POLITICS ON THE EDGE (PB)

Over the course of a decade from 2010, 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. As he tackled ministerial briefs on flood response and prison violence, engaged with conflict and poverty abroad as a foreign minister, and faced Brexit as a Cabinet minister, Stewart learned first-hand how profoundly hollow our democracy and government had become. A blackly humorous story of cronyism, ignorance and sheer incompetence run rampant.