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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, 22 November, 2024
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Ask Shrimsley: what’s it like not being on Ozempic?

    First, rude. Second,  here’s my diary of not joining the queue for the super drug

  • Saturday, 16 November, 2024
    ReviewBooks
    Triumph to tragedy — a cautionary tale of politics

    Two books, from Anthony Seldon and Tim Shipman, capture the decline of the Conservative party

    Three people in a room, one is standing waving his arms in the air, a woman is sitting and amother man in a scarf is standing, holding a laptop
  • Friday, 15 November, 2024
    FT MagazineUS-UK relations
    Ask Shrimsley: how do I keep a relationship special?

    If you’re buttering up a US president, neediness and flattery will get you everywhere

  • Thursday, 14 November, 2024
    UK foreign policy
    Donald Trump, the final facilitator of Brexit

    Britain must relearn the art of the deal or risks being buffeted by big power politics

    Ellie Foreman-Peck illustration of Trump’s hair as a tsunami over Westminster
  • Friday, 8 November, 2024
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Ask Shrimsley: can you BBC Verify that for me?

    Is the Beeb being self righteous again? Or offering us a model for reinforcing our own cred when others doubt it?

  • Thursday, 7 November, 2024
    Populism
    Anger is the defining energy of western politics

    Quelling the rage is a democratic imperative across the world

    Illustration of a politician at a lectern with his clenched fist held up and his head on fire
  • Friday, 1 November, 2024
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Ask Shrimsley: Am I a real working person?

    So what if you work and you’re a person? In what way is that a qualification?

  • Friday, 1 November, 2024
    Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast31 min listen
    Culture Chat: the bonkbuster world of ‘Rivals’

    We discuss ‘Rivals’, the Disney+ adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s romance novel. Lilah is joined by Robert Shrimsley and Harriet Fitch Little

  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Goodbye to low-tax Britain

    One does not need to subscribe to hyperbolic Tory rhetoric to recognise that this Budget heralded a major shift

    Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves walks with the red budget box outside her office on Downing Street in London
  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Ask Shrimsley: Can I call you Rob?

    Barely a week goes by without someone deciding it’s friendly to shorten my name. This is a basic misjudgment 

    An illustration of Robert Shrimsley carrying a takeaway coffee up with the initial ‘R’ on the side
  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Reeves should embrace the freedom of disapproval

    The UK chancellor and PM Keir Starmer need to dispense with the excessive caution of opposition

    Ellie Foreman-Peck illustration of the red Budget briefcase with a barbed wire handle
  • Friday, 18 October, 2024
    Political Fix podcast38 min listen
    Cabinet fightback: the revolt over spending

    Plus, the English justice system in crisis

  • Friday, 18 October, 2024
    FT MagazineTelevision
    Ask Shrimsley: were the ’80s as much fun as Jilly Cooper says?

    Absolutely. Although I don’t remember doing any of that stuff myself

  • Thursday, 17 October, 2024
    UK politics21 min
    Sketchy Politics: Labour pains

    How will Labour handle their first Budget?

    Sketchy Politics: Labour pains
  • Thursday, 17 October, 2024
    Conservative party UK
    Why Tory leaders win the diversity challenge

    The party’s recent record shows that Badenoch’s ascent to leadership favourite is no accident

    Ellie Foreman-Peck illustration of different hands clasping each other’s wrists.
  • Friday, 11 October, 2024
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Ask Shrimsley: Am I a comedy Jew?

    Amid unfunny stereotypes, these portrayals of neurotic families contain some uncomfortable truths

  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    UK Government
    The battle of Labour’s three brains

    Tensions between the priorities of working people and progressive supporters are now complicated by the Treasury

    Illustration of three glass jars with brains inside: working people brain, progressive brain and treasury brain
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Ask Shrimsley: I’ve borked Britain. Is it time to write my memoirs?

    Yes, please do. Everyone is dying to know why it wasn’t your fault

  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    UK politics
    The new Conservative class war

    Badenoch’s attack on an overweening state seeks to imitate Thatcher’s case against the overmighty trade unions

    Illustration of a room full of desks stretching into the distance with bored-looking dragons sitting at each desk, writing, daydreaming, playing with a ball of wool and so on
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    Political Fix podcast26 min listen
    Starmer’s ‘weird’ week: from Liverpool to New York

    Plus, Labour plots how to grow an economy when the state coffers are empty

  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Ask Shrimsley: Am I a bad person for taking freebies?

    There are reasons to complain about the prime minister accepting gifts. The one thing it’s not is detached from normal people — most would do exactly the same

  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    UK Government
    The British state is not fit for Starmer’s purpose

    Labour ministers find that their newly active government stands on atrophying limbs

    Illustration of Keir Starmer holding a sword with the words ‘After Hobbes’ in the bottom right corner
  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Ask Shrimsley: shouldn’t you have fled the country by now?

    Britain’s richest plumber is the latest mogul threatening to leave the UK. Good for him

    An illustration of a man with glasses holding a coffee cup, wearing a black jacket over a light blue shirt. The background is solid red, and the coffee cup has a green circle with the letter “R” on it
  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast23 min listen
    Culture Chat: Is ‘Slow Horses’ losing speed?

    ‘Slow Horses’ is beloved. But does its fourth season hold up?

  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    UK politics
    Westminster’s big two and the new race for political space

    The UK’s duopoly of Labour and Conservatives has never looked more vulnerable

    Three people - one green one yellow and one blue - pull on a rope that is tied around Big Ben, which is coloured in blue and red and leans towards the ground
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