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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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  • 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
  • Thursday, 18 July, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Labour’s King’s Speech plans face threats

    Differences in party line on two-child limit and its anti-poverty rhetoric create room for infighting

  • Wednesday, 17 July, 2024
    Inside Politics
    The fall of Vaughan Gething

    Scandals, a vote of no confidence and questions over donations imperilled the Welsh Labour leader

    First Minister of Wales Vaughan Gething giving a speech
  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
    Inside Politics
    How Labour plans to make jobcentres work

    A shift in focus from performance indicators to results is intended to make the employment search much more effective

    People entering a jobcentre in Bath, England
  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
    UK prisons
    The prison dilemma: why Labour may find it so hard to solve

    A new focus on rehabilitation may be scuppered by public concern

    Ewan White illustration of hands in business suit tearing apart a monopoly get out of jail card.
  • Monday, 15 July, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Why the Conservatives are in no rush to find a new leader

    A longer leadership contest helps MPs build momentum around their preferred candidates — and it worked in 2005

    Kemi Badenoch is sworn in as MP in July 2024
  • Friday, 12 July, 2024
    Political Fix podcast41 min listen
    Keir Starmer’s debut on the global stage

    Plus, the FT’s William Wallis on the state of the UK’s dangerously overcrowded prisons

  • Friday, 12 July, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Labour row over two-child benefit cap presses on, but rebels may force Starmer’s hand

    Party’s manifesto commitment to end child poverty piles pressure on government to act

    Keir Starmer in the Commons
  • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Starmer sees overcrowded prisons as ripe for reform — will it work?

    Key ministers in agreement with prime minister’s new penal approach, but putting it into practice carries big risks

    Shabana Mahmood
  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2024
    Inside Politics
    How middle England opened up record Liberal Democrat gains

    This election, voters were more willing to take a chance on Ed Davey’s party, which mounted an eye-catching campaign

    Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey, front right, and deputy leader Daisy Cooper with Lib Dem MPs in Westminster Hall on July 9, 2024
  • Tuesday, 9 July, 2024
    Political Fix podcast35 min listen
    Keir Starmer enters his imperial phase

    What we’ve learned from the new prime minister’s first five days in office

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