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Jun 18, 2019 · The race is underway to select the next Prime Minister after Theresa May stood down as Conservative party leader on 7 June. Who’s up?
In 2019, Stewart stood for Leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister following the resignation of Theresa May. Since 2022, Stewart has co-hosted the The Rest Is Politics podcast with Alastair Campbell, the inaugural Prime Minister's Official Spokesperson under Tony Blair.
Sep 20, 2023 · Stewart quit the Conservative Party on 3 October 2019. He announced his candidacy for the London mayoralty the next day. That campaign ended on 6 May 2020, when Stewart withdrew due to the constraints imposed on him by the Covid-19 pandemic. The editing of his Wikipedia page began four months later.
- Will Lloyd
Jun 19, 2019 · Rory Stewart has been eliminated from the Tory leadership race after coming last in the latest crunch vote of MPs. Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt, Michael Gove, Sajid Javid and Mr Stewart made it...
Jul 19, 2022 · Stewart made it clear he would never serve in Johnson’s cabinet, and was among the Tory MPs expelled from the parliamentary party in September 2019 for trying to prevent a no-deal Brexit. A month later he announced he’d quit the Conservatives and would be standing as an independent candidate in London’s mayoral election (he dropped out ...
- Rachel Cunliffe
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Oct 4, 2019 · Rory Stewart is to stand as an independent candidate to be mayor of London after quitting the Conservative Party. The dramatic move comes after the former Tory leadership hopeful said he would stand down from his Cumbrian seat at the next general election.
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Jul 28, 2021 · Stewart was not a Tory at all until 2009, when he decided to become a Tory MP. The first time he voted Conservative – apart from a rogue proxy vote by his parents – he was voting for himself. Some in Westminster identify in him a belief that he has a preordained right to lead.
