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    Robert Shrimsley

    UK chief political commentator and UK editor at large

    Robert Shrimsley is UK chief political commentator and UK editor at large 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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    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
      FT MagazineLife & Arts
      Memo to staff: dress fabulously

      Do we want our lawyers to ‘express themselves to the full’?

    • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
      UK politics & policy
      Conservatives are forced to face the economic case for net zero

      The green industrial revolution is coming: ministers need to back a Tory plan to embrace it and prosper

    • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
      Northern Ireland
      Sunak faces crunch decision on post-Brexit Northern Ireland

      Deal takes shape on trading arrangements but unionists and Eurosceptics still need to be brought on board

    • Sunday, 29 January, 2023
      Instant InsightUK politics & policy
      Zahawi affair raises doubts over Sunak’s ruthlessness

      Sometimes political leadership requires acting on gut instinct rather than sheltering behind investigations

    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
      FT MagazineLife & Arts
      How the reborn high street is making us both fat and fit

      Old banks are turning into cafés or fitness centres. Perhaps a new social divide is on its way

    • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
      Conservative Party UK
      Careless conservatism is killing Sunak’s effort to save his party

      Hit by a series of mini scandals, the studious prime minister is starting to look weak

    • Monday, 23 January, 2023
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      Labour vows to rebuild international reputation of ‘isolated’ UK

      Shadow foreign secretary says repairing relations with the EU will be a priority if elected

    • Friday, 20 January, 2023
      FT MagazineMusic
      What Shakira gets wrong about men and their cars

      The star’s diss track about her ex, Gerard Piqué, proves our stereotypes about motors need updating

    • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
      Brexit
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      The EU must help Rishi Sunak face down hardliners to break the logjam

    • Friday, 13 January, 2023
      FT MagazineLife & Arts
      The misery of the always-switched-on parent

      My phone allows me to monitor my daughter’s late night journey home. But is that a good thing?

    • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
      UK politics & policy
      British politics is still suffering from ‘long populism’

      Sunak is refusing to confront reality, just like his predecessors

    • Wednesday, 4 January, 2023
      Conservative Party UK
      Boris Johnson is the itch Tories must stop scratching

      The former leader’s return is unlikely but it is a sign of the Conservatives’ malaise that so many still dream of it

    • Friday, 23 December, 2022
      FT MagazineLife & Arts
      How my farfetched predictions for 2022 came true

      Three prime ministers and a birthday cake: a year in British politics

    • Friday, 16 December, 2022
      FT MagazineLife & Arts
      Your views on Harry and Meghan once indicated your social values. Not any more

      Even those who sympathised with the Sussexes fear they’re ‘overdoing it’ with their new Netflix series

    • Wednesday, 14 December, 2022
      Conservative Party UK
      Tories are selling their future for short-term salvation

      Instead of backing older generations, the party needs to make political choices to appeal to working-age voters

    • Friday, 9 December, 2022
      FT MagazineLife & Arts
      The problem of everything being too convenient

      How did we become people for whom a minor mishap equals household disaster?

    • Wednesday, 7 December, 2022
      Conservative Party UK
      The Conservatives risk being consumed by Faragism

      With its leaders pandering to the right, the party is pushed into ever more incendiary promises it cannot deliver on

    • Wednesday, 30 November, 2022
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      Pressure for constitutional change is gathering momentum but England could end up paying the price

    • Friday, 25 November, 2022
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      Why not have a festival of sporting corruption?

      Forget furtive backhanders and brown envelopes – let’s get it out in the open and turn it into an international sport

    • Wednesday, 23 November, 2022
      Brexit
      The true Brexit divide is now between pragmatists and zealots

      Both Sunak and Starmer face ultras within their parties who are not keen on compromise

    • Friday, 18 November, 2022
      FT MagazineLife & Arts
      These days the Irish are telling English jokes

      Other countries no longer engage in Brit-bashing – they now treat us with pity and concern

    • Thursday, 17 November, 2022
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      Hunt and Sunak are down to their last grains of hope

      The Autumn Statement was managed as well as possible but the outlook is grim

    • Wednesday, 16 November, 2022
      Autumn Statement
      Low taxes cannot be the core Conservative mission

      The party should abandon its Thatcher tribute act and focus on the public’s priorities for fiscal policy

    • Wednesday, 9 November, 2022
      Keir Starmer
      Labour hopes hang on the battle of Starmer vs Starmer

      Clashing demands to both reassure and inspire voters hobble the UK opposition leader’s electoral prospects

    • Friday, 4 November, 2022
      FT MagazineLife & Arts
      Confessions of a north Londoner

      What if the Conservatives are on to something and my deviations are the results of endemic north Londonism?

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