Ben Riley-Smith is the Daily Telegraph‘s Political Editor. He has spent a decade at the paper covering politics in the Scottish Parliament, Westminster and Washington, DC. He has interviewed the last five prime ministers and covered the elections and referendums that have shaped recent British politics first hand. He has been shortlisted twice for political journalism at the British Journalism Awards.
Books in order of publication:
The Right to Rule: Thirteen Years, Five Prime Ministers and the Implosion of the Tories – 2023
Blue Murder: The Rise and Fall of the Conservative Government, 2010–2024 – 2024
Oak Lawn Library Friends 