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Miranda Green

Deputy Opinion Editor

Miranda Green has served as a UK and world news editor for the Financial Times, and has been the paper’s education and political correspondent. She helped found The Day to assist schools teaching current affairs to teenagers, and worked for the Liberal Democrat party in the House of Commons from 1995 to 2000.

Miranda was named Culture, Diary and Social Commentator of the Year in the 2018 Comment Awards.

Email Miranda Green @greenmiranda  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
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    Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson holding her painting of sunflowers, alongside pupils Wyatt, aged 4 (left), and Aicha, aged 4, during a visit to the school-based nursery at Ark Start Oval, East Croydon
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    Political Fix podcast26 min listen
    Starmer’s ‘weird’ week: from Liverpool to New York

    Plus, Labour plots how to grow an economy when the state coffers are empty

  • Friday, 6 September, 2024
    Political Fix podcast38 min listen
    Labour and business: friends or foes?

    Plus, the latest in the Tory leadership race and a UK policy shift on Israel

  • Friday, 16 August, 2024
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    How do you solve a problem like Elon Musk?

    Plus, why politicians should not cancel their holidays

  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
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    Should we bother to sing the correct words to a song?

    Weird, private interpretations of pop lyrics are like the humble, non-showbiz person’s cover versions

    A cartoon-style drawing of a woman listening to something through large headphones. She has a worried or displeased look on her face and is wearing a blue shirt with a white floral design
  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
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    Early polls give clues about whether support for Nigel Farage’s party has peaked; plus, Tory leadership contenders jostle

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  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    Political Fix podcast36 min listen
    Is Labour facing a summer of unrest?

    Plus, the truth about Rachel Reeves’s fiscal inheritance

  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
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    Labour builds bridges with Trump

    Plus, UK government launches major defence review

  • Sunday, 14 July, 2024
    UK politics25 min
    Can the Conservative party survive defeat? | FT Film

    After a disastrous rejection by the voters, FT deputy opinion editor Miranda Green and political experts look at how the vanquished Tory party can rebuild

    Can the Tories survive defeat?
  • Saturday, 6 July, 2024
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    A wild and woolly time awaits on the opposition benches

    Tactical voting has ensured success for the Lib Dems and the Greens

  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
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    Election special: Starmer moves into Number 10

    The FT’s top political commentators answer listeners’ questions about the general election result

  • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
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    Pork pies and trail mix: the snacks that fuel elections

    In campaign HQs and broadcast studios, food makes or breaks polling day

    Rishi Sunak holding a plate of sandwiches
  • Friday, 28 June, 2024
    Political Fix podcast37 min listen
    Could the election results still surprise us?

    Plus, where have all the ‘good chaps’ of British politics gone?

  • Monday, 24 June, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Blue Wall vulnerable to tactical voting as natural Conservatives turn against party

    New research into prosperous seats reveals anti-Con swings could be deeper than some polling suggests, though voter choices remain fluid

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  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    UK politics21 min
    Sketchy Politics: the extinction election?

    Robert Shrimsley and Miranda Green ask whether Reform might be behind a Conservative extinction level event

    Sketchy politics: extinction election?
  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    Political Fix podcast33 min listen
    Labour’s manifesto: where will the money come from?

    Plus, what might a Labour government mean for your personal finances?

  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
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    Labour’s messy campaign week

    UK election: can the Green party split the leftwing vote?

  • Wednesday, 29 May, 2024
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    Sketchy Politics: Starmy weather

    Robert Shrimsley and Miranda Green have a clear plan, a bold umbrella, and are stockpiling canned food

    Sketchy Politics: Starmy weather
  • Saturday, 25 May, 2024
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    A selection of the most insightful titles on the race for Downing Street by FT experts

    Photographs of Boris Johnson, Rory Stewart, Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer against a background of the union jack and a large tick
  • Friday, 24 May, 2024
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    Bring it on! Election 2024 kicks off

    What to watch out for in the campaign

  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    Political Fix podcast42 min listen
    Election battle lines drawn up

    Plus, a row over graduate visas could leave UK universities fighting for their future

  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    Scottish politics20 min
    Sketchy Politics: Sunak's sinking feeling

    The FT's UK political commentator Robert Shrimsley and deputy opinion editor Miranda Green sketch out Rishi Sunak's defectors, the fallout from the recent elections, and political drama in Scotland

    Sketchy Politics: that sinking feeling
  • Tuesday, 14 May, 2024
    UK politics
    ‘True blue’ turns Green as party rides countryside wave

    The environmentalists are enjoying dramatic success with voters in rural Conservative areas

    Ewan White illustration of two workman painting a house in green colour.
  • Friday, 3 May, 2024
    Political Fix podcast36 min listen
    Election special — local poll results roll in

    Tories in trouble after election losses

  • Monday, 29 April, 2024
    ReviewPolitical books
    Downward Spiral by John Bowers — can British politics be saved?

    A senior barrister makes the case for fixing the ‘sense of decay’ affecting Westminster and offers detailed and robust reforms

    Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds England flag outside 10 Downing Street
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