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Miranda Green

Deputy opinion editor

Miranda Green has served as a UK and world news editor for the Financial Times, and has been the paper’s education and political correspondent. She helped found The Day to assist schools teaching current affairs to teenagers, and worked for the Liberal Democrat party in the House of Commons from 1995 to 2000.

Miranda was named Culture, Diary and Social Commentator of the Year in the 2018 Comment Awards.

Email Miranda Green @greenmiranda  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    UK politics21 min
    Sketchy Politics: the extinction election?

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    Sketchy politics: extinction election?
  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    Political Fix podcast33 min listen
    Labour’s manifesto: where will the money come from?

    Plus, what might a Labour government mean for your personal finances?

  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    Political Fix podcast36 min listen
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    UK election: can the Green party split the leftwing vote?

  • Wednesday, 29 May, 2024
    UK general election 202420 min
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    Robert Shrimsley and Miranda Green have a clear plan, a bold umbrella, and are stockpiling canned food

    Sketchy Politics: Starmy weather
  • Saturday, 25 May, 2024
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    A selection of the most insightful titles on the race for Downing Street by FT experts

    Photographs of Boris Johnson, Rory Stewart, Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer against a background of the union jack and a large tick
  • Friday, 24 May, 2024
    Political Fix podcast41 min listen
    Bring it on! Election 2024 kicks off

    What to watch out for in the campaign

  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    Political Fix podcast42 min listen
    Election battle lines drawn up

    Plus, a row over graduate visas could leave UK universities fighting for their future

  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    Scottish politics20 min
    Sketchy Politics: Sunak's sinking feeling

    The FT's UK political commentator Robert Shrimsley and deputy opinion editor Miranda Green sketch out Rishi Sunak's defectors, the fallout from the recent elections, and political drama in Scotland

    Sketchy Politics: that sinking feeling
  • Tuesday, 14 May, 2024
    UK politics
    ‘True blue’ turns Green as party rides countryside wave

    The environmentalists are enjoying dramatic success with voters in rural Conservative areas

    Ewan White illustration of two workman painting a house in green colour.
  • Friday, 3 May, 2024
    Political Fix podcast36 min listen
    Election special — local poll results roll in

    Tories in trouble after election losses

  • Monday, 29 April, 2024
    ReviewPolitical books
    Downward Spiral by John Bowers — can British politics be saved?

    A senior barrister makes the case for fixing the ‘sense of decay’ affecting Westminster and offers detailed and robust reforms

    Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds England flag outside 10 Downing Street
  • Sunday, 28 April, 2024
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    Side hustles, ‘slashie’ careers and complex lives make us captains of our own internal squad

  • Friday, 26 April, 2024
    Inside Politics
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    Humza Yousaf battles for political survival, plus where rail privatisation veered off track

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  • Friday, 19 April, 2024
    Political Fix podcast41 min listen
    Prime ministers’ legacies: Sunak, Truss and Brown

    Plus, is it right to allow MPs to vote freely on public health measures?

  • Tuesday, 2 April, 2024
    Brexit28 min
    We need to talk about Brexit | FT Film

    Politicians prefer to keep it off the agenda but how can Brexit actually work better?

    FT Film: we need to talk about Brexit
  • Sunday, 31 March, 2024
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    Don’t milk this time for productivity gains or self-improvement — staring into space or a great book will be of more help

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  • Thursday, 28 March, 2024
    Political Fix podcast34 min listen
    Britain’s China conundrum

    Plus, two more ministers quit in a blow to Sunak

  • Thursday, 28 March, 2024
    UK politics22 min
    Sketchy Politics: can anything save Sunak?

    The FT's chief UK political commentator Robert Shrimsley and deputy opinion editor Miranda Green look ahead to the local elections, and examine Labour's 'Ming vase' strategy

    Sketchy Politics: Can anything save Sunak?
  • Friday, 22 March, 2024
    Political Fix podcast35 min listen
    Will the economy save Sunak?

    Plus, what can Labour’s Wes Streeting deliver for the NHS?

  • Saturday, 9 March, 2024
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    Seeking leaders with heft takes democracies to strange places

    Political ‘substance’ is elusive and bodily weight taken too literally — jibes about Keir Starmer’s girth are an exception

    François Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl link hands in a show of solidarity in 1984
  • Tuesday, 27 February, 2024
    ReviewPolitical books
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    The campaigns that shaped modern politics, a rallying cry from the North, and lessons for democracy in the realities of human behaviour

  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    Political Fix podcast39 min listen
    Why would anyone want to become an MP?

    Who have the Tories and Labour selected as new candidates at the election? Michael Crick explains the changing face of tomorrow’s MPs

  • Monday, 12 February, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Making plans with one eye on Nigel Farage

    Reform UK’s rising poll ratings divide the experts, but the Farage-Tice party has got the Tories worried

    Nigel Farage, president and éminence grise of the Reform UK party
  • Monday, 12 February, 2024
    Politics23 min
    Sketchy Politics: the rules of the electoral race

    The FT's UK chief political commentator Robert Shrimsley and deputy opinion editor Miranda Green discuss how outlying runners could affect the election result

    Sketchy politics: gallop polls
  • Saturday, 10 February, 2024
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    Reform UK is a bigger danger to Conservatives than the new PopCon group launched by a former PM

    Liz Truss poses for a selfie with a person attending the launch
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