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'Nothing could skewer Rory’s unadmitted hunger for acclaim more than his hero T.E. Lawrence’s observation of his own “craving to be famous, and a horror of being known to like being known”.
In his memoir – and every time I’ve heard him speak – Rory casts himself as the reluctant hero, come to save the country from Tory populism, and the Tories from themselves. For a man who claims not to want to be centre-stage, he seems to have a preternatural ability to wander ‘unknowingly’ into the limelight. He makes much of the idea that he’d like nothing more than to live the life of a poet, or perhaps a Victorian explorer, but duty calls and thus he reluctantly puts down his slim volume of Ovid to take up the challenge of leading the Tory Party or to have a run at becoming Mayor of London. How galling that both jobs were snaffled up by his deeply unserious nemesis.
Rory Stew hates Brexit, natch, but above all he loathes Boris Johnson – really despises him. Predictably the subject of Brexit and Boris provide much fodder for the podcast Rory co-hosts with the bagpipe-bothering Blairite bully-boy, Alastair Campbell. One wonders whether what Rory-Stew most dislikes about Bo-Jo is that they’re both sharp-elbowed Old Etonians who cultivated their quirks and studied eccentricities to a level of theatrical performance, yet it was the shambolic Boris who, unfathomably, succeeded in attaining the top job.'
Paddy Taylor, Unherd.
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