James Blitz
Whitehall Editor, Financial Times,
James Blitz is the Financial Times’s Whitehall editor and author of the daily Brexit Briefing. In more than two decades on the FT he has held a variety of posts, including Political Editor, Defence Editor, Rome bureau chief and leader writer. Before joining the FT, he was the Sunday Times bureau chief in Moscow, having started his career as a BBC news trainee. He has degrees from the universities of St Andrews and Oxford. In 2003, he was awarded the David Watt prize for political journalism.
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Brexit: the way forward
There is still huge uncertainty about the future of EU-UK relations. What will Brexit mean for politics and business, and is there any scope for flexi
Financial Times/Bruegel European Forum: Where now for the UK and the EU after the vote for Brexit?
Three months after the results of the UK referendum there is still a lot of uncertainty about the future. The Financial Times and Bruegel bring togeth