The I Index

How Not to Be a Politician: A Memoir

Top of the pile

88

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

90/100

Critics

87/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Rory Stewart

Publisher:

Penguin Press

Date:

September 19, 2023

A honest and sometimes absurdist memoir of a most remarkable journey through British politics at the breaking point.

What The Reviewers Say

Luke Harding,
The Guardian (UK)
An excoriating account of a dysfunctional governing system.
James Marriott,
The Times (UK)
Stewart has the sensibility of a writer: he is a man of grand dreams and acute perceptions.
Nick Duerden,
iNews
Ggenuinely eye-opening stuff, always riveting, often horrifying.
Michael Deacon,
The Telegraph (UK)
It’s very good. Even so, I’m not sure I should recommend it. This is because it casts such a depressing light on Westminster that it may put the reader off voting ever again.