A latter-day Lawrence of Arabia emerges as dark horse for May's job
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Stewart, 46, is posh, eccentric and clever, precisely, as one journalist wrote this week, the sort of oddball Britons love.
Stewart, 46, is posh, eccentric and clever, precisely, as one journalist wrote this week, the sort of oddball Britons love.
The son of a senior British intelligence officer, he attended Eton and Oxford, and served briefly as a tutor to Princes William and Harry before entering the diplomatic service. He set that aside to walk 6000 miles (10,000k) alone across Iran, Pakistan and part of Afghanistan, the basis for an acclaimed book, The Places in Between. After the coalition invasion of Iraq, he served for a time as deputy governor of a region in the country’s south.
In 2010, he entered Parliament, to the surprise of many of his friends and family. He was greeted there, wonderingly, as a latter-day Lawrence of Arabia, an odd fit in a Conservative Party sliding toward populism.
As a backbencher, he spoke eloquently of his sympathy for, and rejection of, the Scottish independence movement. At one point, he delivered a lengthy address on hedgehogs, referencing Aristotle, Richard III, Sumerian cylinder seals, Mrs Tiggy-Winkle and Romany homeopathy.
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