Roderick James Nugent Stewart (born 3 January 1973), known as Rory Stewart, is a British politician. He was the Secretary of State for International Development from May 2019 to July 2019, and was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Penrith and The Border from 2010 through 2019.
From 2016 to 2018, Stewart was Minister of State at the Department for International Development and Minister of State for Africa, and on 9 January 2018 he was appointed Minister of State for Prisons.
Stewart was a candidate in the 2019 Conservative leadership election.
On 3 October 2019, Stewart announced he had resigned from the Conservative Party and would stand down as an MP at the next general election. He will stand as an independent candidate for Mayor of London in the 2020 election.