Being a politician was ‘very yucky’, ex-MP Rory Stewart tells Hay audience

Former Tory minister admits at festival that he felt a fraud due to need to give the impression he was in three places at once

Former Conservative MP Rory Stewart found being a politician very yucky" and felt like a fraud, he told an audience at Hay festival on Saturday.

Asked whether he would consider going back into politics, he said that he found being a politician personally very, very unpleasant" and didn't like it", adding: I feel like a fraud all the time, in a whole series of ways."