There are many reasons to be concerned about the Foreign Office and the Department for International Development. But the solution is not, as the government proposes, to merge the two.| Rory Stewart
Streatham High Road was at first depressingly familiar. There was the same police tape, shaken witnesses, and forensic officers in their white crime scene suits that I had seen after the stabbings in Poplar and Seven Kings. But this time the attacker was a convicted terrorist, just released from prison. What did this say about how we – and I in particular as an ex-Minister for Prisons – managed terrorists in custody?| Rory Stewart
Zach Vertin: A rope from the Sky: the Making and Unmaking of the World’s newest state, 2019| Rory Stewart
Tomorrow was due to be the day of the London Mayoral election – when I would have learned whether London was prepared to elect me as an Independent Mayor. But it has been postponed because of Coronavirus for another year. The election will now take place in May 2021, and I have decided not to stand again.| Rory Stewart
The website for Rory’s Campaign for Mayor of London has launched on https://www.roryforlondon.co.uk where you can sign-up for campaign updates.| Rory Stewart
A General Election is coming, and I am leaving parliament to run as an independent candidate for mayor of London.| Rory Stewart
Article first published in The Observer on 6 October 2019.| Rory Stewart
Ahead of Prisons Week, Rory joined a coffee morning at St Andrews Church, Penrith, to hear how Caritas Care’s ACE project transforms the lives of ex-offenders.| Rory Stewart