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Welcome to The Restisted Politics, question time with me, Rory Stewart.

And me, as to Campbell, and Rory, we should reward somebody by the name of Simon Beal.

Because he has been putting this question in week after week after week after week, and he hasn't given up.

And in my new book, which I can now show you, Rory, there is my new book, and I've invented a word which is Perseverance.

Perseverance is the combination of Perseverance and Resilience.

So this guy, Simon has had the setback of not having his question answered, but he's Persevered, and therefore he's a very Perseveralian character, and his question is quite a tough one.

What role does nepotism play in public life? Have you ever been the beneficiary of it and or provided it?

Well, I think in a sunny and political life, there's much less, I think, than people outside think.

There are, I mean, nepotism, of course, as everyone knows, is about favoring your own family, generally your own kids.

And what actually has changed in British politics is that it was a very, very strong factor, obviously, in the 19th century.

People like Winston Churchill, you know, his father had been charged with ex-Jekker, his grandfather had been in Parliament, et cetera, et cetera.

Nowadays, there are MPs who have parents in Parliament on both sides of the House, or Labour MPs, who have, in fact, the Labour MPs,

both his parents were in the House, and who, I think, is married to a Member of Parliament.

Oh, John Crier!

Son of Anne Crier, and Bob Crier, both former Labour MPs, and, of course, he's married to Ellie Reeves,

who's the Labour MP for Louisian West, and whose sister is Rachel Reeves, the current shadow chancellor of the ex-Jekker. How about that?

Anyway, on the conservative side, the people who had parents who were in the House Commons,

were people like Nicholas Soames, who, of course, was Churchill's grandson, Dominic Grieve.

Andrew Mitchell. Richard Benyon. Andrew Mitchell, yeah.

And many of these people actually were more on the left of the party. They were in something called the One Nation Dining Club with me.

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