We've compiled a playlist of the best Rory Stewart videos on KZfaq. Clips include the former Conservative leadership candidate being frank about his opinion of Boris Johnson, and discussing his view of UK foreign policy. Watch here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l8-RmZCG2rjWZYE.html

Rory Stewart is such a loss to politics. The country would be in a much better place if he had become Prime Minister. Imagine anyone thinking Johnson was a more suitable candidate to be PM. The same bunch of cretins now likely to vote in the appalling Liz Truss 😡

Rory Stewart is a gift egregiously squandered by the Tories.

It's pretty easy to see why he didn't last long in the modern Tory party!

I am not a Tory voter and never will be, but there is no comparison to this decent man of integrity to Johnson who has dragged parliamentary standards into the gutter with habitual lies, corruption and unbelievable sleaze. The government condoned his actions and propped him up they are a disgrace and need to go. I think things would have been different under Rory.

The best Prime Minsiter/Tory leader we never had.

Rory is such a great guy. Can you imagine how different Britain would be had he won in 2019? Now they would be sunny uplands

Top bloke. Always great honest analysis.

Wonderful conversation, thanks!

Rory, while I broadly empathise with the diverse ethic diversity in the current Tory government, I have to agree with your interviewer that their backgrounds are not so diverse, and certainly having a cabinet made up of extreme right wing millionaires is not diverse on it’s outlook. Johnson’s night of the long knives, as you suffered, has removed middle ground thinkers from the room and therefore it becomes a monoculture of rich kids egging each other on to please their leader.

Amen to truth and reality. Sorely missed 🙌

ROry Stewart should have been Prime Minister.

Very interesting observation about candidates for the Conservative leadership ALL OF WHOM SEMED TO ME TO BE TAINTED AND THEREFORE LACKING IN ANY CREDIBILITY BEFORE EVEN STARTING.

I don't like Tories but Rory I think is one of the better ones.

He epitomizes 'decency'... would make a great PM!!

I also agree with the comment that the title of this KZfaq video is misleading and goes against exactly what Rory was talking about - but good interview and good questions

The Brexit campaign shows why it would be much harder for Labour to have a leader from a minority background. Whereas Labour and its supporters would not ostensibly exploit xenophobia and racism against a Tory from an ethnic minority, the reverse is not true. Similarly, it is easier for a politician from an ethnic minority to be very right wing and even hostile towards ethnic minorities. A liberal Conservative home secretary from an Indian or other minority background would have met extra hostility from in the media and from Tory right-wingers.

So here is the irony. A debating chamber was always a problem precisely because it is a performance where judges will award a win to one side or the other. In a competitive debate no-one is trying to sort a problem out and as Rory points out Parliament had now become exactly that.

that was great Rachel. i love how you interview and know what you're talking about. i really enjoyed it. i'll watch you again. i feel like i know a bit more.

I'm beginning to think that ole Rory baby cannot possibly be a tory? He's - way - too - nice??!!

It's astonishing that this brilliant man was rejected by the Tory Party, and that they preferred what they did simply reemphasized why I'll probably never vote for them.

Despite being left of centre I can relate to what Rory Stuart is saying. I think he was the anti Boris Johnston candidate.

Losing mr Stewart, mrs Soubry and Clark as Conservative influenceer/member is a pity for british politics.

Enjoyable conversation. What interests and, to some extent, surprises me is that so many of those in the Conservative Party who have come from humbler backgrounds have turned out to be such right-wing politicians.

I find Rory Stewart a very interesting person it is a shame he did not become Priminister I do not do social media His new radio series is very instruactive Please publish more of his output or does he have a podcast Thankyou

He does not fit into the "modern" tory party. You can come to your own conclusions from that fact...

I feel this is Rory at his best.

There may be hope for the tories

Rory For PM.

Not being British (Dutch), is there a way I could get access to the series of programmes where Rory Stewart talks about the current state of argument? I genuinely respect his take on things and would love to listen to what he has to say on the topic.

I absolutely love to hear the reasoning of Rory even though I'm very very far away from being a Tory. That said regardless of the cultural backgrounds of the diverse pool of Conservative leadership talent every single diverse offering is so rightwing that they're success is to the detriment of there cultural backgrounds. This isn't new to the conservative party as the iron lady didn't create any policy to better the prosperity of British women or woman's equality beyond being a figurehead for the right. Like Margaret Thatcher this Conservative diversity serves the needs of a media top trumps way more than it serves the diversity of contemporary Britain. Which is as much of a shame as it may seem cynical.

One good start would be to remove anonymity, people are very brave when nobody knows who they are. There's a lot of talk around"social media responsibility" before that should come personal responsibility, Twitter, Facebook and others are absolutely brilliant for social censorship. Doing the job of government for them. They wouldn't need beer halls now, just a darkened room and a computer!

The more I see of Rory Stewart the more I respect him. Absolutely love his podcast with Alistair Campbell, The Rest Is Politics. They teach you so articulately about things as an ordinary member of the public you may not understand, as they chit chat, disagree occasionally but always allow the other to have their opinion with respect. It’s funny too. I’m not a person who gives praise readily but this podcast format is original and different. Love the little snippets of gossip they give away about people they’ve worked with etc… Long may it continue 🙏

Very interesting conversation 👍

Good conversation but the title is not representative of the content and seems to empower the hatred that he's going against.

Probably right and what has Rory Stewart ever done for the good people of the UK while taking their tax money?

I’ve got “whatever it is 143,000” Twitter followers Accurate in his portrayed ambivalence.

One of the worst and most insidious things to have happened, in recent years, with regard to debate/discussion/argument, is the automatic assigning of the label "hater(s)" to anybody who even slightly disagrees! I hate that expression! 😉😉

Propertional representation is such a great thing to enrich debate. I really enjoy learning about your view on debate, Rory Steward. In addition, I just learned a lot from Chris Voss about negotiation and I find both encouraging to not shy away from an argument but embrace it to learn more about the other person and their view.

Yo everyone watching like the video for the algorithm Rory Stewart is a national treasure

Spot on analysis by Rory. As a foreigner following the UK politics and feel that politics is all about rhetoric and word sallad, mainly blaiming others than to have a clear program and make progress. It's just a game to keep and widen the economical and political power divide.

(Passionlessness and stupidity are not mutually exclusive. Nor hipness.)

Great to hear a decent analysis of the Johnsonian weakness as a classicist and how the Romans would have regarded him. No depth indeed

An excellent interview by both parties. Sadly Rory Stewart is not blessed with film star looks and I am sure this was a feature of peoples reaction to him. But he does speak rather well and horror of horrors actually admits to errors and seems truthful in his approach., he is just what our country desperately needs in this age of extremes.

Our Global trade is down (when others are up); We have the lowest growth of the G20 (except Russia - understandably): Illegal immigration is up: There is a complete mess at our ports with massive queues at dover, other ports and airports: Highest inflation in decades: Business has significant increased bureaucracy and costs: The NHS, haulage, hospitality, farming, food processing and other sectors have a staff shortage crisis: Longest waiting lists since NHS was established: More police forces in special measures than ever before: Longest times for police to attend crime scenes: Fewer crimes being solved: Rail workers, postal workers, barristers and others are on strike: Very little "levelling up" has occurred - still more investment in London than any other region: No new hospitals have been built: The climate change debate has been sidelined in the Tory leadership debate; Control of our "sovereignty" has brought in unprecedented levels of sleaze, lies, corruption and total mistrust of politicians: - Very much Broken Britain! So which of the "big calls" has BJ got right that has improved our lives? which aspects of Brexit have improved our lives? Where is government? - asleep at the wheel!

To get to the top of an organisation you have to clothe yourself in and beleieve in its culture and values. It doesn't matter about the values they were brought up with. You have to abandon your true self to get to the top.

There may be racial diversity in the Tory leadership race, but there sure ain't social or regional diversity. One Northerner. (Sunak in Richmond hardly counts.) One person with a genuinely working class background. Both final contenders grads of Oxford. (Sunak, like Patel, is from a higher caste family, with plenty of cultural capital.) One of Rory's limitations is his failure to assign importance to cultural capital. My paternal Great Grandparents would have been multi-millionaires. My Grandfather was destroyed mentally and emotionally by the Great War and couldn't run the family firm, which got sold off, along with a lot of property the family owned. But my father, having started life as a factory hand, ended up as a manager in a big insurance company. I then went to Cambridge. My children are high earners and have have rapid rises in their careers. Cultural capital. Yet I could claim I had a working class background as my father was a factory worker when I was born. Bunter clearly misread all of Classical history. It's like reading Gibbon and choosing to model yourself on the worst Emperors. Silly, as they usually ended up being murdered by their own soldiers or whomever, often after a remarkably - if predictably - short reign. The real problem is that the Tory Party voted him in, despite his appalling disloyalty to Mrs May, to say nothing of his record of lying, incompetence and superficiality, and a complete absence of the qualities needed by a successful PM.

Rory is too sound to be a politician, certainly a tory one anyway.

What Rory is speaking to when he makes the point that politics and indeed parliament is no longer about discourse but performance for people who are not present...in psychological terms that is called triangulation, where people play to the performance that garners the greatest reaction, rather than seeking a meaningful response. It's one of the prime traits of narcism; seeking to accrue attention, and manipulate that attention and use it as influence, rather than relationship.

Know Georgism.. As a human, why are you born at a disadvantage, to those who came before? We could change this. Georgism.

Hard to agree with the irrational for example Trump, Boris, and Farage.

I’m so glad that Boris FINALLY god rid of that monster Tobias Elwood! The nation was just crying out for him to go!

Still #readyforrory

The Etonian Gremlin, rejoice!

I like Rory. He looks like a quintessential Englishman on Family Guy though…

ALL Parties are registered for profit businesses. As are most of not all MP's. They are indeed ALL actors. I know I have posted this before but I shall continue to until I can see enough likes and replies to be sure that a fair number of people have read it. It IS vital information. Tbh, at least one or two channels should have read and checked the info by now and have made a video. As they should about the committee of 300 (hardly any have). WHY haven't they? "When a Government Becomes a Corporation - What You Need To Know " (profit seeking business - not to represent the people and undoubtedly ALL countries not only England) on 'The Bridge' website. Since Elizabeth I, which I didn't know until yesterday. Via a less censored search engine of course. If I name the two I use the comment won't post. One starts 'Yan' and the other 'Bin'. Left wing. Right wing. Same banker family vulture in the middle along with their royal relatives and politician family members. Seems it always has been since the Romans, when I think about it, but definitely Elizabeth I 😖 I knew that the government UK Ltd was registered as a business at Companies House on the 29th June 2005 now applied for strike off after it appears to have been used to asset strip us, with all departments and buildings being assigned to commercial corporations (such as EDF, Walmart etc) abroad and registered at Dun and Bradstreet USA, not the branch in England. Possibly some are registered in other countries and tax havens. Many have been renamed or are now 'owned' by another corporation, which is owned by another, creating layers to make it difficult to find the actual (fraudulent) 'owners' . The government UK Ltd no longer trades and has not produced accounts recently as legally required to Companies House. Until around four months ago it was owned by Laird James Coutts (same spelling as the royal bank) as sole 'owner' and might still be (same spelling as in the Royal Bank). The name of the 'owner' seems to now be hidden from public view. The first application to strike off from Companies House was two or three years ago when there was a 'rumour' it was to be assigned to a the Crown Corporation - before that also was assigned yet again to another. However, due to an objection the strike off was postponed. At the moment you can still see the registration at Companies House. You can see the application for strike of in the London Gazette. You can see the accounts from previous years by searching "accounts of The Government UK Ltd Companies House". At least you can at the time of writing. All departments, various NHS, local authorities, courts, police and buildings either listed at Dun and Bradstreet USA, not the branch in England, or at Companies House along with the buildings. Asset stripped! look it up. Further, Queen Elizabeth II was registered dead under her full names and titles in early 2017 on the Government Registry for deaths. After I posted it a few times it was shadow banned from public view via the Web. However, only the Monarch can wear the State Robe and indeed is legally required to wear it to open Parliament. The actresses have never worn it nor a copy (they probably think no one would notice). We have had no Monarch for over 5 years and Parliament has not been lawfully nor legally opened in that time. Statutes (for the fraud they have turned out to be) must be signed by the Monarch or isn't passed as law. Obviously none have been signed. How many of you have been falsely summonsed to court, fined, paid taxes they aren't authorised to demand (they jail even very old people for non-payment! Not only morally reprehensible but now we know they are criminals for doing so). I was ok to pay a reasonable amount of justified council and any other tax to a genuinely publicly owned authority, but absolutely not to criminal mobsters. I stopped paying when I discovered some of the above, and emailed the council to tell them why - that their executive, etc are guilty of treason etc. They applied a no longer existant grant to give a nil balance on their invoice in 2021. They automatically did the same in 2022, rather than try to deny what there are official documents and records to prove. All executives of once supposedly public authorities know all this, their secretaries, legal departments, Judges, Magistrates, JP's, Peers in the House of Lords, senior clergy, NHS bosses etc etc. Centuries of ongoing and multiple treason, frauds, malfeasance and more for centuries and it seems more so than ever since 2005. Clearly, as all is stolen from us in fraudulent dealings, those who claim ownership apart from the British Public are not the owners at all. We must demand the return of our Government to be owned by us not overpaid for by us, all departments and buildings. People who are not too old, ill and who have the nous, determination and staying power must handle this whilst ensuring that they are not infiltrated. The second alternative is for enough of the employees and public to refuse to acknowledge their authority and to set up a new public sovereign government for the UK, and for each country in the UK, followed by doing the same with local authorities. Chiefly, also taking over the central and other banks or setting up new ones to take business from them is vital. Iceland did something like it in 2008 but didn't go far enough, and being left standing alone against them Iceland fell back into their clutches after a very few years. Ever heard of "do a job properly or not at all"? I am doubtful there are enough people who can and will do it. Too many think that bloody revolution is the only way, but all through history such revolutions are also controlled by the so called 'elite' and results in the same or worse rulership. All wars ARE bankers wars. Demanding the return of what is lawfully and rightfully ours, or writing it off and creating anew are the only other alternatives. There is much other information on the website I mentioned near the top of this. I am no longer on fraud book etc so if you are then please pass it on.

You know, left-wingers can also enjoy walking.

Truss has lefty lower middle class parents and Sunak started with bugger all. Can young, naive and lazy interviewers please get their facts right!

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

Will someone remind me why Rory Stewart isnt an MP, oh yes he couldnt get people to vote for him, can someone remind me why Rory Stewart isnt the Mayor of London, a job even Boris managed to get elected to, Oh yes now I remember, he couldnt get peole to vote for him lol...

BBB Bring Back Boris