The searing inside story of our broken politics from the former Cabinet minister and co-host of The Rest Is Politics.
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.
BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024
'Rory Stewart's Politics on the Edge digs deeper than most. As well as a fascinating insider account of the Cameron-May-Johnson premierships, it is a scathing portrait of our flawed political system and a "rebarbative profession" that, despite Stewart's appetite for public service, chewed him up and spat him out'GUARDIAN
'Genuinely eye-openingalways riveting, often horrifying' iNEWS
'Hugely entertaining' EVENING STANDARD
'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
* A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE FT, GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, TELEGRAPH, TIMES, OBSERVER, i NEWSPAPER, NEW STATESMAN, PROSPECT, CHURCH TIMES AND SCOTSMAN *