EAN: 9781787332713

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A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart former Cabinet minister and co-presenter of breakout hit podcast The Rest Is Politics 'The most exceptional political memoir I've ever read' ALAN JOHNSON 'An instant classic' MARINA HYDE 'At last a politician who can write' SEBASTIAN FAULKS The Times Political Book of the Year and pick for *The Biggest Books of the Autumn* Over the course of a decade from 2010 Rory Stewart went from being a political outsider to standing for prime minister - before being sacked from a Conservative Party that he had come to barely recognise. Tackling ministerial briefs on flood response and prison violence engaging with conflict and poverty abroad as a foreign minister and Brexit as a Cabinet minister Stewart learned first-hand how profoundly hollow our democracy and government had become. Cronyism ignorance and sheer incompetence ran rampant. Around him individual politicians laid the foundations for the political and economic chaos of today. Stewart emerged battered but with a profound affection for his constituency of Penrith and the Border and a deep direct insight into the era of populism and global conflict. Uncompromising candid and darkly humorous Politics On the Edge is his story of the challenges absurdities and realities of political life and a remarkable portrait of our age. **A FINANCIAL TIMES GUARDIAN SUNDAY TIMES DAILY TELEGRAPH TIMES OBSERVER i NEWSPAPER NEW STATESMAN PROSPECT CHURCH TIMES AND SCOTSMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023** Politics on the Edge was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller from 09.09.23-16.09.23 and 09.12.23-16.12.23 and 30.12.23-06.01.24

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