Philip Stephens

Philip Stephens is a writer, commentator and historian. He is a visiting senior fellow at the School for Transnational Governance of the European University Institute, Florence, and a Richard von Weizsacker fellow at the Bosch Academy in Berlin. He is the author of Britain Alone: the Path from Suez to Brexit (2021). Stephens is a Contributing Editor at the Financial Times where he was previously Director of the Editorial Board and Chief Political Commentator. He is an Honorary Governor of the Ditchley Foundation and a member of the steering group of the Anglo-French Colloque. 

He has won the three main prizes in British political journalism, being named as winner of the David Watt prize for Outstanding Political Journalism, as Political Journalist of the Year by the UK Political Studies Association, and as Political Journalist of the Year in the British Press Awards. He is the author of Politics and the Pound, a study of British economic and European policy, and of Tony Blair, the Price of Leadership, a biography of the former prime minister.