Politics On the Edge

The inside story of our broken politics from the former Cabinet minister and co-host of 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 Over the course of a decade, 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. Uncompromising, honest and darkly humorous, this is his story of the challenges, absurdities and realities of political life. Instantly praised as a new classic, it is an astonishing portrait of our turbulent times. ‘Genuinely eye-opening…always riveting, often horrifying’. iNEWS. ‘Beautifully written’. GUARDIAN. ‘Hugely entertaining’. EVENING STANDARD. BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024. A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE FT. , GUARDIAN. , SUNDAY TIMES. , TELEGRAPH. , TIMES. , OBSERVER. , i NEWSPAPER. , NEW STATESMAN, PROSPECT, CHURCH TIMES. AND SCOTSMAN. 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.