Rory Stewart Concepts

Politics on the Edge: The Instant #1 Sunday Times Bestseller From the Host of Hit Podcast the Rest Is Politics

by Rory Stewart · 13 Sep 2023 · 534pp · 157,700 words

About the Author Rory Stewart served in the UK Cabinet as Secretary of State for International Development, and before that as Prisons Minister, Minister for Africa, Minister for Development, Environment

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bestseller, The Places in Between. His other books include Occupational Hazards, and The Marches. Also by Rory Stewart The Places In Between Occupational Hazards: My Time Governing in Iraq The Marches: Border Walks with My Father Rory Stewart * * * POLITICS ON THE EDGE A Memoir from Within Contents Author’s Note Prologue PART ONE 1

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reputation for being more keen on desert adventures than on visiting his constituency. Another friend had been in a party meeting in which Cameron snapped ‘Rory Stewart is exactly the kind of person we don’t want in Parliament.’ Paradoxically, however, this seemed to help me. I was told that a senior

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a few old-guard feathers with his arrogance and brutal determination to climb the ladder. Despite barely having an office and working phone, Penrith’s Rory Stewart, the Conservatives’ self-proclaimed bright star and Afghan rambler, is lobbying his colleagues hard for a spot on the Foreign Affairs Select Committee. Though he

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, it seemed, not impressed. ‘It’s highly unusual for a freshman MP to be seeking a spot on such a powerful committee. But then again, Rory Stewart is a highly unusual little man,’ one told Guido after lunch. At the bottom was the hashtag #TwatWatch. A few months later, however, this man

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calls. The whips had no advice. I went out to try to apologise and explain and by doing so generated another two days of headlines (‘Rory Stewart forced to apologise after yokel gaffe’), and comment threads: ‘an apology will not make this arrogant man’s thoughts go away, he should be removed

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and sat at mahogany tables gazing at white menu cards with gold coats of arms, which proclaimed ‘dinner in honour of the Minister of State, Rory Stewart’. Very occasionally I was taken with great drama to meet intelligence officers, who met me in locked soundproof rooms and talked mysteriously about next to

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O’Clock News as well. ‘The fight has begun with one of the candidates accusing Boris Johnson of offering a damaging and dishonest Brexit plan. Rory Stewart said he wouldn’t serve.’ Dominic Raab and Matt Hancock had chosen the same day to announce their leadership bids. But their announcements were buried

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. Lizzie began to hear from colleagues that they blamed me for breaking their momentum. The next morning, the Daily Mail ran the headline: ‘Rory Stewart brands Boris Johnson a LIAR in thinly veiled Pinocchio tweet.’ The Sun said that the leadership race had exploded into life. Matt Hancock’s attempts

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his future, he found it difficult to say he wouldn’t. Meanwhile, GQ ran a large piece arguing that only I could save the Tories. ‘Rory Stewart has an aptitude for dealing with complex problems and yet managing to appeal to both sides in a deeply divided country.’ It listed everything I

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consigned my earnest letters to the wastepaper basket, they seemed to notice me on Twitter. On 29 May the Telegraph led its front page with ‘Rory Stewart admits smoking opium in Iran’. Then, having extracted all it could about my iniquity and hypocrisy, it led the next day with the ‘exclusive story

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the United States on diplomatic business. Cartoonists began to enjoy themselves. One showed a citizen staring in disbelief at the leadership list and wondering ‘if Rory Stewart has any opium he could spare me’. The Times portrayed me shouting ‘What are they smoking?’ and the Guardian was developing a vision of me

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eleven. The day that our first polling came out, JJ, my friend the pollster, solemnly informed me, in the convoluted language of opinion measurement, that ‘Rory Stewart was the most unifying candidate and the top choice of PM for eighteen-to-forty-five-year-olds, and the only candidate in the top

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voice. My team brought in the press clippings the next morning. To my surprise the Telegraph, which had attacked me for nine years, had written, ‘Rory Stewart gave a speech that blew his Tory leadership rivals out of the water.’ Robert Peston, the ITV presenter, had tweeted

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‘Rory Stewart electrified this tent. He delivered the most coherent and lyrical launch speech of any candidate. On this showing the Tories have found a proper star.’

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James O’Brien, the radio presenter and journalist, had written, ‘For good or ill, Rory Stewart would absolutely annihilate Jeremy Corbyn in a general election.’ Generally, faced with this type of praise I felt queasy, both overvalued and misunderstood, guilty at

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18 per cent; Dominic Raab at 10 per cent; Sajid Javid at 9 per cent, and Michael Gove at 6 per cent. The Telegraph concluded, ‘Rory Stewart is the only serious threat to Boris Johnson and the TV debate proved it.’ Matt Hancock, in endorsing Boris, had hoped to deliver his supporters

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little substance’. Another journalist insisted in a blog that I was a liar who had entirely invented my walk across Afghanistan. A Telegraph article entitled ‘Rory Stewart the Florence of Belgravia years’, was topped with a picture of me aged eighteen wearing a silk Chinese jacket. It made insinuations about my relationship

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that you are a unifying figure.’ They showed me an article by Adam Boulton of Sky, who had written, ‘all to play for now for Rory Stewart who needs to convince in debate that he’s a constructive disrupter not a splitter’. Shoshana had a Turquoise Mountain engagement and could not be

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, who had been nodding at all the other replies, stopped nodding. Emily Maitlis decided this was her chance to challenge: ‘I put it to you, Rory Stewart, that you are pushing the same deal, which failed not once but three times.’ I answered that there was no alternative to getting an agreement

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. Finally, after the other candidates had spoken for six whole minutes, Emily turned to me. But we had now run out of time. ‘Very briefly, Rory Stewart, very briefly …’ she said. ‘If I were prime minister,’ I replied, ‘there would never be a no-deal. It is so unnecessary and damaging. It

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closed in on Emily so the viewers could only hear my voice, faint in the distance, with the others shouting over the top of me. ‘Rory Stewart,’ said Emily loudly, ‘we cannot hear anything – can you please hold back.’ And with that we arrived at the final question on Brexit. ‘Can the

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House group of companies whose addresses can be found at global.penguinrandomhouse.com. First published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape in 2023 Copyright © Rory Stewart, 2023 The moral right of the author has been asserted Cover design by Matt Broughton Cover photograph © Phil Rigby/CN Magazines ISBN: 978-1-473

The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq

by Rory Stewart · 1 Jan 2005 · 407pp · 123,587 words

Reaction Force Kabul Reprise Final Days Leaders Last Days in Amara Handing Over Afterword Epilogue Acknowledgments About the Author Footnotes Copyright © 2006 by Rory Stewart Epilogue copyright © 2007 by Rory Stewart All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical

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of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows: Stewart, Rory. The prince of the marshes: and other occupational hazards of a year in Iraq/ Rory Stewart.—1st ed. p. cm. 1. Iraq—Description and travel. 2. Iraq—Social life and customs—20th century. 3. Stewart, Rory—Travel. 4. British—Iraq. I

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headquarters bombed, assassination of SCIRI founder Ayatollah M. Bakr al-Hakim (Rory Stewart visits Baghdad) SEPTEMBER 2003—Rory Stewart to Iraq initially as acting governorate coordinator in Maysan NOVEMBER 2003—Molly Phee arrives as governorate coordinator in Maysan; Rory Stewart becomes her deputy MARCH 2004—Rory Stewart posted as senior adviser to Dhi Qar APRIL 2004—Release of

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and its partners in the triad, Britain the little Satan and Israel. Now we see the true nature of that imbecile Bremer and the donkey Rory Stewart—” I laughed. “I don’t think I need to need to hear the rest,” I said. They looked up at me a little anxiously. “What

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Harcourt were patient with my delays and revisions and greatly improved the text. Colin Thubron provided a last tactful and wise review. ABOUT THE AUTHOR RORY STEWART has written for the New York Times Magazine, Granta, and the London Review of Books, and is the author of The Places in Between. A

The Marches: A Borderland Journey Between England and Scotland

by Rory Stewart · 14 Jul 2016 · 414pp · 128,962 words

Book One: The Wall Book Two: Middleland Book Three: The General Danced at Dawn Chronology Acknowledgements Index Copyright About the Book His father Brian taught Rory Stewart how to walk, and walked with him on journeys from Iran to Malaysia. Now they have chosen to do their final walk together along ‘the

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, nationalisms and contemporary settlements to the natural beauty of the Marches, and a fierce absorption in tradition in their own unconventional lives. About the Author Rory Stewart was born in Hong Kong in 1973. After a brief period in the Army, he joined the Foreign Office, serving in Indonesia and the Balkans

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is now the Member of Parliament for Penrith and the Border. He lives with his wife and young son in Cumbria and London. ALSO BY RORY STEWART Non-Fiction The Places In Between Occupational Hazards: My Time Governing in Iraq As co-author Can Intervention Work? (with Gerald Knaus) List of Maps

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SW1V 2SA Jonathan Cape is part of the Penguin Random House group of companies whose addresses can be found at global.penguinrandomhouse.com Copyright © Rory Stewart 2016 Rory Stewart has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this Work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 First published

The Places in Between

by Rory Stewart · 1 Jan 2004 · 299pp · 89,342 words

The Places in Between Rory Stewart Table of Contents Title Page Table of Contents ... Copyright Dedication Contents Preface Epigraphs THE NEW CIVIL SERVICE TANKS INTO STICKS WHETHER ON THE SHORES OF

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KABUL RIVER TALIBAN TOES MARBLE Epilogue Acknowledgments Footnotes A HARVEST ORIGINAL • HARCOURT, INC. Orlando Austin New York San Diego Toronto London Copyright © Rory Stewart 2004 Illustrations copyright © 2006 by Rory Stewart All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical

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-design.co.uk First published in Great Britain by Picador in 2004 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Stewart, Rory. The places in between/Rory Stewart.—1st U.S. ed. p. cm. Originally published: London: Picador, 2004. "A Harvest Original." 1. Afghanistan—Description and travel. 2. Afghanistan—Social life and customs

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." The interpreter read the letter in a calm, neutral voice: "The governor requests his commanders to assist and protect the historian of the Hazara people, Rory Stewart." "Why didn't you show us the letter earlier?" the commander demanded. "I told you about it," I shouted back, "and you wouldn't listen

The 9/11 Wars

by Jason Burke · 1 Sep 2011 · 885pp · 271,563 words

the local population were limited. When people did travel they ended up ‘looking at Iraq through armoured glass surrounded by guns,’ in the words of Rory Stewart, deputy governer in Maysan province and then in Nasariyah.51 In the provinces, moving three CPA engineers involved a convoy of seven Humvees, two with

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Jihad, Georgetown University Press, 2008. Jean-Marc Stébé, La Crise des banlieues, PUF, 2007. Jessica Stern, Terror in the Name of God, Harper Perennial, 2004. Rory Stewart, Occupational Hazards: My Time Governing in Iraq, Picador, 2007. The Places in Between, Picador, 2005. Hilary Synnott, Bad Days in Basra, I. B. Tauris, 2008

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Backgrounder, October 2001. Human Rights Watch Annual Report, Massacres of Hazaras in Afghanistan, February 1, 2001. Interviews with United Nations specialist, Kabul, 2009. See also Rory Stewart, The Places in Between, Picador, 2005, pp. 247, 263, 299 and 302. Author interview with Stewart, Kabul, March 2009. Stewart also gives a colourful account

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. Ibid. 83. Ibid. 84. See ‘The Lord of the Marshes Takes a Mediating Role in Iraq’, Terrorism Focus, vol. 3, no. 33, August 23, 2006. Rory Stewart, Occupational Hazards, Picador, 2007, is an excellent and colourful account with much useful detail on Abu Hatem and Maysan province more generally. 85. Author interview

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, April 2004. 52. Rory McCarthy of the Guardian was the reporter. 53. Author interview, June 2004. 54. Author interview, Tikrit, 2004. 55. Author interview with Rory Stewart, Kabul, March 2009. 56. Benon V. Sevan (Executive Director of the Iraq Programme) statement: ‘Phasing down and termination of the Programme pursuant to Security Council

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Synnott, October 2009. 74. Author interview with David Richmond, Baghdad, March 2004. 75. Author interview, Tikrit, March 2004. 76. The episode is related vividly by Rory Stewart, British diplomat and CPA official at the time, in his Occupational Hazards, pp. 391–3. 77. Patrick Cockburn, Muqtada al-Sadr and the Fall of

Failed State: The Sunday Times Bestselling Investigation Into Why Britain Is Struggling

by Sam Freedman · 10 Jul 2024 · 368pp · 101,133 words

getting the top job, yet did not have a single significant achievement to her name, nor even any substantive policy ambition associated with her. As Rory Stewart, who was a junior minister to Truss at DEFRA (Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs), notes in his memoir: ‘I was told she had

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whole. Truss was known as one of the most inveterate leakers in cabinet. There are still ministers who work away quietly on genuine policy change. Rory Stewart cites David Gauke, his former boss at the Ministry of Justice, as an example. The easy route for justice ministers is just to try and

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’, 6 March 2023, https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/93/human-rights-joint-committee/news/186524/strikes-bill-fails-to-meet-human-rights-obligations-jchr/ 34 Rory Stewart, How Not to Be a Politician (Penguin Press, 2023), p. 156. 35 Ibid., p. 157. 36 Valentina Romei, ‘UK public trust in political parties collapses

City Squares: Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World

by Catie Marron · 11 Apr 2016 · 195pp · 58,462 words

, William, and Serena CONTENTS Dedication Introduction: Catie Marron PART ONE CULTURE: POWER OF THE PLACE Introduction: Michael Kimmelman Maidan-e-Pompa, Kabul: Resisting the Square Rory Stewart Place des Vosges, Paris: A Private Place Adam Gopnik Red Square, Moscow; Grand Market Square, Kraków: The Past Is Always Present Anne Applebaum Squares of

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writer was chosen with thought and care. Each writer has contributed his or her own special mix of innate talent, prodigious research, and local knowledge. Rory Stewart tells the story of a square in Kabul, which has come and gone several times over five centuries, due to both the local culture and

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Park, Washington Square, New York City, courtesy Benrubi Gallery, New York OBERTO GILI Photographs by ANDREW QUILTY Oculi MAIDAN-E-POMPA, KABUL: RESISTING THE SQUARE Rory Stewart OLD KABUL WAS A CITY NOT OF SQUARES BUT OF NARROW LANES. For five thousand years, pack animals shuffled slaves, sugar, and silk between the

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African’s autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, and then wrote his own book about the experience, Mandela’s Way: Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage. RORY STEWART, OBE, FRSL A British academic, author, diplomat, documentary maker, and politician, Stewart is the minister for the Environment in the British Government. The author of

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Thoughts CREDITS Cover design by Milan Bozic COPYRIGHT CITY SQUARES. Copyright © 2016 by Catie Marron. “Introduction: Culture” © 2016 Michael Kimmelman. “Maidan-e-Pompa, Kabul” © 2016 Rory Stewart. “Place des Vosges, Paris” © 2016 Adam Gopnik. “Red Square, Moscow; Grand Market Square, Kraków” © 2016 Anne Applebaum. “Squares of Rome and Venice” © 2016 Zadie Smith

Arabian Sands

by Wilfred Thesiger · 15 Sep 1959 · 403pp · 138,026 words

of a Nomad. An accomplished photographer, he donated his extensive collection of negatives to the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. Wilfred Thesiger died in 2003. RORY STEWART was born in Hong Kong and educated at Eton and Oxford. He served briefly as an infantry Officer in the Black Watch before joining the

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lives in Kabul where he runs the Turquoise Mountain Foundation. He was awarded the OBE in 2004. WILFRED THESIGER Arabian Sands With an introduction by RORY STEWART PENGUIN BOOKS PENGUIN CLASSICS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street

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a second preface 1991 Published with a new introduction in Penguin Classics 2007 1 Copyright © The Estate of Wilfred Thesiger, 1959, 1984, 1991 Introduction copyright © Rory Stewart, 2007 All rights reserved The publishers are indebted to Messrs J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd for permission to quote a prayer from the Rodwell translation

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is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser EISBN: 978–0–141–90442–9 Contents Introduction by Rory Stewart List of Maps Preface Preface to the 1991 Reprint Foreword Prologue 1 Abyssinia and the Sudan 2 Prelude in Dhaufar 3 The Sands of Ghanim

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brought them on his auspicious occasion. It is in these moments that prejudices and limitations, that Thesiger matters, both as a writer and a man. Rory Stewart, 2007 Arabian Sands To bin Kabina and bin Ghabaisha List of Maps Danakil Country The Sudan Arabia Tribal Map of Southern Arabia The Empty Quarter

Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain's Battle With Coronavirus

by Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnott · 18 Mar 2021 · 432pp · 143,491 words

former chancellors Ken Clarke and Philip Hammond, ex-cabinet minister Sir Oliver Letwin, former education secretary Justine Greening, the ex-attorney general Dominic Grieve, and Rory Stewart, who had previously been the international development secretary. The party had been streamlined for one purpose: delivering Brexit. However, once the election had been won

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rebuke for the chief medical officer. The mixture of small steps forward and delay was causing exasperation. It was articulated that day by ex-minister Rory Stewart, who had been a Tory leadership contender against Johnson five months earlier. ‘The prime minister’s job is to choose the strategy and I believe

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is not just thousands of people who have died unnecessarily, it’s tens of thousands. It has also caused an unprecedented hit on the economy.’ Rory Stewart, the former international development secretary and Conservative Party leadership contender, argues there was a smugness and arrogance about his own government’s approach to the

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wrong?’, Dispatches, Channel 4, 3 June 2020. 7. ‘Special Report: Into the fog – How Britain lost track of the coronavirus’, Reuters, 29 June 2020. 8. ‘Rory Stewart interview: Deploy the army to combat coronavirus’, Joe, 12 March 2020. 9. ‘Coronavirus: Did the government get it wrong?’, Dispatches, Channel 4, 3 June 2020

Fall Out: A Year of Political Mayhem

by Tim Shipman · 30 Nov 2017 · 721pp · 238,678 words

scrambled to write his letter to MPs, Katie Perrior and Tom Swarbrick had a sensitive situation to manage. A dramatic U-turn was pending but Rory Stewart, the international development minister, was shortly due to appear on the BBC’s Daily Politics show. ‘We’re going to have to speed this up

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Oxley, the DfID spad who was with Stewart, and said, ‘We’re doing a U-turn on National Insurance contributions. There’s a letter in Rory Stewart’s private email.’ Oxley got Stewart to call Perrior, who gave the minister three points to make on air. Perrior was aghast when Stewart went

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was binned. When, months later, Stewart began positioning himself as a future leadership contender, a senior government source said, ‘I’d be seriously worried if Rory Stewart went anywhere near the job. He was incapable of delivering three lines.’ Hammond was grateful for the support of the Number 10 press team and

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present said. As for the future leadership sweepstakes, the call went up to ‘skip a generation’. Ministers like Sajid Javid, Justine Greening, Dominic Raab and Rory Stewart, and rising backbench stars Tom Tugendhat, Johnny Mercer and James Cleverly, all began to be talked about as possible candidates. Over the summer, online campaigners