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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)

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

  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
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    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

  • Wednesday, 14 February, 2024
    Conservative Party UK
    The Conservatives have been unwitting handmaidens to statism

    The UK has experienced the steady and stealthy erosion of individual freedoms

    Ewan White illustration of Rishi Sunak running away from a row of huge ID cards toppling towards him
  • Monday, 12 February, 2024
    Politics23 min
    Sketchy Politics: the rules of the electoral race

    The FT's UK chief political commentator Robert Shrimsley and deputy opinion editor Miranda Green discuss how outlying runners could affect the election result

    Sketchy politics: gallop polls
  • Friday, 9 February, 2024
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    Plus, how popular are the Liz Truss Popular Conservatives?

  • Friday, 9 February, 2024
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    Me, Taylor Swift and the Super Bowl plot to save America

    A plot of this complexity requires absolute precision. But we’re confident that by next week US democracy will be safe

    An illustration of Taylor Swift singing at the Super Bowl, with five tiny figures of Donald Trump at her feet, trying to push her off the stage
  • Wednesday, 7 February, 2024
    UK general election
    Mandates are overrated — Keir Starmer just needs the win

    Labour doesn’t need detailed pledges because if the party is voted in it will have scope for change

    Ewan White illustration of Keir Starmer giving a speech, while gesticulating wildly and pointing in both directions
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    A cunning plan to save the planet and museums all at once

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  • Wednesday, 31 January, 2024
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    Rishi Sunak’s ‘Italian Job’ moment

    Wobbles damage the prime minister but Tory critics have no solutions — and are implicated in the years of chaos

    Ellie Foreman-Peck illustration of Rishi reaching for ballot slips in a bus about to go off the cliff
  • Friday, 26 January, 2024
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    Who’s behind the Tory plots?

    Plus, the dire state of local authority finances

  • Friday, 26 January, 2024
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    40 per cent price rise? That’s our policy!

    The grim dance of insurance renewal is back

  • Wednesday, 24 January, 2024
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    SNP’s new strategy exposes nationalists’ desperation

    Humza Yousaf cannot offer a convincing route to the independence his party demands

    Ellie Foreman-Peck illustration of Humza Yousaf looking three ways in front of the Scottish flag.
  • Friday, 19 January, 2024
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    It’s the label du jour, but are sales reps taking us for suckers?

  • Wednesday, 17 January, 2024
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    Both parties are in denial about the importance and the scale of the financial crisis in higher education

    Ellie Foreman-Peck illustration of a mortarboard slowly sinking, with a fish swimming away from it
  • Friday, 12 January, 2024
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    The Post Office scandal: who foots the bill?

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    Prolonged coughing fits, aching muscles and howling like a water buffalo: welcome to a gloriously retro disease that we assumed had been vaccinated out of existence a century ago

  • Wednesday, 10 January, 2024
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    Why Starmer will not tread lightly on voters’ lives

    Labour’s traditions of government activism are strong and the public will expect improvements in hollowed-out state services

    Illustration of Keir Starmer trying to tread lightly on a trembling land under his feet
  • Friday, 5 January, 2024
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    The FT’s top minds consider what’s at stake in a historic year for elections worldwide

  • Friday, 22 December, 2023
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  • Wednesday, 20 December, 2023
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    If the Conservatives won’t stand up for their record, they invite UK voters to agree that they deserve a long spell in opposition

    Illustration of Rishi Sunak, Boris Johnson and David Cameron sitting on a tree branch while Rishi Sunak saws through the branch where it joins the trunk
  • Friday, 15 December, 2023
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  • Friday, 15 December, 2023
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    My struggle to live without an iPhone — for two whole hours

    A Range Rover crushed my mobile and proved that constant contact is a dependency bordering on addiction

    Cartoon of part of the left rear wheel and back of a Range Rover. On the ground behind it is a shattered mobile phone with various emoticons coming out of it
  • Wednesday, 13 December, 2023
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    Sunak’s Rwanda fight is really a battle for control of the Conservatives

    The Brexit ultras resent the realism that the prime minister has sprinkled into government

    Illustration of Rishi Sunak being carried off to the right by little people in blue suits.
  • Friday, 8 December, 2023
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    When I grow up I want to be president

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