contest. His campaign was defined by his unorthodox use of social media and opposition to a no-deal Brexit. He stated at the beginning of his campaign that he would not serve under Boris Johnson.[3]
When Johnson became Prime Minister in July 2019, Stewart resigned from the cabinet.

On 3 September 2019, Stewart had the Conservative Whip removed after voting to back a motion paving the way for a law seeking to delay the UK's exit date from the European Union.[4] On 3 October 2019, Stewart announced he had resigned from the Conservative Party and that he would stand down as an MP at the next general election. He initially announced that he would stand as an independent candidate in the 2021 London mayoral election but withdrew on 6 May 2020 on the grounds of the election being postponed on account of COVID-19. His career in politics is described in his bestselling memoir Politics On The Edge (published in the US as How Not To Be a Politician).[5]

Stewart was the President of GiveDirectly from 2022 to 2023, and was a visiting fellow at Yale Jackson from 2020 to 2022, teaching politics and international relations.[6] In March 2022, Stewart and Alastair Campbell launched The Rest Is Politics, which has topped politics podcast ratings in the UK most weeks.[7][8]

Early life and education

Stewart was born in

Jewish.[11] His younger sister has Down syndrome.[12]

Stewart spent his early years in

Prince Harry during the summer.[10] He attended a single meeting of the Bullingdon Club[19] before resigning after witnessing the behaviour of other members.[13]

Diplomatic career

Indonesia and Montenegro

After graduating, Stewart joined the

Foreign Office.[20] In Indonesia, he served as the Political & Economic Second Secretary in the British embassy in Jakarta from 1997 to 1999, during the Asian Financial Crisis and the fall of Suharto, working on issues related to East Timor independence. He was appointed at the age of 26 as the British Representative to Montenegro in the wake of the Kosovo campaign.[10]

Some have suggested that Stewart was an employee of the

Oxford University.[10][21] Stewart has said that his career progression and his father's work for MI6 might "give the appearance" that he worked for MI6,[22] but says he did not work for MI6 while a diplomat.[21] Stewart has acknowledged that due to the Official Secrets Act, even if he had worked for MI6, he would not be able to admit it.[23]

Iraq

After the

Civil-Military Co-operation (CIMIC) compound in Al Amarah, and in May 2004 was in command of his compound in Nasiriyah when it was besieged by Sadrist Movement militia.[10] He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his services during this period.[25] While Stewart initially supported the Iraq War, the international coalition's inability to achieve a more humane, prosperous state led him in retrospect to believe the invasion had been a mistake.[26]

Books and media

Travel and travel writing

Stewart lecturing in 2008

In 2000, Stewart took leave from the

Foreign Office to walk across Asia. This journey on foot involved Stewart walking for more than eighteen months, across much of Iran, Pakistan, and the Indian and Nepali Himalayas in 2000 and 2001, finishing with a 36-day solo walk across Afghanistan in the early months of 2002. He typically walked 20–25 miles a day, staying in village houses every night. He has also walked across sections of Western New Guinea[27] and much of the United Kingdom. Stewart was awarded the Royal Scottish Geographical Society's Livingstone medal in 2009 "in recognition of his work in Afghanistan and his travel writing, and for his distinguished contribution to geography".[28] His subsequent travel in the United Kingdom, and his writing on geography, was recognised by the Royal Geographical Society, which awarded him the Ness Award in 2018.[29]

His book describing his walk across Afghanistan, The Places in Between, was a New York Times bestseller. The Places in Between[30][31] was named by The New York Times as a "flat-out masterpiece" and listed as one of its 10 notable books of 2006.[10] It won the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize,[32] the Spirit of Scotland award,[33] and the Premio de Literatura de Viaje Caminos del Cid.[33] It was short-listed for a Scottish Arts Council prize,[34] the Guardian First Book Award[30] and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.[30] The book was adapted into a radio play by Benjamin Yeoh broadcast in 2007 on BBC Radio 4.[35]

According to the

Daily Telegraph, Brad Pitt bought the rights to make a film about Stewart in 2008, with Orlando Bloom tipped to play the leading role.[36]

His book about his 1,000-mile walk in the borderlands separating England and Scotland, also known as the Scottish Marches (in part with his father) – The Marches: Border Walks With My Father – became a Sunday Times top ten bestseller.[37][38] The Marches was long listed for the Orwell Prize, won the Hunter Davies Lakeland Book of the Year,[39] and was a Waterstones Book of the Month.[40]

He has also written about theory and practice of travel writings in prefaces to Wilfred Thesiger's Arabian Sands,[41] Charles Doughty's Arabia Deserta,[42] and Robert Byron's The Road to Oxiana.[43]

Writing on politics and international affairs

Stewart's book,

Occupational Hazards: My Time Governing in Iraq, describes his reflections on the intervention in Iraq, based on his experiences as the Deputy Governorate Co-ordinator.[10] The New York Times critic William Grimes commented that for him the "real value of the new book is Mr. Stewart's sobering picture of the difficulties involved in creating a coherent Iraqi state based on the rule of law".[44]
The book was the subject of a play at the Hampstead Theatre, written by Stephen Brown.[45]

Stewart's book on International Intervention Can Intervention Work?, co-authored with

W.W. Norton as part of the Amnesty International Global Ethics Series in 2011.[46] It distilled Stewart's reflections on the lessons of the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan
for the practice of International Intervention.

Stewart has also written longer essays on 1920s

ISIS (for the New York Review of Books),[47] on West Papua, counterinsurgency theory and early modern Aleppo (for the London Review of Books),[48] on the politics of the centre ground (for the New Statesman), and on Iran and Afghanistan (for Prospect magazine). He has frequently appeared on television and radio, including BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.[49]

In September 2023 Stewart published

Member of Parliament, describes his experiences as an MP, as a junior and then a senior minister, and his Conservative leadership bid. It was an instant Number One Sunday Times bestseller in the UK. [50]

He was a columnist for The New York Times,[51] and also for his local constituency newspaper, the Cumberland and Westmorland Herald, contributing a monthly column.[52]

Television

In January 2010, Stewart presented the BBC Two documentary miniseries The Legacy of Lawrence of Arabia.[53]

In 2012, he wrote and presented the BBC's Afghanistan: The Great Game – A Personal View by Rory Stewart, a documentary in two parts telling the story of foreign intervention by Britain, Russia and the United States in Afghanistan from the 19th century to the present day, which aired on BBC Two and which won a Scottish BAFTA.[54]

In 2014, Stewart wrote and presented a two-part documentary on

Northumbria and Strathclyde and the Debatable Lands of the Scottish Marches on the Anglo-Scottish border.[55] Its full title was Border Country: The Story of Britain's Lost Middleland and it investigated the rift created by Hadrian's Wall and the issues of identity and culture in a region divided by the fabricated border.[55]

Podcasts

In March 2022, Stewart launched a podcast, The Rest Is Politics, with the former Labour Party communications director Alastair Campbell. The pair discuss current political news stories.[56]

Stewart also hosted the BBC Radio 4 Podcast The Long History Of Argument where he discussed the history of debates.[57]

Academic, nonprofit, and advisory work

Non-profit work

In late 2005, Stewart set up the

King Charles III, and Hamid Karzai.[58] For this role he relocated to Kabul for the next three years, working to restore historic buildings in its old city, managing its finances, installing water supply, electricity, and establishing a clinic, a school and an institute for traditional crafts.[10] Stewart stepped down as executive chairman of the Turquoise Mountain Foundation in May 2010.[59] Stewart also served for a time on the board of governors of the International Development Research Centre of Canada.[60]

In 2021 Stewart and his family moved to Jordan for two years to work for the Turquoise Mountain Foundation, setting up a project to restore a Roman site near the Golan Heights to create employment in the area. During this time, Stewart would also be travelling to Yale University for lecture commitments.[12]

In August 2022, GiveDirectly announced that Stewart would be president of the organization.[61][62]

Academic and policy work

In July 2008, Stewart was appointed as to the faculty of the

Jackson Institute in 2020.[64]

Stewart has frequently been called on to provide advice on

Ted Talk, that a heavy American military footprint would be counterproductive, alienating Afghans, and that it would be better to reduce the size of the American Army in Afghanistan. This smaller force, he suggested, would be able to handle al-Qaeda, while helping achieve the West's long-term objectives in the country.[66] His ideas were rejected by senators, including future Secretary of State John Kerry.[66] He also briefed Gordon Brown and David Miliband.[67]

In September 2020, he became a fellow at

undergraduate and graduate students.[68][69]

In January 2024 he became the inaugural Brady Johnson professor of the practice of Grand Strategy at Yale University's Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs[70]

On 7 February 2024, The Daily Telegraph reported that Stewart had emerged as a possible candidate in the 2024 University of Oxford Chancellor election.[71]

Member of Parliament

Official portrait, 2015

Penrith and The Border

Stewart had considered a parliamentary career in the past but only decided to stand when, in the aftermath of the

Penrith and the Border from 11,241 to 19,894, the highest majority since the seat was created.[79] In the 2017 general election, he received 60.4% of the vote and saw his majority cut to 15,910.[80][81]

In July 2010, Stewart apologised after blogging about his constituents using

Scottish Sun as saying that "some areas around here are pretty primitive, people holding up their trousers with bits of twine".[82] He later said that he was making the point that Cumbria's beauty hides its "pockets of poverty".[83] A light-hearted Guardian article, "In praise of ... binder twine", whilst acknowledging the "serious effort" Stewart had made by "walking hundreds of miles" to get to know his constituency, concluded that he had simply underestimated the importance of the "ubiquitous and indispensable" twine to the rural community.[84]

Stewart was successful in securing the

A66 road,[91] and for flood defence funding for Cumbria.[92]

National roles and influence before becoming a Minister

Upon joining the

APPG for Rural Services.[98] He was elected chair of the Defence Select Committee
in May 2014. He left these positions upon his appointment as environment minister.

His speech about hedgehogs in Parliament in 2015 was named by The Times and The Daily Telegraph as the best parliamentary speech of 2015 and described by the deputy speaker as "one of the best speeches [she] had ever heard in Parliament".[99][100][101]

Stewart led the first backbench motion for expanding

broadband and mobile coverage, securing what was then the largest number of cross-party endorsements for a backbench motion.[102] In a report published in 2011, Stewart won support from the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee in calling for mobile phone companies to be forced to provide coverage to 98% of the population,[103] and in 2012, his campaign achieved its goal when regulator Ofcom announced its plans for the auction of fourth generation (4G) bandwidth for mobile phone services.[104] In March 2018, Ofcom announced that the 98% target had been met.[105]

In January 2014, Stewart was asked by

veterans become criminal offenders after returning to civilian life.[106] The review looked at ways in which support and prevention for veterans in the justice system can be improved.[107] Following his election to Chairman of the Defence Select Committee, Stewart handed over the lead for the review to Stephen Phillips.[108]

In May 2014, Stewart was elected by MPs from all parties as chairman of the

Russian aggression in Ukraine.[112] The committee also argued that Britain's commitments to Iraq and Syria were "strikingly modest" and that more should be done.[113] Under Stewart's chairmanship, the committee produced a report in favour of the proposals for a Service Complaints Ombudsman and also secured an amendment extending the powers of the Ombudsman.[114]

In July 2014, Stewart launched

Sir Ranulph Fiennes, mountaineers Alan Hinkes and Doug Scott, and historians Simon Schama and David Starkey.[118]
Approximately 100,000 stones were laid on the cairn, many with personal messages.

Ministerial positions

Environment minister

Stewart pictured with the Greek politician Nikos Xydakis in September 2016

Following the Conservatives' return with an outright majority at the 2015 general election, Stewart was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), with responsibilities including the natural environment, national parks, floods and water, resource and environmental management, rural affairs, lead responsibility for the Environment Agency, Natural England and the Forestry Commission, and acting as the secretary of state's deputy on the Environment Council.[119]

In July 2015, in his capacity as resource minister, he announced a review into the regulatory and enforcement barriers to growth and innovation in the waste sector.[120] Stewart as 'floods minister' joined the National Flood Resilience Review, formed in 2016 and chaired by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Oliver Letwin.[121] Stewart initiated the Cumbria Floods Partnership in response to Storm Desmond, with a focus on long-term flood defence.[122] The House of Commons cross-party Environment Audit Committee criticised the statement by Stewart that the extra £700m for flood defence was the result of a "political calculation" and that it might not be spent according to the strict value-for-money criteria currently used.[123]

As environment minister, he introduced the 5 pence a bag plastic bag tax for

phase out lightweight plastic bags), expected to reduce the use of personal bags take from supermarkets by up to 80%[124] (in fact, usage reduced in England by 85%);[125] and he was responsible for producing the first draft of the 25-year environment plan in which he emphasised, alongside biodiversity and ecosystems, the importance of human cultural features in the landscape, and particularly the conservation of small family sheep farms.[126] As Minister responsible for the national parks, Stewart secured five years of increased funding for national parks and AONBs.[127] He also ensured the extension of the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales National Park and supported the UNESCO World Heritage bid for the Lake District.[128]

As floods minister, Stewart oversaw the government's response to the

A591 and the bridge at Pooley Bridge in the Lake District.[130]

Minister of International Development: Middle East and Asia

After

Prachanda the Prime Minister of Nepal, Ashraf Ghani the President of Afghanistan, and Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi.[132]

Minister of Foreign Office and International Development: Africa

Official parliamentary portrait, 2017

In 2017, Stewart was promoted to a joint position as a

Democratic Republic of Congo,[138] President Lungu of Zambia,[139] President Magufuli of Tanzania,[140] President Kenyatta of Kenya, and President Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe.[141] In this role, Stewart was the driving force behind the British Government's new Africa strategy and pushed for more resources to go into the Foreign Office network in Africa. His most notable trip was to Zimbabwe where he was the first foreign dignitary to be received by President Mnangagwa.[142] His Zimbabwe policy pressed for political reform, and free and fair elections.[143]

Prisons and probations minister

Stewart at the London Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference in 2018

Stewart was appointed

Minister of State for Prisons with responsibility for prisons and probation in England and Wales in January 2018.[144] He was appointed in the aftermath of a highly critical leaked report on the state of HMP Liverpool, in which the inspector described it as the "worst prison he had ever seen" with piles of rubbish, rats, soaring violence and drug use and poor health provision.[145] Stewart immediately visited the prison and, testifying before the Justice Select Committee, announced his determination to clean up prisons in England and Wales.[146] This advocacy of a "back to basics" approach was recorded in The Guardian, with Stewart writing an opinion piece entitled "I strongly believe we can improve our prisons and make progress".[147]

In April 2018, Stewart took the

Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Private Member's Bill through the House of Commons, on behalf of the government, which doubled the maximum sentences for those who attack emergency services personnel and introduced sexual assault as an aggravating factor in sentencing.[148]

In August 2018, during an interview with BBC Breakfast, Stewart announced the launch of the Ten Prisons Project. He argued that, despite five years of continuous rise in violence in prisons, it was possible to turn it around. Stewart argued that it could be done through improving perimeter gate security and by improving training and support of staff. The key, he said, was to get the basics right. He undertook to create a new prison officer handbook and a new course at the training college for prison officers. Stewart pledged, in the same interview, that he would resign if this project was not successful within the next 12 months.[149] The twelve months statistics showed a continuing positive trend when, in August 2019, the results from the Ten Prisons Project were published. These showed a 16% drop in the rate of assaults, and a 17% drop in the number of assaults, almost 10% greater than the national trend. At the same time, the percentage of positive results from random mandatory drug tests dropped by 50%.[150]

Secretary of State for International Development

In May 2019, Stewart was promoted to the cabinet after the dismissal of Gavin Williamson, replacing the new Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt in the Department for International Development. The position included full membership of the UK Cabinet, and the National Security Council. It also saw Stewart serve as a governor of the World Bank, the African Development Bank, and the Caribbean Development Bank. He was also an alternative governor to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.[151]

Stewart's three priorities as

Secretary of State for International Development were to double the UK government's international investment in the environment and in climate change, to radically increase the number of UK development staff on the ground (developing language and area expertise), and to focus on the response to Ebola. He was able within a month of taking up the role to enshrine these priorities in his new single departmental plan.[152] He committed in the House of Commons 'to double spending on climate change prevention because the world faced a "climate cataclysm" and double "the effort that the department puts into that issue".[153]

Concerned about the increase in Ebola cases in the

Mark Green and flew to Goma, Beni and Butembo in Eastern DRC to visit the outbreak sites,[155] and then to Kinshasa where he met with President Tshisekedi.[citation needed
]

Other international visits took Stewart to environmental programs in Kenya (from wind turbine projects in Lake Turkana in the north to Mangrove Protection in Lamu on the east coast, and UK aid funded programmes in Jordan (holding meetings with Prime Minister Omar Razzaz).[156]

Stewart felt that he could not serve under his fellow Old Etonian Boris Johnson, who was elected Prime Minister after the resignation of Theresa May, and so resigned from cabinet on 24 July 2019.[13][157]

Conservative Party leadership election

Stewart was a candidate in the

2019 Conservative leadership election, announcing his intention to stand in an interview in The Times.[158][159] His candidacy was not initially taken seriously, with a piece in the New Statesman's diary stating that he had a single supporter: himself.[160] As The Guardian noted: "his campaign benefited at the start from low expectations, and for days leading up to the first vote his tally of supporters was in single figures. When he met the threshold he looked like the insurgent because so many had assumed he would be knocked out".[161]

Adopting an unconventional campaigning style, Stewart did not focus his attention on Westminster but, instead, went on a series of filmed walkabouts (dubbed 'RoryWalks'), which saw him take to the streets of Britain, talking to voters, to understand their priorities and concerns. These were then uploaded onto social media, with significant success.[162]

On 29 May, Stewart admitted he had smoked

wedding in Iran.[163] Several other candidates admitted to previous illegal drug use during the election.[164]

On 1 June, Kenneth Clarke was announced as one of Stewart's MP backers, with other supporters including David Lidington, David Gauke, Nicholas Soames, Tobias Ellwood, Gillian Keegan and Victoria Prentis.[165] Against expectations, on 13 June he made it through the first parliamentary ballot, gaining 19 votes, two more than the elimination threshold.[166] On 16 June, he appeared, as one of the six remaining candidates, in a televised debate on Channel 4.[167] He was widely judged to have won the debate, with Michael Deacon writing in The Daily Telegraph that "If you were to judge it by the response of the studio audience, Channel 4's debate had only one winner. Rory Stewart got more rounds of applause than any other candidate – and, at the end, when each took turns to sum up, he was the only candidate to get a round of applause at all".[168]

On 18 June 2019, he also made it through the second parliamentary ballot, with 37 votes from a threshold of 33, surpassing Home Secretary Sajid Javid by four votes; however, following a lacklustre performance in that evening's BBC debate, he polled just 27 votes in the next day's ballot and was eliminated as the last-placed candidate.[169][170] It was revealed on the same day that Stewart was in talks with Michael Gove to stop Boris Johnson becoming Prime Minister.[171] However, in his podcast with co-host Alastair Campbell, Stewart claimed that Gove was intentionally wasting his time in order to better position Boris Johnson in the leadership race.[172]

Independent politician

Sitting as an independent and resignation

Main article:
September 2019 suspension of rebel Conservative MPs

On 3 September 2019, Stewart and 20 other Conservative MPs voted in favour of MPs taking control of the order paper, as the first step to table a bill to stop a no-deal Brexit, in the process rebelling against the Government Whip.[173] It had been widely reported in the media that any such action would lead to a withdrawal of the Conservative whip, and all 21 were told that they had lost it,[174] expelling them as Conservative MPs and requiring them to sit as independents.[175][176] Stewart stated that he was informed of this decision by text message, while collecting his GQ Politician of the Year Award.[177]

At an event on 3 October, Stewart announced he had resigned from the Conservative Party and would stand down as an MP at the

Penrith and The Border for the last ten years, so it is with sadness that I am announcing that I will be standing down."[178]

London mayoral candidate

In October 2019, Stewart announced that he was to stand as an independent in the

Shaun Bailey.[179] He planned during his candidacy to walk through each of the 32 London boroughs.[13] In November 2019, he appeared on BBC One's Have I Got News for You.[180] Labelled by the Scottish publication, The National, as a "bizarre campaign trick", in February 2020, as a part of his campaign, he sought invitations from "Londoners to invite him into their homes and let him stay the night".[181] The objective, he tweeted was for them to "show me the city through their eyes. I want to know your concerns and your ideas."[182] By 14 February, The Guardian tweeted, "2,000 Londoners [had taken] up Rory Stewart's offer".[183]

Stewart's use of social media later became the subject of controversy when, at a talk at the Emmanuel Centre, in the course of discussing his use of social media during the contest, he referred to an encounter in Brick Lane with three "sort of minor gangsters". Two of the men were members of an Irish rap group, Hare Squead.[184] This drew accusations of racism from many politicians, including Dawn Butler, David Lammy and Diane Abbott.[185] Stewart apologised the next day, tweeting "I am very sorry towards the guys and towards everyone else. I was wrong".[186]

Initially scheduled to be held in 2020, the mayoral election was postponed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[187] On 6 May 2020, Stewart ended his mayoralty bid, saying he could not maintain a campaign for another year against the large budgets of the Labour and Conservative campaigns.[188] He stated the COVID-19 pandemic had made it "impossible" to campaign and that he could not ask his unpaid volunteers to continue in their roles for another year.[189]

Political views

Stewart has described himself as a

one-nation conservative and firm ally of former Prime Minister, Theresa May. He is often aligned with the moderate wing of the Conservative Party and has expressed distaste towards subsequent Prime Ministers, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, although has remained generally supportive of Rishi Sunak's tenure.[191]

As an MP, Stewart expressed his support for fox hunting, and was marked as a "For" voter to keep the traditional sport if it were voted on. He has been seen at hunt meets in his local area.[192] He said, "I'm in favour. It's an important cultural tradition in Cumbria going back many hundreds of years, and hunts like Blencathra and Ullswater are a very important part of rural tradition. It's not something I've ever done myself but it's something I think people should have the right to do."[193]

Brexit

Stewart supported remain in the 2016 referendum on the UK's continued membership of the European Union.[194] Following the result of the referendum, he tried to argue for what he called a "sensible, moderate deal"[195] that could act as a compromise between Remain and Leave voters. He argued that although the referendum made it necessary to leave the EU, Britain should seek "to stay very close to Europe diplomatically and politically and economically".[196] He was initially a prominent advocate for the Brexit withdrawal agreement negotiated by the prime minister Theresa May, arguing that the agreement respects the result of the referendum "by leaving EU political institutions...and by taking back control over immigration" while also addressing "the concerns of the more than 16 million who voted remain" and protecting the British economy.[197][198][161]

He then became an advocate for the UK remaining in a

Customs Union with the European Union, and voted with the Labour Party for a Customs Union amendment in the House of Commons. He continued to argue, following that defeat, that following the outcome of the referendum "the Customs Union option was the best available – the only way of achieving the substantial separation desired by Brexit voters while remaining close to the EU diplomatically and economically."[199] He proposed, however, following the failure of parliament to reach any positive agreement – that the issue could be passed to a citizens' assembly, chaired by the Archbishop of Canterbury to find a compromise on Brexit.[200]

Although he accepted the result of the Brexit referendum,[201] he remained opposed to the idea of a no-deal Brexit – even as a bargaining position in the negotiation with the EU. He voted against a no-deal Brexit in parliament. He was formally stripped of the Conservative whip, and expelled from the Conservative Party after voting with 21 Conservative colleagues to try to block a no-deal Brexit.[202]

Personal life

In 2012, Stewart married American Shoshana Clark, a former employee.[203][204] Their first child, a son, was born in November 2014, whom Stewart delivered in the absence of medical assistance.[205] Their second son was born in April 2017.[206][207][13]

Stewart lives in South Kensington, London[13][208][209] as well as Dufton, Cumbria.[210] He is a member of the Athenaeum Club and the Special Forces Club.[19] He is said to be proficient in 11 languages, though he claims to be 'mediocre' in several of them.[13] From 2021 to 2023 Stewart and his family lived in Jordan while he worked on a Turquoise Mountain Foundation project.[12]

Awards and honours

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