Rory Stewart
British politician
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| 2024 | In a 2024 interview with David Remnick of the New Yorker, Rory Stewart described himself as a passionate monarchist and strong friend of the king. |
| 2024 | Before the 2024 United States presidential election, Rory Stewart predicted that Kamala Harris would win comfortably against Donald Trump. After Trump's victory became apparent, Stewart admitted he had been completely wrong and guilty of massive wishful thinking. |
| February 7 2024 | The Daily Telegraph reported that Stewart had emerged as a possible candidate in the 2024 University of Oxford Chancellor election. |
| January 2024 | Stewart became the inaugural Brady Johnson professor of the practice of Grand Strategy at Yale University's Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs. |
| 2023 | Stewart received an honorary doctorate from the University of Cumbria. |
| 2023 | Stewart and his family concluded their time living in Jordan. |
| September 2023 | Stewart's book Politics on the Edge was published by Jonathan Cape, offering a personal account of his years in politics and detailing his experiences as a Member of Parliament and minister, which became an instant number one Sunday Times bestseller in the UK. |
| August 2022 | GiveDirectly announced that Stewart would be president of the organization. |
| March 2022 | Stewart and Alastair Campbell launched The Rest Is Politics podcast. |
| 2021 | Stewart and his family moved to Jordan for two years to work for the Turquoise Mountain Foundation, where they set up a project to restore a Roman site near the Golan Heights. |
| September 2020 | He became a fellow at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, teaching politics, grand strategy and international relations. |
| May 6 2020 | Stewart ended his mayoralty bid, citing the challenges of maintaining a campaign amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the larger budgets of his opponents. |
| May 6 2020 | Stewart withdrew his candidacy for the London mayoral election, which was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| February 2020 | Stewart sought invitations from Londoners to stay in their homes as part of his mayoral campaign, aiming to better understand the city through their perspectives. |
| 2019 | Expelled from the Conservative Party after voting with 21 colleagues to block a no-deal Brexit, being formally stripped of the Conservative whip. |
| 2019 | He was awarded the Politician of the Year award by British GQ. |
| 2019 | He led international meetings to mobilise donor support for Ebola in Paris and Geneva, collaborating with USAID administrator Mark Green. |
| 2019 | Stewart visited environmental programs in Kenya, including wind turbine projects in Lake Turkana and Mangrove Protection in Lamu. |
| 2019 | Stewart visited outbreak sites in Goma, Beni, and Butembo in Eastern DRC, and then met with President Tshisekedi in Kinshasa. |
| 2019 | Stewart enshrined his three priorities as Secretary of State for International Development in his new single departmental plan within a month of taking up the position. |
| 2019 | Stewart increased the UK's contribution to the WHO and Ebola programs in response to the rising number of Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo. |
| 2019 | He held meetings with Prime Minister Omar Razzaz during his visit to UK aid funded programmes in Jordan. |
| October 2019 | Stewart announced his candidacy as an independent for the upcoming London mayoral election, planning to walk through each of the 32 London boroughs during his campaign. |
| October 3 2019 | Stewart announced his resignation from the Conservative Party and his intention to stand down as an MP at the upcoming general election. |
| September 3 2019 | Rory Stewart voted in favor of MPs taking control of the order paper to table a bill to stop a no-deal Brexit, leading to his expulsion from the Conservative Party and requiring him to sit as an independent MP. |
| September 3 2019 | Stewart had the Conservative Whip removed after voting in favor of a motion to delay the UK's exit date from the European Union. |
| August 2019 | The results from the Ten Prisons Project were published, showing a 16% drop in the rate of assaults and a 17% drop in the number of assaults, exceeding national trends, alongside a 50% drop in positive results from mandatory drug tests. |
| July 24 2019 | Rory Stewart resigned from the cabinet, feeling that he could not serve under Boris Johnson, who was elected prime minister after Theresa May's resignation. |
| June 18 2019 | Rory Stewart made it through the second parliamentary ballot with 37 votes, surpassing the elimination threshold by four votes, but was later eliminated in the following day's ballot. |
| June 16 2019 | Stewart participated in a televised debate on Channel 4, where he was widely judged to have won the debate, receiving the most applause from the studio audience. |
| June 13 2019 | Rory Stewart surprised many by making it through the first parliamentary ballot in the Conservative leadership election, gaining 19 votes, two more than the elimination threshold. |
| June 1 2019 | Kenneth Clarke was announced as one of Rory Stewart's MP backers during his campaign in the Conservative leadership election. |
| May 2019 | Rory Stewart was promoted to the cabinet as Secretary of State for International Development following the dismissal of Gavin Williamson. |
| May 29 2019 | Rory Stewart admitted to smoking opium during a wedding in Iran while participating in the Conservative leadership election. |
| May 3 2019 | Rory Stewart was sworn into Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council upon his appointment as International Development Secretary. |
| 2018 | Stewart received the Ness Award from the Royal Geographical Society in recognition of his travel in the United Kingdom and his contributions to geography. |
| 2018 | Stewart served as Minister of State for Prisons. |
| August 2018 | In an interview with BBC Breakfast, Stewart announced the launch of the Ten Prisons Project, aimed at improving prison safety and reducing violence, and pledged to resign if the project was unsuccessful within the next 12 months. |
| April 2018 | Stewart took the Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Private Member's Bill through the House of Commons, doubling the maximum sentences for attacks on emergency services personnel and introducing sexual assault as an aggravating factor in sentencing. |
| March 2018 | Ofcom announced that the target for mobile phone coverage of 98% of the population had been achieved, following Stewart's campaign for expanded coverage. |
| January 2018 | Rory Stewart was appointed Minister of State for Prisons with responsibility for prisons and probation in England and Wales following a highly critical report on HMP Liverpool. |
| 2017 | Rory Stewart was promoted to a joint position as Minister of State in both the Foreign Office and the Department for International Development, taking over responsibility for the Foreign Office and its embassies in Africa, as well as DfID programs in Africa. |
| 2017 | During his ministerial role, Stewart visited several countries in Africa and attended the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, where he held personal meetings with various African presidents. |
| 2017 | Stewart was the first foreign dignitary to be received by President Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe during his notable trip to the country. |
| April 2017 | Stewart's second son was born. |
| 2016 | The US edition of 'The Marches' was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt under the title 'The Marches: A Borderland Journey between England and Scotland.' |
| 2016 | He published 'The Marches: Border Walks With My Father' through Jonathan Cape. |
| 2016 | Rory Stewart supported remain in the 2016 referendum on the UK's continued membership of the European Union. |
| 2016 | As Minister of State for International Development, Rory Stewart travelled widely, meeting with various leaders including Sheikh Hasina, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh; Prachanda, the Prime Minister of Nepal; Ashraf Ghani, the President of Afghanistan; and Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar. |
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