George Parker



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Full name: George Parker

Area of interest: Europe’s future, enlargement, political and economic issues

Journals: Financial Times

Email: [mailto:george.parker@ft.com george.parker@ft.com]

Website: FT.Com / George Parker

Blog: Brussels briefing - contributor

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Career: Covered Westminster politics between 1990/1999 - for the Western Morning News then the FT (news editor)

Current position/role: Political Editor


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Financial Times:
Column remit: Europe’s future, enlargement, political and economic issues

Section: FT.Com's Brussels briefing, insiders’ guide to what’s happening in Brussels; and Brussels blog and previous contributor to Westminster blog

Role: Political editor

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Email: [mailto:george.parker@ft.com george.parker@ft.com]

Website: FT.Com / George Parker

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Articles:

 * in the News: Ed Balls'' - George Parker on the rise of the shadow chancellor - 22nd January 2011
 * fiscal focus'' - UK politics: Tuesday’s pre-Budget report looks likely to define the terms of next year’s general election – in particular the divide between the main parties on how best to reduce the national debt - 8th December 2009
 * finest moment’'' - The financial crisis: A year since America adopted the rescue plan first activated by Gordon Brown, his role is disputed by some but hailed by others - 15th October 2009
 * faces Tory cuts vs Labour, erm, cuts'' - If he is elected, David Cameron will need to find cuts equivalent to scrapping all spending on the police, foreign office, transport and six more departments – just to match Labour’s secret plans - 19th September 2009
 * cuts'' - With the dire state of Britain’s finances set to define next year’s general election, government and opposition are competing to portray themselves as the better axe-wielder - 14th September 2009
 * around'' - Gordon Brown’s launch of a policy document both thin on original ideas and devoid of new money shows he is struggling to adjust to the end of a political and economic era - 6th July 2009
 * man keeps low profile'' - Barely a year before an election must be held, Britain’s main economic choices are being framed by two pairs of men who each have much in common – but for both, tensions between leader and finance chief are being magnified by the crisis - 23rd April 2009 (with Jean Eaglesham)
 * Seventies spectre'' - Barely a year before he must call an election, Brown is facing a power struggle within his party as well as a Tory ascendancy that could set it back a generation - 21st March 2009 (with Jim Pickard)
 * bounce to bust'' - Britain: Gordon Brown initially drew strength from his handling of the financial crisis, but now finds himself struggling to defy political gravity as the economic news grows ever grimmer - 31st January 2009
 * Back to the workers’ banner: Labour is again beholden to the unions for cash - 18th July 2008 (with Andrew Taylor)
 * Centre prize: why UK political parties look more and more the same - 4th March 2008 (with Jim Pickard)
 * Mess, prime minister: From the shadows of his bunker emerges a battered Brown - 5th February 2008 (with Alex Barker)


 * George Parker (archive)



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 * Does he mean me? - Alastair Campbell's diaries, published yesterday, are littered with casually abusive asides about the people he met. So what do Piers Morgan, Ann Widdecombe and his other victims think about their walk-on roles in his 794-page book? Oliver Burkeman reports - The Guardian, 10th July 2007