Tim Shipman

Timothy James Shipman (born 13 May 1975) is a British journalist, who is currently political editor at The Spectator and chief political commentator at The Sunday Times.

Early life and education Shipman attended Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Horncastle, in Lincolnshire. He read history at Churchill College, Cambridge, graduating in 1996, and was part of a losing Cuppers darts team, beaten by a Robinson team in the finals.

In January 2014, Shipman was appointed the political editor of The Sunday Times.

He is the author of All Out War (2016) about the EU referendum in 2016 and Fall Out (2017) about the 2017 UK general election. In 2017 he was awarded Press Journalist of the Year by the London Press Club.

In October 2021, he became chief political commentator of The Sunday Times, with his deputy Caroline Wheeler taking over as political editor.

In February 2022, Shipman lost a libel case brought by Baroness Chapman, paying her substantial damages and legal costs. In May 2021, Shipman had posted two tweets on Twitter, one attributed to an unnamed Labour party source, that the court determined meant he had falsely suggested Chapman had a "secret adulterous relationship" with Labour leader Keir Starmer. Shipman deleted one of the tweets soon after, but it had already been extensively republished.