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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)
  • Friday, 19 July, 2024
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Ask Shrimsley: Is it all over for public schoolboys?

     If you think the purges spell an end to privilege, you haven’t been paying attention

  • Thursday, 18 July, 2024
    UK politics
    Keir Starmer’s never-ending insurgency

    Those around the prime minister want to wage a permanent campaign for change that voters will give them credit for

    Illustration of Keir Starmer in a beret with a red start on it against a red background
  • Friday, 12 July, 2024
    Political Fix podcast41 min listen
    Keir Starmer’s debut on the global stage

    Plus, the FT’s William Wallis on the state of the UK’s dangerously overcrowded prisons

  • Friday, 12 July, 2024
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Ask Shrimsley: How do I make sure that everyone knows I was promoted?

    You might want to begin with the phrase ‘Some personal news . . . ’ or a ‘Just Promoted’ lapel badge has essential honesty

  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2024
    UK politics
    The very resistible rise of Nigel Farage

    Reform UK poses a real threat on the radical right but an improving economy and sense of hope is the best defence

    Illustration of Farage as a mythical creature
  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    The fight for the UK right has begun

    Conservatives need to understand why they lost this election

    A man and a woman walk down a city street holding hands
  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
    Political Fix podcast59 min listen
    Election special: Starmer moves into Number 10

    The FT’s top political commentators answer listeners’ questions about the general election result

  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Ask Shrimsley: is wild hair the sign of a bad politician?

    The new right populists are opting for less challenging styles than Trump and Johnson

    Cartoon shows a man in jacket pulling his hair out
  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
    Instant InsightUK general election 2024
    Starmer stands supreme but he cannot ignore the Reform surge

    Tories suffer a punishment beating from the voters

  • Wednesday, 3 July, 2024
    Political Fix podcast37 min listen
    Campaign catch-up: election-eve predictions and verdicts

    The panel casts ahead to the election results, and reviews the six-week campaigns

  • Wednesday, 3 July, 2024
    Brexit
    Why Starmer should now play prosecutor on Brexit

    A proper audit of the impact of leaving the EU would deliver political and economic benefits to incoming Labour ministers

    Illustration of Michael Gove, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and Rishi Sunak in a police line-up
  • Friday, 28 June, 2024
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Ask Shrimsley: should I charge my children rent?

    From parent to landlord, what have you got to lose apart from any remaining popularity?

  • Wednesday, 26 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Two years to ‘skelp’ Scottish nationalism

    The SNP is down but not out: Labour must prove that a UK government can deliver benefits to Scotland’s voters

    Ewan White illustration of Keir Starmer pulling the Union Jack flag off the Scottish flag
  • Tuesday, 25 June, 2024
    Political Fix podcast29 min listen
    Campaign catch-up: Why this UK election result could be the most distorted ever

    Plus, how the seeds of Tory collapse were sown in 2019

  • Friday, 21 June, 2024
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Do I have to like football now?

    There is still a choice, but you have to be ruthless. Only total indifference will do

  • 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.
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