Rory Stewart is the Secretary of State for International Development and one of six MPs setting his sights on replacing Theresa May. In the first ballot of Conservative MPs which was held on June 13, 2019, Mr Stewart achieved 19 votes or 6.1 percent of the vote. Boris Johnson came out on top, with 114 votes or 36.4 percent – while three MPs were eliminated for not reaching the threshold of 17 votes.

These MPs were Esther McVey with nine votes (2.9 percent), Mark Harper with 10 votes (3.2 percent) and Andrea Leadsom with 11 votes (3.5 percent).

Still in the running are Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt, Michael Gove, Dominic Raab, Sajid Javid and Rory Stewart.

Despite winning the first ballot, Mr Johnson has been criticised for avoiding media interviews and not participating in the first TV debate, which was held on Sunday, June 16.

In the debate, Rory Stewart showed his standing in the Tory leadership contest, causing bookmakers to back the MP as a frontrunner against Mr Johnson.

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Betfair spokeswoman Katie Baylis said: “Failing a dramatic turnaround, Boris Johnson is a shoo-in to be announced as one of the top two candidates for the Tory Leadership on Thursday.

“Despite refusing to take part in last night’s leadership debate his odds have shorted from 2/7 at the end of last week to 1/6 this morning for the job.

“The big battle is for who will get that second spot and it’s Rory Stewart who has emerged as the favourite with Betfair Exchange punters following last night’s debate and is now 12/1 second favourite for the leadership from odds of 29/1 last week, while Jeremy Hunt is out to 21/1 from 17/2.

“Michael Gove who was 18/1 on Friday now looks out of the running at odds of 45/1, while Dominic Raab at 109/1 and Sajid Javid at 129/1 now appear to be just making up the numbers.”

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Rory Stewart net worth, expenses and earnings

Rory Stewart’s net worth is unknown, however, his salary will be around £79,468 or more, as that figure is the basic salary for an MP.

Many MPs also receive a supplementary salary for their specific responsibilities and these range from £15,025 for Select Committee Chairs to £79,990 for the Prime Minister.

Mr Stewart may earn more than this due to his writing career, as he has authored several books.

His first book was titled The Places in Between, was an account of his 32-day solo walk across Afghanistan in early 2002, and was a New York Times best-seller, with the newspaper also naming it one of its 10 notable books of 2006 and hailing it as a “flat-out masterpiece”.

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The Places in Between won the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, a Scottish Arts Council prize, the Spirit of Scotland award, and the Premio de Literatura de Viaje Caminos del Cid.

His second book The Prince of the Marshes: and other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq, also published as Occupational Hazards: My Time Governing in Iraq, describes his experiences as a Deputy Governorate Co-ordinator in Iraq.

The New York Times critic William Grimes commented that Stewart “seems to be living one of the more extraordinary lives on record”, but for him, the “real value of the new book is Mr Stewart’s sobering picture of the difficulties involved in creating a coherent Iraqi state based on the rule of law.”

Mr Stewart has also written Can Intervention Work?, co-authored with Gerald Knaus and part of the Amnesty International Global Ethics Series in 2011, The Marches, a travelogue about a 1,000-mile walk in the borderlands separating England and Scotland, known as the Scottish Marches, and an extended essay on his father Brian Stewart.

The Marches was long-listed for the Orwell Prize, won the Hunter Davies Lakeland Book of the Year, was a Waterstones Book of the Month and became a Sunday Times top ten bestseller

As an MP, Mr Stewart’s expenses are available to view by the public, and according to Mr Stewart’s report, he spent £157,669.93 in the year 2017 to 2018.

This includes £128,839.68 on staffing costs, and £3,565.19 spent on train travel between his constituency of Penrith and London.

It also includes £237.17 spent on mobile phone usage and £3,733 on rent for an office in Mr Stewart’s constituency.

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