From Obama to Oatcakes - New Tory candidate revealed
To say Penrith and the Border's new Conservative candidate has an interesting CV is the understatement of the century.
Rory Stewart emerged victorious from the Penrith Primary on Sunday evening.
His education - Eton and Oxford - isn't a shock for a Conservative candidate, but there's plenty more to him.
He's a former soldier and diplomat, who even ended up running one of the Coalition provinces in Iraq.
He did have time to be a tutor in the 1990s too - his two pupils just happened to be Princes William and Harry!
Oh and .
He's also a Professor of Human Rights at Harvard, and has advised the Obama administration on Afghanistan.
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Quite a lot to pack into a life that's lasted 36 years thus far.
But his high profile also makes it quite easy to get an even deeper insight into what's on offer.
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And as he's been on Desert Island Discs, we also know his luxury item for the island would have been a ceramic bowl from a village in Afghanistan.
I got a chance to speak to him briefly after the selection meeting on Sunday.
He was understandably pleased to have been picked in an Open Primary rather than a closed selection by party members.
Mind you I better watch my step when it comes to interviewing him in the studio.
He lists his favourite film as Bruce Lee's Fists of Fury.
But at least we share a birthday. (So with clever Googling you'll now know when to get my present in the post - if there is any post that is!).
I'm Richard Moss, the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Political Editor for the North East and Cumbria. Welcome to my irreverent - but hopefully insightful - northern take on reporting politics for Look North and the Politics Show.
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