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Robert Shrimsley

Editorial director and UK political commentator
Robert Shrimsley is editorial director 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 and managing editor of FT.com.
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  • Sunday, 24 November, 2019
    Instant InsightUK general election
    Johnson plays a defensive game with Tory manifesto

    Promises of tax freezes and spending on public services aim to gain electorate’s blessing

  • Friday, 22 November, 2019
    UK general election
    The Tories turn fake news into a policy platform

    Over the top spending promises and other UK election absurdities

  • Thursday, 21 November, 2019
    Instant InsightUK general election
    Labour’s promised transformation is an assault on business

    The sheer scale of proposals offers chance to harness anger in favour of higher tax

  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2019
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Prince Andrew and other royal car-crash interviews

    How would Richard III or Henry II have responded to an Emily Maitlis grilling?

  • Monday, 18 November, 2019
    UK general election
    Without Brexit, we would not know what Johnson stands for 

    Voters know exactly what Jeremy Corbyn believes in. The prime minister is harder to pin down

  • Friday, 15 November, 2019
    UK general election
    Britain is cocking a deaf ear to the election

    Only rarely are politicians’ pledges cutting through to the voters

  • Friday, 15 November, 2019
    Instant InsightLabour Party UK
    Labour’s broadband plan shows nationalisation’s appeal

    Conservatives should worry that Corbyn is winning the argument

  • Friday, 15 November, 2019
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Standing firm against the tech-shamers

    ‘Lay off my iPod. In a few years you’ll all want one’

  • Thursday, 14 November, 2019
    UK general election21 min
    How Brexit's Leave and Remain alliances are shaping the election

    The FT's Robert Shrimsley and Miranda Green sketch out the plots, pacts and possibilities

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  • Monday, 11 November, 2019
    UK general election
    Farage clings to the limelight while keeping Brexit alive

    Watching him cull half his party’s candidates was to see a man facing the final curtain

  • Friday, 8 November, 2019
    UK general election
    Fear and loathing on the campaign trail

    Redefining Brexit, dodgy Stalin analogies and the tale of the disappearing Welsh secretary

  • Thursday, 7 November, 2019
    UK general election25 min
    UK general election: drawing the battle lines

    FT's Robert Shrimsley and Miranda Green map out the key battlegrounds

  • Thursday, 7 November, 2019
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    How to talk on WTO terms (aka gibberish)

    The phrase has crept into the public discourse, although no one has any idea what it means

  • Monday, 4 November, 2019
    UK general election
    Don’t write off Labour: Corbyn can win without winning

    Seats lost to the Scottish Nationalists or Lib Dems are still in the anti-Tory column

  • Friday, 1 November, 2019
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Why I’m already missing my half-term breaks

    They were a nightmare of logistics and Legoland trips — but how do I adjust to the no-kids, freewheelin’ life

  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2019
    Brexit20 min
    Video: How Boris Johnson's Brexit election gamble maps out

    FT's Robert Shrimsley and Miranda Green sketch the path to power

  • Monday, 28 October, 2019
    Brexit
    Brexit is now hostage to electoral calculations

    It would be naive to think any party is indifferent to a vote, but the degrees of enthusiasm tell us a lot

  • Friday, 25 October, 2019
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    When going out is the new staying in

    Robert Shrimsley on the trend for venues that pretend to be your front room

  • Thursday, 24 October, 2019
    Instant InsightBrexit
    For Johnson, pre-Brexit election worth the gamble 

    But opposition parties will be wary of wandering into a trap laid by the prime minister

  • Tuesday, 22 October, 2019
    Instant InsightBrexit
    Parliamentary reverse leaves Johnson’s Brexit plan in limbo

    Hostage to delay and wrecking amendments the prime minister still faces fierce battle

  • Monday, 21 October, 2019
    Brexit
    MPs must back this deal or force an election

    The lack of any decision is intensifying public contempt — it is time to end the impasse

  • Saturday, 19 October, 2019
    Instant InsightBrexit
    Johnson can still see the path to Brexit victory

    The Letwin amendment defeat is a setback, but not a fatal blow to the PM’s ambitions

  • Friday, 18 October, 2019
    FT Politics: UK Election Countdown podcast32 min listen
    Boris Johnson’s new Brexit deal: details and drama

    A week of intense diplomacy and the PM has an agreement — will it pass parliament?

  • Friday, 18 October, 2019
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Mumsnet and the great margarine boycott

    Flora fleeing the parenting website is about corporate capitulation not transgender activism

  • Thursday, 17 October, 2019
    Instant InsightBrexit
    The Boris Johnson Brexit deal dissected

    Achieving Commons approval for the agreement is a tough challenge for the UK prime minister

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