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Stewart: deselected from Conservatives ‘by text’

Rory Stewart has said he was thrown out the Conservative Party “by text” after he rebelled against the government and voted to block no-deal Brexit.

The former cabinet minister told Today that Boris Johnson’s decision to deselect 21 MPs means ‘democracy is being challenged’.

(Image: Rory Stewart, credit: Reuters/Henry Nicholls)

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