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    Robert Shrimsley

    UK chief political commentator and executive editor

    Robert Shrimsley is UK chief political commentator and executive editor of the Financial Times. He writes a weekly column on British politics and for the FT weekend magazine. Before this, he served as the FT’s chief political correspondent, news editor, managing editor of FT.com and editorial director.
    Email Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
    • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
      Labour party UK
      No, Keir, the real opposition is behind you

      Forget the Conservatives, it is his backbench MPs who will put pressure on Starmer

      Keir Starmer against an outline of people against a red background
    • Friday, 14 June, 2024
      UK politics21 min
      Sketchy Politics: the extinction election?

      Robert Shrimsley and Miranda Green ask whether Reform might be behind a Conservative extinction level event

      Sketchy politics: extinction election?
    • Friday, 14 June, 2024
      FT MagazineLife & Arts
      Ask Shrimsley: do I need a Great British rebrand? 

      It’s only when things are bad that ‘great’ becomes a popular prefix 

    • Wednesday, 12 June, 2024
      UK general election 2024
      Starmer will be centrism’s last chance

      UK mainstream parties will not fend off the populist right unless Labour moves fast and builds things

      Illustration of a cautious-looking Keir Starmer walking along the Thames with his hands in his pockets. The shadow he casts stretches across the river and up the side of Big Ben
    • Friday, 7 June, 2024
      Political Fix podcast31 min listen
      Tory morale plunges

      Plus, the UK’s place in the wider world

    • Friday, 7 June, 2024
      FT MagazineLife & Arts
      Ask Shrimsley: what’s the most frightening phrase in the world?

      Surprisingly, the correct answer has nothing to do with Brexit or business-casual

    • Friday, 7 June, 2024
      ReviewPolitical books
      The Searchers by Andy Beckett — the making of the Labour left

      A portrait of the figures from Benn to Corbyn who made waves in the party but often put protest before power

      A man in a suit and yellow tie stands smiling in a crowd of people holding balloons and placards with the words Ken’s Fare Deal
    • Wednesday, 5 June, 2024
      UK general election 2024
      Behold the final casualties of Brexit

      The referendum uncorked an insatiable populist politics that Tories hoped to co-opt. Instead, it has consumed them

      Ellie Foreman-Peck illustration of Rishi Sunak, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Jacob Rees-Mogg falling into a vortex
    • Friday, 31 May, 2024
      FT MagazineLife & Arts
      Ask Shrimsley: should I be panic buying?

      A government website with tips on surviving a possible crisis doesn’t mention how many packets of Hobnobs we’re going to need

    • Wednesday, 29 May, 2024
      UK general election 2024
      Rishi Sunak’s spaghetti strategy

      History shows it doesn’t much matter whether a bold new policy idea is popular if the people proposing it are not

      Ellie Foreman-Peck illustration of Rishi Sunak as Dr Seauss’s Cat in the Hat.
    • Wednesday, 29 May, 2024
      UK general election 202420 min
      Sketchy Politics: Starmy weather

      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
      ReviewPolitical books
      UK general election 2024: what books to read ahead of the July 4 ballot

      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, 24 May, 2024
      FT MagazineLife & Arts
      Ask Shrimsley: do I really have to give you a five-star rating?

      It used to be the mark of true excellence, now it just means your delivery rider did not eat your food on the way round

    • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
      UK general election 2024
      A last gamble for a UK prime minister who has run out of road

      With nothing on the horizon likely to dramatically improve, Sunak has decided to seize the economic moment

      Illustration of Rishi Sunak holding up his hands and shrugging at the lecturn outside 10 Downing Street
    • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
      UK infected blood scandal
      The real face of the Deep State

      From the infected blood scandal to the Post Office saga, the dead hand of officialdom is everywhere in the UK

      Ellie Foreman-Peck illustration of blood bags on a tilted scales of justice.
    • Friday, 17 May, 2024
      FT MagazineLife & Arts
      Ask Shrimsley: how do I get my kids off their phones?

      Google it! Just kidding

    • 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
    • Friday, 10 May, 2024
      FT MagazineLife & Arts
      Ask Shrimsley: is it time to try glamping?

      The answer may depend on where you’re starting from

    • Wednesday, 8 May, 2024
      Conservative party UK
      The Tory right has one last job for Rishi Sunak

      Having given up on removing the prime minister, their mission now is to make him the fall guy

      Ellie Foreman-Peck illustration of many fingers pointing at Rishi Sunak
    • Friday, 3 May, 2024
      Political Fix podcast36 min listen
      Election special — local poll results roll in

      Tories in trouble after election losses

    • Friday, 3 May, 2024
      FT MagazineLife & Arts
      Ask Shrimsley: what does ‘mansplaining’ mean these days?

      No man is safe from the accusation — except perhaps David Attenborough

    • Wednesday, 1 May, 2024
      Labour party UK
      The second coming of Ed Miliband

      Labour’s shadow energy secretary could be among the most powerful — and radical — of Starmer’s close allies

      Caricature of Ed Miliband holding a document titled ‘Clean Energy Wind Farms’
    • Monday, 29 April, 2024
      Instant InsightScottish National party
      Political gravity catches up with the SNP

      Humza Yousaf played a bad hand dreadfully but a reckoning for the party was unavoidable

      Hamza Yousaf walks away from a podium after speaking. A Scotland flag hangs in the background
    • Friday, 26 April, 2024
      FT MagazineLife & Arts
      Ask Shrimsley: What do I have to do to get a peerage?

      Don’t go thinking you can rely on good works or advancing humanity. It’s going to cost you

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