About Rory Stewart:
Roderick James Nugent Stewart is a British academic, author, diplomat, documentary maker and Conservative politician presently serving as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA). He is a former Chair of the House of Commons Defence Select Committee. Since May 2010, he has been the Member of Parliament for Penrith and The Border, in the county of Cumbria, North West England.
It was a bit of a surprise when I became a Tory MP. My friends said it was a stupid idea.
Rory Stewart