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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, 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

    1 hour ago
  • 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.
  • Wednesday, 29 May, 2024
    UK general election 202420 min
    Sketchy Politics: Starmy weather

    Robert Shrimsley and Miranda Green have a clear plan, a bold umbrella, and are stockpiling canned food

    Sketchy Politics: Starmy weather
  • Saturday, 25 May, 2024
    ReviewPolitical books
    UK general election 2024: what books to read ahead of the July 4 ballot

    A selection of the most insightful titles on the race for Downing Street by FT experts

    Photographs of Boris Johnson, Rory Stewart, Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer against a background of the union jack and a large tick
  • Friday, 24 May, 2024
    Political Fix podcast41 min listen
    Bring it on! Election 2024 kicks off

    What to watch out for in the campaign

  • Friday, 24 May, 2024
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Ask Shrimsley: do I really have to give you a five-star rating?

    It used to be the mark of true excellence, now it just means your delivery rider did not eat your food on the way round

  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    A last gamble for a UK prime minister who has run out of road

    With nothing on the horizon likely to dramatically improve, Sunak has decided to seize the economic moment

    Illustration of Rishi Sunak holding up his hands and shrugging at the lecturn outside 10 Downing Street
  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    UK infected blood scandal
    The real face of the Deep State

    From the infected blood scandal to the Post Office saga, the dead hand of officialdom is everywhere in the UK

    Ellie Foreman-Peck illustration of blood bags on a tilted scales of justice.
  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Ask Shrimsley: how do I get my kids off their phones?

    Google it! Just kidding

  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    Scottish politics20 min
    Sketchy Politics: Sunak's sinking feeling

    The FT's UK political commentator Robert Shrimsley and deputy opinion editor Miranda Green sketch out Rishi Sunak's defectors, the fallout from the recent elections, and political drama in Scotland

    Sketchy Politics: that sinking feeling
  • Friday, 10 May, 2024
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Ask Shrimsley: is it time to try glamping?

    The answer may depend on where you’re starting from

  • Wednesday, 8 May, 2024
    Conservative party UK
    The Tory right has one last job for Rishi Sunak

    Having given up on removing the prime minister, their mission now is to make him the fall guy

    Ellie Foreman-Peck illustration of many fingers pointing at Rishi Sunak
  • Friday, 3 May, 2024
    Political Fix podcast36 min listen
    Election special — local poll results roll in

    Tories in trouble after election losses

  • Friday, 3 May, 2024
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Ask Shrimsley: what does ‘mansplaining’ mean these days?

    No man is safe from the accusation — except perhaps David Attenborough

  • Wednesday, 1 May, 2024
    Labour party UK
    The second coming of Ed Miliband

    Labour’s shadow energy secretary could be among the most powerful — and radical — of Starmer’s close allies

    Caricature of Ed Miliband holding a document titled ‘Clean Energy Wind Farms’
  • Monday, 29 April, 2024
    Instant InsightScottish National party
    Political gravity catches up with the SNP

    Humza Yousaf played a bad hand dreadfully but a reckoning for the party was unavoidable

    Hamza Yousaf walks away from a podium after speaking. A Scotland flag hangs in the background
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