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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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  • Monday, 19 August, 2024
    UK crime
    There’s a reason online fraud elicits such a visceral response

    It exploits fellow feeling and gnaws away at the foundations of a civilised society

    Ewan White illustration of an old lady sticking needles in a voodoo doll
  • Monday, 19 August, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Hopes of stopping strikes clash with Labour’s public sector reform agenda

    On-and-off industrial action by trade union Aslef presage rolling disputes not just over pay but also job reforms

    Aslef rail workers stand on a picket line
  • Friday, 16 August, 2024
    Political Fix podcast35 min listen
    How do you solve a problem like Elon Musk?

    Plus, why politicians should not cancel their holidays

  • Friday, 16 August, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Tory leadership contender Mel Stride ‘good on paper’ but his timing is off

    Former UK work and pensions secretary has a strong grasp of the party’s weaknesses, but his own judgments are questionable

    Mel Stride
  • Thursday, 15 August, 2024
    Inside Politics
    How Liberal Democrats should reap the fruits of Labour

    With electoral fortunes of the two parties tied, Ed Davey must seize the opportunity and highlight former coalition’s achievements

    Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey
  • Wednesday, 14 August, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Why the battles for select committee chair are worth watching

    MPs are jostling for roles ahead of September elections, which may well be more significant than the Tory leadership contest

    Tom Tugendhat launches campaign for Tory party leadership in 2022
  • Tuesday, 13 August, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Labour will find politics of immigration easier as net migration drops

    New poll shows public dismay at sharp fall in numbers of people applying to work in social care sector in Britain

    Anti-racist demonstrators outside Merseyside Refugee Centre
  • Monday, 12 August, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Labour may be swift to charge rioters, but bigger strategy remains unclear

    Ministers say Islamophobia and racism partly to blame, but party yet to announce policies beyond those already planned

    Keir Starmer met territorial support group public order officers in a canteen in Lambeth Police headquarters
  • Monday, 12 August, 2024
    Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast21 min listen
    Why museums should keep their mummies and shrunken heads

    The FT’s associate editor Stephen Bush tells guest host Marc Filippino why he believes displays such as mummies and shrunken heads belong in museums

  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
    ReviewPolitical books
    From Labour’s vision for Britain to sewage and struggling prisons

    A clutch of books on British politics aims to diagnose the policy mistakes and leadership failures of recent years

  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Labour’s GP dilemma

    Also in this newsletter, interest rate cut begs question of whether Sunak’s election timing was ill-judged, with questions for both parties

    Wes Streeting campaigns in Worcester
  • Thursday, 1 August, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Tories face up to why they lost their way in office

    Race to replace Rishi Sunak seems designed to favour a rightwinger and Robert Jenrick in particular

    Robert Jenrick
  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Labour’s public sector pay deals were a no-brainer but come with risks

    No 10 has relinquished much of its fiscal firepower in settling rows over salaries

    Junior doctors demonstrate during the British Medical Association’s strike action on June 27 in London
  • Tuesday, 30 July, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Reeves goes big on Tory ‘cover up’, but Labour may fall into same mistakes

    Abandoning infrastructure projects and relying on risky revenue raisers could hamper Labour’s hopes to boost growth

    Rachel Reeves
  • Monday, 29 July, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Braverman was sure to be skipped in first stage of Tory leadership battle

    Plus, Rachel Reeves to deliver sombre message that UK must stay on Labour’s track to revive growth and public services

    Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick
  • Sunday, 28 July, 2024
    British Museum
    Museums must defend their right to treasures

    Pious arguments about modern collections ignore our curiosity about long-dead bodies and the darker side of history

    Ewan White illustration of a man painting over a glass box in a museum containing a mummy.
  • Friday, 26 July, 2024
    Political Fix podcast35 min listen
    Labour confronts £20bn black hole

    Plus, the FT’s Gill Plimmer on the HS2 debacle

  • Friday, 26 July, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Labour’s ‘reveal’ of £20bn hole exposes bigger problem with its fiscal straitjacket

    Party must improve public services to win over voters but tax promises place tough limits on what it can do

    Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer walking down a supermarket aisle
  • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Expect a Tory leadership race mired in bitter and personal fights

    Declared candidates James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat, seen as moderates, try to cater to party right in their pitches

    Tom Tugendhat
  • Wednesday, 24 July, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Labour government quashes first rebellion

    Rows over two-child benefit cap are far from over as seven MPs are suspended

    Keir Starmer
  • Tuesday, 23 July, 2024
    Inside Politics
    The Labour government’s ‘inheritance’ retort will not work on everything

    Blaming Tory mismanagement is much more convincing on public services than it is on immigration

    Home Secretary Yvette Cooper arrives for a cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street
  • Tuesday, 23 July, 2024
    Global Economy
    ‘Eat your greens’ politics brings its own dangers

    Labour should be wary of thinking that doing things that all states should be doing is a shortcut to growth

    Illustration of a person pushing a large coin into a computer game screen and the coin converting into a pixelated version as it goes in
  • Monday, 22 July, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Why Labour’s pledge to fix the Tory mess means tax rises

    The government will say it inherited chaos, the opposition that Labour is a ‘big state’ party — there’s a ring of truth in both attack lines

    Rachel Reeves
  • Friday, 19 July, 2024
    Political Fix podcast34 min listen
    Labour's growth fixation

    Plus, is Keir Starmer driving Britain back into the arms of Europe?

  • Friday, 19 July, 2024
    Inside Politics
    What Keir Starmer’s cabinet picks tell us about his approach to government

    Outsiders will provide expertise, but numerous long-standing allies have been overlooked

    Emily Thornberry
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