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Key question is not what but how, says Rory Stewart, 1st up for #Lobbyhustings in Westminster
He says you don’t want to hear a pitch so I’ll sit down & take your questions. Good start
1st Q: citizens assembly. Stewart says it’s a threat to force parliament to deal with Brexit
Stewart admits he’s not going to get John Redwood to vote for the Brexit deal, so he would go to Lisa Nandy, Lab MP for Wigan
“We’ve got 4 other candidates selling unicorns”: Stewart, not offering a unicorn
All the other candidates said, because they were an entrepreneur or they were a hard man, they could do something Theresa May couldn’t
Would he vote Leave or Remain in a 2nd referendum? Stewart says he’s dodging the question because it would mean he had failed
“I am trying to make this a complicated answer because you are complicated people”
“I’ve got nothing to lose and I don’t have to think before I answer a question because I just say what I think”: Stewart on his advantages
Do you trust your fellow MPs? “In the voting lobbies? No.”
He refuses to say he would bring down a Tory govt to stop a no-deal Brexit because there are other ways (this is correct I think)
