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Robert Shrimsley

UK chief political commentator and UK editor at large

Robert Shrimsley is UK chief political commentator and UK editor at large 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.

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  • Wednesday, 29 March, 2023
    UK politics & policy
    Britain’s new stability is built on soft foundations

    An end to the upheaval of the past few years is welcome, but the underlying ingredients of populism and Scottish separatism remain

  • Friday, 24 March, 2023
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    My 45 seconds on the government’s TikTok ban

    Why worry about TikTok when you’ve still got HanCock and OakShok?

  • Wednesday, 22 March, 2023
    Labour Party UK
    A hefty shock awaits those who see little difference between Starmer and Sunak

    Temporary policy overlaps mask huge ideological contrasts with a small state prime minister trapped in a big state moment

  • Friday, 17 March, 2023
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    What to do if your bank decides you are ‘dormant’

    To avoid your account being frozen, you’d better look busy enough to make it worth their while to pay you next-to-nothing for their trouble

  • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
    UK Budget
    Hunt offers Tories hope in a world of low expectations

    Most MPs can see that the disciplined approach of Sunak and his chancellor is their best and indeed only bet

  • Friday, 24 February, 2023
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Forget ‘advice to my younger self’ articles. What would older me want to know?

    I don’t care what I should have done differently decades ago

  • Wednesday, 22 February, 2023
    UK politics & policy
    Conservatives and the sorry state of public patronage

    The Richard Sharp case shows the dangers of over-narrowing selection criteria for top jobs

  • Friday, 17 February, 2023
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    How Liz Truss’s Very Powerful Economic Establishment stopped me buying a Lamborghini

    The former prime minister is right: wrongheaded economic orthodoxy is stopping us from fulfilling our dreams

  • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
    Nicola Sturgeon
    Nicola Sturgeon had run out of ideas on Scottish independence

    Departing first minister lacked any answer to intransigence from Westminster

  • Friday, 10 February, 2023
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Why, why, why? Welsh Rugby’s true crime in singing ‘Delilah’

    Freedom fighters have complained of ‘woke’ culture, but tellingly they never allow for the freedom of organisations to make decisions they dislike

  • Friday, 10 February, 2023
    Inside Politics
    Unionists sense the end of ‘peak Sturgeon’

    Also in this newsletter, the chronic rapid turnover of housing ministers will hardly help Tories achieve long-term reform

  • Wednesday, 8 February, 2023
    Conservative Party UK
    Sunak is haunted by Tory ghosts and fantasies of cake

    MPs agitating for reheated ‘Trussonomics’ could force the prime minister off the path of fiscal prudence

  • Friday, 3 February, 2023
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Memo to staff: dress fabulously

    Do we want our lawyers to ‘express themselves to the full’?

  • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
    UK politics & policy
    Conservatives are forced to face the economic case for net zero

    The green industrial revolution is coming: ministers need to back a Tory plan to embrace it and prosper

  • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
    Northern Ireland
    Sunak faces crunch decision on post-Brexit Northern Ireland

    Deal takes shape on trading arrangements but unionists and Eurosceptics still need to be brought on board

  • Sunday, 29 January, 2023
    Instant InsightUK politics & policy
    Zahawi affair raises doubts over Sunak’s ruthlessness

    Sometimes political leadership requires acting on gut instinct rather than sheltering behind investigations

  • Friday, 27 January, 2023
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    How the reborn high street is making us both fat and fit

    Old banks are turning into cafés or fitness centres. Perhaps a new social divide is on its way

  • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
    Conservative Party UK
    Careless conservatism is killing Sunak’s effort to save his party

    Hit by a series of mini scandals, the studious prime minister is starting to look weak

  • Monday, 23 January, 2023
    InterviewLabour Party UK
    Labour vows to rebuild international reputation of ‘isolated’ UK

    Shadow foreign secretary says repairing relations with the EU will be a priority if elected

  • Friday, 20 January, 2023
    FT MagazineMusic
    What Shakira gets wrong about men and their cars

    The star’s diss track about her ex, Gerard Piqué, proves our stereotypes about motors need updating

  • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
    Brexit
    There is no path back to a pre-Brexit Northern Ireland

    The EU must help Rishi Sunak face down hardliners to break the logjam

  • Friday, 13 January, 2023
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    The misery of the always-switched-on parent

    My phone allows me to monitor my daughter’s late night journey home. But is that a good thing?

  • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
    UK politics & policy
    British politics is still suffering from ‘long populism’

    Sunak is refusing to confront reality, just like his predecessors

  • Wednesday, 4 January, 2023
    Conservative Party UK
    Boris Johnson is the itch Tories must stop scratching

    The former leader’s return is unlikely but it is a sign of the Conservatives’ malaise that so many still dream of it

  • Friday, 23 December, 2022
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    How my farfetched predictions for 2022 came true

    Three prime ministers and a birthday cake: a year in British politics

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