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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, 24 April, 2024
    Conservative party UK
    Tories need to learn to love London again

    The capital votes for its mayor next week, but the Conservatives’ dissociation from the city means they seem set for failure

    Ellie Foreman-Peck illustration of Rishi Sunak knocking things over with disdain in London
  • Friday, 19 April, 2024
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Ask Shrimsley: is it safe to sext?

    The do’s and mostly don’ts — especially if you’re in government

  • Wednesday, 17 April, 2024
    European Court of Human Rights
    The ECHR needs saving from itself

    Rulings on climate and migration offer Europe’s populists a rallying cry against the court’s legitimacy

    Illustration of big jagged cracks on the path leading up to the European Court of Human Rights building
  • Friday, 12 April, 2024
    Political Fix podcast32 min listen
    The great stink of England’s sewage crisis

    Plus, are Angela Rayner’s tax affairs a big problem for Labour or a smear story?

  • Friday, 12 April, 2024
    FT MagazineUK politics
    Ask Shrimsley: are centrist dads making a comeback?

    The hard truth, I’m pleased to tell you, is that we never went away

  • Wednesday, 10 April, 2024
    Labour party UK
    Labour has a great plan for winning — but for governing?

    While Keir Starmer’s cautious strategy may reassure voters, the party needs a programme for what it will do in power

    Ellie Foreman-Peck illustration of Keir Starmer standing at a podium outside Number 10 Downing Street as he reads from a script that says ‘now what?’
  • Friday, 5 April, 2024
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Ask Shrimsley: Am I the asshole?

    The first instalment of a new column tackles internet advice — and the people who ask for it

  • Wednesday, 3 April, 2024
    UK politics
    ‘Don’t knows’ will not save the Conservatives

    But they could help turn a potential electoral catastrophe into a normal-sized defeat

    Illustration of Rishi Sunak uses a butterfly net to chase question marks and Xs in the sky
  • Thursday, 28 March, 2024
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    My radical plan for The Garrick Club

    Like so many of its venerable members, I’ve applied to bring huge change from within

  • 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?
  • Wednesday, 27 March, 2024
    UK politics
    The frightening chill on free speech

    In the tussle between good intentions and bad actors, society is in danger of losing sight of what it most needs to protect

    Illustration of a bald man man looking surprised with police tape wrapped around his mouth
  • Wednesday, 27 March, 2024
    ReviewBooks
    Family Politics by John O’Farrell — the pains of Labour

    A keen-eyed story of generational tensions offers recognisable laughs, but is also a plea for political tolerance

    A Vote Labour sign in the window of a house
  • Friday, 22 March, 2024
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Get your thesaurus at the ready: the Guy Ritchie gangster is back

    Would you like a thoughtful disquisition with that kneecapping, squire?

  • Wednesday, 20 March, 2024
    UK politics
    Big-government Tories have left Labour an open goal

    State intervention in everything from childcare to small-town soccer clubs will help the opposition argue for even more

    Ellie Foreman-Peck illustration of a football under the foot of a person wearing black dress shoes, and red socks with the House of Commons logo
  • Friday, 15 March, 2024
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    The battle for the best dishwasher policy

    UK prime minister Dishy Rishi has a plan to deliver the cleanest crockery in the G7. But where do the other parties stand?

  • Wednesday, 13 March, 2024
    Brexit
    How Labour would roll back the frontiers of Brexit

    Keir Starmer is looking for ways to rebuild relations with the EU step by cautious step

    A man in suit has yellow stars spinning around his head
  • Friday, 8 March, 2024
    FT MagazineTheatre
    £100 seats for a view of Perspex? Bargain!

    Are West End prices for an obscured view and a cricked neck, just a well-deserved rebuke to the toffee-nosed theatre-going metropolitan elite?

  • Wednesday, 6 March, 2024
    UK Budget 2024
    A payday loan of a Budget

    Tax cuts now put off the reality of how to pay for them later — for both Jeremy Hunt and the shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves

    Jeremy Hunt’s wife and children watch him outside 11 Downing Street with his ministerial box before delivering the Budget
  • Friday, 1 March, 2024
    Political Fix podcast29 min listen
    Labour’s worst nightmare?

    George Galloway returns. Plus, how can the Tories fund tax cuts in the Budget?

  • Friday, 1 March, 2024
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Fun at the airport? Me neither

    Those who come up with ‘solutions’ for public spaces should be forced to participate in them

  • Wednesday, 28 February, 2024
    Conservative party UK
    The price of not policing the Tories’ paranoid frontier

    Conservatives must confront the inflammatory rhetoric of the right and resist the gravitational pull to the extremes

    Illustration of Rishi Sunak caught in a spotlight with shouting faces in the shadows.
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    UK politics
    Parliament finds itself in a dangerous position after the Speaker’s intervention

    MPs are asking whether Lindsay Hoyle’s procedural manoeuvre has made them more or less safe

    Sir Lindsay Hoyle looks over his glass and points while sitting in the Speaker’s chair
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    ReviewKeir Starmer
    Keir Starmer by Tom Baldwin — Labour’s not so accidental leader

    A new biography gets closer than most to understanding what makes the elusive politician tick

  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    I am a banking customer, hear me roar 

    As the weeks passed, I began to suspect the issue of my dormant account was not the bank’s top priority

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