Philip Stephens (born 2 June 1953)STEPHENS, Philip Francis Christopher
''Who's Who 2015'', A & C Black, 2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 is an

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journalist and author.

Biography

Philip Stephens is associate editor, chief political commentator, and director of the editorial board of the

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. He writes a weekly column for the FT. He was educated at

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and at

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, where he took an honours degree in modern history. He joined

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as a correspondent in

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and

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before moving to the

newspaper in 1983. There he has worked as economics editor, political editor and editor of the UK edition. He is Vice-Chair of the Trustees of the

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and member of the board of the Franco-British Colloque. He has won several journalism prizes, including Political Journalist of the Year in the British press awards, The David Watt prize, and the Political Studies Association Political Journalist of the Year. He wrote the book ''Politics and the Pound'', a study of the management of exchange rates by the British Government, and its relations with Europe since 1979. He also wrote a biography of

Tony Blair Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He previously served as Leader of th ...

, when the latter was

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.Stephens, Philip
''Tony Blair: The Price of Leadership''
Politico's, 2004,

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Financial Times biography
accessed 22 September 2014 Place of birth missing (living people) 1953 births Living people English male journalists English newspaper editors English writers People educated at Wimbledon College Alumni of Worcester College, Oxford {{UK-journalist-stub