Maro Itoje eyes politics: ‘Opportunity to effect real change is attractive’Itoje has one eye on a career in politcs after he retires from rugbyEngland, Saracens and British and Irish Lions captain Maro Itoje has talked up his interest in a career in politics when he hangs up his rugby boots. Itoje, 30, discussed his post-playing ambitions in an appearance on the Rest Is Politics podcast with Westminster veterans Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart. I have so many interests and I think I could have gone any which way but one of them was and is politics,” he said. In the last 18 months or so I’ve become deeper and deeper in that faith,” he said. “Sometimes we forget that as a nation and how powerful we are.