Tim Shipman is Political Editor of The Spectator magazine, a post he took up in June of this year. Previously he spent 11 years as the Chief Political Commentator and also Political Editor at the Sunday Times,

His quartet of books on the turmoil in British politics in the decade after the Brexit referendum have sold more than 150,000 copies and are widely regarded as the definitive insider account of the most turbulent time in domestic politics since the Second World War.

An engaging, informed and amusing speaker, Tim is widely acknowledged to have the best contacts in the business and uses them to help lift the veil on what is really going on and who is doing what to who in Westminster and beyond.

Tim is one of the most decorated political journalist of the last few years, garnering fourteen nominations for major awards, including ten in seven years at the British Press Awards, the newspaper industry's Oscars, He has won a unique double, being named both political reporter and political commentator of the year.

Tim has been reporting from Westminster since 2001, covering seven general elections, three referendums, two wars and countless leadership contests. He has also reported on four US elections and conducted one of just two British print interviews with Donald Trump, giving him a unique perspective on the links between British and American politics.

Tim is a regular on the Today programme and the co-presenter of Times Radio's PMQs Unpacked show. He is an experienced broadcaster on the BBC and Sky News and has made appearances on Have I Got News For You and The News Quiz.