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Stephen Bush

Columnist and Associate Editor

Stephen Bush is an associate editor and columnist at the Financial Times. He writes a daily newsletter, Inside Politics, charting the course of politics and policy in the United Kingdom, and a wide-ranging weekly column. You can subscribe to Inside Politics here.

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  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Lib Dem strategy rests on how it responds to Labour and Tories

    After party’s historic results it will double down on being an anti-Conservative force, with Ed Davey deciding how

    Ed Davey holds a Lib Dem umbrella
  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    UK prisons
    Want to fix UK prisons? Let the women out

    Imprisonment is not obviously a good solution to drug addiction or for those who have been coerced into crime

    A Ewan White illustration of a woman in handcuffs holding the bars of her prison cell — with an envelope-sized opening in the bars
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Lib Dems enjoy a festival of calm, but fissures are never far away

    Party will eventually seek to rejoin the EU, but this may spark internal clashes on preferred timing

    Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Starmer has convinced people of the dire challenge but he must respond with action

    Labour hopes to exceed people’s rock-bottom expectations, but recent poll suggests it must do more to win confidence

    UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Labour’s NHS reform conundrum

    Need to raise funding for institution could sharply limit government’s capacity to improve other public services

    Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting visit University College London Hospital to see how Proton Beam therapy is used
  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Tory party conference gives leader candidates chance to upend fight

    David Cameron’s 10-minute pitch at the 2005 event was enough to secure him a strong following

    Mel Stride and Robert Jenrick walk out of Number 10
  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    Inside Politics
    BBC still dominates as news consumption shifts from TV to online

    Public service broadcaster allows the public access to a decent set of agreed facts, no matter your politics

    Representatives from the UK’s main parties take part in a live TV debate on the BBC on June 7 2024 ahead of the UK general election
  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    Not everyone needs to have an opinion on AI

    Too many organisations feel compelled to speak out on matters outside their control

    Ewan White illustration o of a thinker holding his chin with his hand, drawn on a background of red computer digits,
  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Starmer faces his biggest rebellion yet, but it won’t matter in the long run

    More important is whether Labour can revive public services amid an ageing population and spending cuts

    Keir Starmer in the House of Commons
  • Friday, 6 September, 2024
    Inside Politics
    The four Ps Labour needs to get right to stay in power

    The state of ‘patients, policing, potholes and prosperity’ will determine its legacy, but Starmer’s inheritance is bad across the board

    Medical staff accompany a patient on a trolley at the Royal London Hospital
  • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
    Conservative party UK
    What makes this Tory leadership race hard to predict

    Also in this newsletter, systemic failures were spotted decades before Grenfell fire and the UK still lacks adequate regulatory regime

    Priti Patel
  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Starmer’s test is whether UK will make genuine progress after Budget pain

    PM hopes his bold decision-making as Labour leader will translate into a revival of public services in office

    Keir Starmer in a hard hat
  • Tuesday, 3 September, 2024
    Inside Politics
    My worries about the end of Ofsted’s one-word grading

    Unclear whether Labour government’s new report card system will answer concerns raised following Ruth Perry’s death

    Keir Starmer and Bridget Phillipson in a classroom
  • Tuesday, 3 September, 2024
    Film
    Bad movies prove profit can be a force for good in film

    The new Alien movie shows the mess that can occur when studios stop thinking about the bottom line

    Illustration of a billboard poster being changed with a movie poster being pasted over a giant $100 bill
  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    Political Fix podcast35 min listen
    Labour’s descent into ‘miserabilism’

    Plus, who’s up and who’s down in the Tory leadership race

  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Kemi Badenoch’s appeal to Tories is a double-edged sword

    Former business secretary shows courage, but has never demonstrated any desire to add new people to her tent

    Kemi Badenoch
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Robert Jenrick diagnosed Tory party’s ails, but can he follow through on recovery?

    His sacking by Boris Johnson may overshadow his career and he lacks expertise in winning MPs over

    Robert Jenrick
  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Starmer lays ground for unpopular moves, though pay-off is uncertain

    Labour’s options for tax rises and spending cuts in Budget risk public hardship and political difficulty

    Keir Starmer, Britain's Prime Minister, stands at the entrance of 10 Downing Street. He is wearing a dark suit, light blue patterned tie, and glasses.
  • Tuesday, 27 August, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Reader Q&A: Labour’s self-denying tax pledges mean hard medicine to come

    Plus, why do politicians avoid talking about our ageing population?

    Rachel Reeves
  • Tuesday, 27 August, 2024
    Global migration
    The drawbacks of politicians’ immigration balancing act

    Working from purely economic or electoral motives neglects the key to integration

    Illustration of people balancing on a plank that is itself balancing on a globe
  • Friday, 23 August, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Reader Q&A: Lessons from 2017, Labour’s recipe for re-election and Reform’s potential

    The first part in a series tackling subscribers’ questions

    Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May
  • Friday, 23 August, 2024
    Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast24 min listen
    Culture chat: ‘Alien: Romulus’ is all horror, no guts

    The latest instalment of the epic sci-fi franchise came out in cinemas last week. Horatia Harrod and Stephen Bush join to discuss

  • Thursday, 22 August, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Cleverly should be Tory party’s obvious pick for leader

    But shadow home secretary appears reluctant to press for much-needed tough changes within the opposition

    James Cleverly
  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Tory leadership hopeful Tom Tugendhat looks the part but would he be ready?

    Ex-soldier appeals to former Lib Dem voters, a key asset if Tories are to regain territory at next election

    Conservative leadership hopeful Tom Tugendhat trying to hand harvest sea salt
  • Tuesday, 20 August, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Priti Patel’s Tory leadership bid won’t get past her deep unpopularity

    Opposition leaders win elections by showing they have changed their party for the better

    Priti Patel at Conservative party conference
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