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Stephen Bush

Columnist and Associate Editor

Stephen Bush is an associate editor and columnist at the Financial Times. He writes a daily newsletter, Inside Politics, charting the course of politics and policy in the United Kingdom, and a wide-ranging weekly column. You can subscribe to Inside Politics here.

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  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    Inside Politics
    This Tory leadership ballot suits nobody, only perhaps Keir Starmer

    Even Labour will not benefit from one of two rightwing contenders taking Conservatives off on a strange journey

    James Cleverly, Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Should Cleverly try to choose his opponent in final round?

    Gambling with such a small electorate of 121 MPs could end in humiliating defeat

    The remaining Conservative leadership contenders Robert Jenrick, James Cleverly and Kemi Badenoch
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Starmer’s missions need the government machine to run better

    Previous governments have attempted the Whitehall silo-busting needed by Labour to achieve its five big aims

    Prime minister Keir Starmer making a statement in the House of Commons
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    UK society
    There is such a thing as British culture

    That is why politicians of all stripes should be wary of undermining the BBC

    Ewan White illustration of two royal guards with an old style TV set between a crown and a teapot with the union jack design on a stand behind them
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Starmer corrects Downing Street dysfunction, but will this restore direction?

    Sue Gray’s departure and reset shows PM is quick to adapt, but also suggests he may lack focus

    Keir Starmer on Downing Street steps
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Chagos Islands, British treatment and Tory rivalries

    Conservative leadership hopefuls attack Labour and clash over decision, though there is a historical irony in all this

    James Cleverly
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Conservatives should pick James Cleverly. Here’s why they won’t

    Former home and foreign secretary poses biggest threat to Labour, but members will erroneously choose candidates offering more radical solutions

    James Cleverly speaks at the Conservative party conference
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Why this Tory beauty pageant shouldn’t bet on a Cameron-style turnaround

    Exceptional performer was more able to capture attention than this year’s leadership contenders following Middle East escalation

    Delegates at Conservative party conference yesterday watched news coverage of Iranian missiles being launched into Israel
  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Robert Jenrick likely to be the next Tory leader

    His main rival Kemi Badenoch has lost momentum among MPs, following series of gaffes

    Robert Jenrick at the Conservative party conference
  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    Conservative party UK
    The Conservatives’ biggest problem? Age

    They need to be able to appeal to successful economically liberal graduates again

    Montage image of Tom Tugendhat, Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick and James Cleverly
  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    Inside Politics
    This Tory conference reads like a familiar story, risking a longer spell in opposition

    Leadership frontrunners appear to prescribe moving the party closer to its activist base, but this approach rarely pays off

    Robert Jenrick at Conservative party conference yesterday, in front of a screen displaying the leadership hopefuls vying to succeed Rishi Sunak
  • Sunday, 29 September, 2024
    Conservative party UK
    Sunak warns Tories they risk marginalisation if divisions persist

    Former prime minister urges Conservatives to unite behind who succeeds him as party leader

    Rishi Sunak
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    Inside Politics
    How public perceptions haunt Tories and Labour

    New Conservative leader must reshape image, while Keir Starmer’s party seen as increasingly ‘extreme,’ poll finds

    Rishi Sunak speaking the day after the general election on July 4.
  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Why Keir Starmer’s freebies have cut through to the public

    Unless government can draw a line under the row, it will continue to suck up attention

    Keir Starmer
  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Starmer reveals what needs to get ‘worse’ before it gets better

    PM points to disruption caused by building and hints at need to ‘properly fund policies’ ahead of expected tax rises in Budget

    Keir Starmer at Labour party conference
  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Reeves sets apart Labour’s fiscal approach from the Tories’ and signals more borrowing

    Chancellor reaffirms party pledge to not raise income tax and national insurance

    Rachel Reeves
  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
    Politics
    Every campaign needs a Tim Walz

    Finding someone who can reassure important voter blocs is a key part of any successful election bid

    Illustration of the White House, with Kamala Harris and Tim Walz on the lawn, surrounded by giant legs and feet
  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Starmer faces 2 challenges in Liverpool

    The PM must deliver a speech that activists can cheer about and get a grip on Downing Street

    Keir Starmer delivering a speech
  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Why half of voters think Labour has done a poor job so far

    Dodgy donations, infrastructure challenges and anticipation of October’s ‘painful’ Budget weigh on party’s approval ratings

    Keir Starmer gives a speech
  • Thursday, 19 September, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Why has Sue Gray’s salary stoked unease and vicious briefings?

    Downing Street chief of staff’s £170,000 wage is a blow as special advisers are handed surprisingly low pay settlements

    Sue Gray
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Lib Dem call to tax rich more may be a poor pitch to its base

    Ed Davey urges Labour to increase spending to ‘winterproof’ the NHS in a strategic move

    Ed Davey at the Lib Dem party conference
  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Lib Dem strategy rests on how it responds to Labour and Tories

    After party’s historic results it will double down on being an anti-Conservative force, with Ed Davey deciding how

    Ed Davey holds a Lib Dem umbrella
  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    UK prisons
    Want to fix UK prisons? Let the women out

    Imprisonment is not obviously a good solution to drug addiction or for those who have been coerced into crime

    A Ewan White illustration of a woman in handcuffs holding the bars of her prison cell — with an envelope-sized opening in the bars
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Lib Dems enjoy a festival of calm, but fissures are never far away

    Party will eventually seek to rejoin the EU, but this may spark internal clashes on preferred timing

    Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Starmer has convinced people of the dire challenge but he must respond with action

    Labour hopes to exceed people’s rock-bottom expectations, but recent poll suggests it must do more to win confidence

    UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer
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