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Peter Foster is currently the Public Policy Editor at the Financial Times. Previously he was Europe Editor at The Daily Telegraph where he covered the Brexit negotiations from both sides of The Channel. He returned to London in 2015 after more than a decade spent as a foreign correspondent covering South Asia, China and the United States.

No-deal Brexit looms as leak reveals Dominic Cummings considers EU negotiations a ‘sham’

• https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/09/02/no-deal-brexit-looms-leak-reveals-dominic-cummings-considers/

The fevered weeks which sealed an ‘impossible’ deal

• https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/10/19/fevered-weeks-sealed-impossible-deal-boris-johnson-crafted-brexit/

‘Stunned off my sun lounger’

• https://twitter.com/pmdfoster/status/1163544394282209280?lang=en-gb

Peter Foster’s writings on Brexit, the great issue of our day, were insightful. We were struck most by the way they were written against the grain, avoiding the ideologically driven, hackneyed reporting the issue generated in so much of the media. His threads on Twitter were among the most insightful use of journalism’s newest tool.”

David Smith has been Economics Editor of The Sunday Times since 1989, where he writes a weekly column. He is also chief leader-writer, an assistant editor and policy adviser. He also writes columns for The Times and other publications.

Scottish Independence? Just do the sums – it’s 40 years too late for that

• https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/scottish-independence-it-s-40-years-too-late-for-that-tkvn0mqdw

More Stoke on Trent than Singapore on Thames

• https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/david-smith-more-stoke-on-trent-than-singapore-on-thames-bhwk9w3bs

Public support for nationalisation is part of the backlash against greed

• https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/public-support-for-nationalisation-is-part-of-the-backlash-against-greed-6g2k87fh9

David Smith’s writings were sharp and incisive: we were most impressed by how he managed the difficult feat of presenting complex economic issues in a style the layperson could understand.”

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• London Bridge is down (The Guardian, 17/03/17)
• Weathering the storm (The New Yorker, 31/07/17)
• The Year the Grenfell Tower Fire Revealed the Lie That Londoners Tell Themselves (The New Yorker, 27/12/17)