Philip StephensPhilip Stephens is an award-winning journalist and a contributing editor at the Financial Times, where he was previously director of the editorial board and chief political commentator. Stephens has won the David Watt Prize for Outstanding Poltical 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: The Making of a World Leader and Britain Alone: The Path from Suez to Brexit. He is British and Irish, brought up in London but with roots in County Mayo. Read More Read Less