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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.
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    • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
      Daily Telegraph
      Spare us the sanctimony on fit and proper media owners

      The UAE-Telegraph deal should probably be blocked but the roll call of UK press barons is hardly one to shout about

      Illustration of hands guiding a person to read a newspaper.
    • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
      Politics23 min
      Sketchy Politics: Sunak sets out his stall for the election

      How the British prime minister hopes to tempt voters to support the Conservatives

      Sketchy Politics: Sunak's election offer
    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      FT MagazineLife & Arts
      The real question over The Crown and the Ghostly Di

      The ham-fisted haunting in the new series of ‘The Crown’ is too little too late

    • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
      Autumn Statement
      A Tory chancellor walks into a bar . . . 

      Hunt has given the Conservatives a story to tell the voters but no one should assume it has a happy ending

      Jeremy Hunt after delivering the Autumn Statement
    • Friday, 17 November, 2023
      FT MagazineLife & Arts
      I’m a foreign secretary, get me back in there

      As the Lord of Leave jets off to the jungle, the political recognition is going once again to a familiar insider

    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
      Conservative Party UK
      Sunak, a ‘Brexity Cameron’, has handed his enemies a sword

      Braverman may not be the beneficiary, but the right will now seek to blame the centre-right cabinet for election defeat

      Ellie Foreman-Peck illustration of David Cameron as the joker and Suella Braverman the queen of hearts in a shuffled pack of cards
    • Monday, 13 November, 2023
      Instant InsightConservative Party UK
      Sunak reshuffle shows a government running on empty

      The prime minister picks a fight with the right as the pragmatists return

      Four men in suits
    • Friday, 10 November, 2023
      FT MagazineLife & Arts
      Christmas comes under threat from the Christmas ad

      The perpetually outraged have turned their sights on Marks and Spencer’s festive message

    • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
      Inside Politics
      Sunak should ditch running campaign on five pledges

      Options to show public Tory renewal are falling away as party trails Labour by 20 points in polls

      Rishi Sunak
    • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
      Rishi Sunak
      The strategic confusion at the heart of Rishi Sunak’s final push

      Embodying change worked for his more shameless predecessor but this prime minister has failed to make a break

      Ellie Foreman-Peck illustration of King Charles III giving a speech.
    • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
      UK general election26 min
      Sketchy Politics: mapping the next election | FT

      The FT's Robert Shrimsley and Miranda Green trace out the political landscape

      Sketchy politics: The battleground
    • Friday, 3 November, 2023
      FT MagazineLife & Arts
      Humanity is out of control, and AI is worried

      Concerns were raised at a Human Safety Summit held by leading AI systems at a server farm outside Las Vegas

      An illustration of a robot shaking Rishi Sunak’s hand while he stands behind a lectern at the AI safety summit
    • Wednesday, 1 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      The perils of an unquestioning ‘album culture’ in politics

      Labour’s row over the Israel-Hamas war is indicative of forcing an entire set of positions on supporters of both left and right

      Ellie Foreman-Peck illustration of protesters on Westminster bridge with the houses of parliament and Big Ben in the distance.
    • Friday, 13 October, 2023
      FT MagazineLife & Arts
      It’s all ‘change’ for Rishi Sunak and me

      The prime minister has attempted to convince the public that he is the change, so everything can stay the same

    • Wednesday, 11 October, 2023
      UK politics
      Forget the glitter — Starmer offers hope as a mechanic, not a magician

      The first task of an opposition is to ensure the voters have a viable choice. Labour is electable and the credit for that is his

      Illustration of a pensive Keir Starmer surrounded by a cloud of glitter
    • Friday, 6 October, 2023
      FT MagazineLife & Arts
      Don’t they know there’s a war against motorists on? 

      Our brave correspondent reports live from Sunak’s latest frontline

    • Thursday, 5 October, 2023
      Political Fix podcast32 min listen
      Rishi Sunak’s ‘questionable radicalism’

      Plus: have the Tories betrayed voters in the north?

    • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
      Rishi Sunak
      Sunak’s strategy makes Starmer the real election issue

      The Conservatives cannot be a party of change, but they can destabilise Labour’s promises of being one

      Ellie Foreman-Peck illustration of Rishi Sunak giving a speech while standing on Keir Starmer’s head
    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      FT MagazineLife & Arts
      Bismarck, Truss and why timing is everything in politics

      ‘Bad timing is not a minor mistake. It is a fundamental error of judgment. In a political leader, it is unpardonable’

    • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
      UK politics
      Rishi Sunak’s new strategy exposes 13 years of Tory failure

      Any attempts at reinvention are hampered by a governing record the prime minister can’t escape

      Illustration of Rishi Sunak, Boris Johnson, Theresa May and David Cameron sat on a tiny train
    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      FT MagazineLife & Arts
      Living next door to a jailbreak

      A recent high-profile prison escape hit closer to home than anticipated

    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      ReviewPolitical books
      The Abuse of Power — Theresa May points the finger of blame

      Unreflective of her own failings, the former PM is big on public duty but weak on solutions

      A woman in blue walks towards a podium
    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      UK politics
      Sunak’s Conservatives are betting against the future

      There has been a breakdown in the economic promise that previously swung voters to the right as they got older

      Illustration of a chart line which is mostly red with a short section of blue. Above the red line is a crawling baby, then a child, then an adult and an older adult. Above the blue line is a very old person and a grave
    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      FT MagazineSocial Media
      How social media killed the protest

      For a certain kind of activist, politics has been reduced to pure performance

    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      Conservative Party UK
      The plot to smash the Conservative party

      Either by starting a new party, or seeking to steer the existing Tories to the right, the populists are on the move

      Illustration of the Conservative tree logo with two people taking axes to its trunk
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