The former MP for Penrith and the Border has released a new book documenting his experience in politics.

Rory Stewart was the MP for Penrith and the Border between 2010 and 2019 before he was kicked out of the Conservative Party for voting against a no deal Brexit alongside Sir Nicholas Soames, the grandson of Sir Winston Churchill, and former chancellor, Ken Clarke.

During his time in Parliament, he worked in the foreign office before becoming the prisons minister and ran against Boris Johnson for the leadership of the Conservative Party in 2019.

Earlier in his career he was briefly in the British Army, before serving as a diplomat in Indonesia, the Balkans and Iraq, establishing and running a charity in Afghanistan, and holding a chair at Harvard University.

His 21-month 6,000-milewalk across Asia, including Afghanistan after 911, is recorded in his New York Times bestseller, The Places in Between.

The new book, titled Politics on the Edge, talks about Rory’s experiences in politics, his “profound affection” for his former constituency of Penrith and the Border and an insight into the era of populism and global conflict.

A section of the book is about the Cumbrian floods in 2015. At the time Rory Stewart was the minister for flooding and Stewart talks about “wading into front rooms, filled with dirty water above the level of the mantle-shelves,” and “bloated corpses of sheep lie strewn across field edges.”

He says he was part of an “ancient tradition of underqualified and off-balance ministers wrapped in the old consensus of British politics.”

Stewart recently made headlines over his opinion that it was ‘disgusting’ that Labour expelled their former leader, Jeremy Corbyn, out of the part.

 Mr Corbyn had the whip taken from him and has been barred from standing as a Labour candidate due to antisemitism in the party.

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“I think it’s disgusting he was thrown out of the Labour Party”, Stewart told Ash Sarkar on Novara Media.

“Whatever you think of him (Jeremy Corbyn) is a major figure who represents a very significant part of Labour history and heritage.

“He was the leader of the party.”

Politics on the Edge, published by Penguin, is out now.