Promoted minister Rory Stewart’s life has been so action-packed — Brad Pitt’s bought the film rights
NEW International Development Minister Rory Stewart was a diplomat, tutor to royalty and Harvard University lecturer before he became a Tory MP.
His life has been so action-packed that at just 35, Brad Pitt’s production company bought the rights to a biopic of his life.
Mr Stewart, 46, was educated at Eton before studying PPE at Oxford - the well-trodden path to power.
While other uni students were downing pints, he tutored Princes William and Harry in his spare time.
After graduating, he joined the Foreign Office as a diplomat, and between 2000 and 2002 he trekked 6,000 miles through Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran.
The father-of-two was elected MP for Penrith and the Border in 2010 and has been a minister for the environment department, foreign office, and, until yesterday evening, prisons minister.
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Last year, Mr Stewart said he would quit by this August if he did not manage to bring prison violence and drug use down.
But he will now not have to see out the promise.
A Remainer during the EU referendum campaign, he is often sent out by No10 to defend the PM’s Brexit deal on the airwaves.
Ambitious, last week he publicly threw his hat into the ring to replace Theresa May by saying he would like to be PM.
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