Philip Stephens

Philip Stephens is an award-winning journalist and contributing editor at the Financial Times, where he was director of the Editorial Board and chief political commentator. Stephens won the David Watt Prize for Outstanding Political Journalism; the Political Studies Association's Journalist of the Year; and Political Journalist of the Year in the Press Awards. He is the author of Politics and the Pound, Tony Blair and Britain Alone. He is British and Irish, brought up in London but with roots in