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Politics On the Edge : The instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller from the host of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics

Politics On the Edge : The instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller from the host of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics

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Author: Stewart, Rory

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Published on 14 September 2023 by Vintage Publishing (Jonathan Cape Ltd) in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 464 pages
165 x 243 x 42 | 696g

A searing insiders account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabinet minister and co-presenter of breakout hit podcast The Rest Is PoliticsAn instant classic MARINA HYDEAt last a politician who can write SEBASTIAN FAULKSCandid, angry, funny, and self-revelatory JONATHAN DIMBLEBYExceptional RAFAEL BEHRThe Times 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.

The perfect Christmas gift for anyone who wants to understand our current political climate.

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