Steve Richards is a political columnist and commentator who has written for the Guardian, The Times, the Independent and the Spectator, among other journals. Previously he was a BBC political correspondent and political editor of the New Statesman. He currently presents The Week in Westminster on Radio 4 and is a regular guest on the Today programme, Newsnight and Question Time.

Steve’s first book, Whatever It Takes: The Inside Story of Gordon Brown and New Labour, was published by Fourth Estate. He has published a Kindle Single essay on the reasons Tony Blair backed the US-led invasion of Iraq, Blair and Iraq, and a book for Atlantic on the rise of political insurgencies around the world, The Rise of the Outsiders (2017).

In 2019 he published The Prime Ministers: Reflections on Leadership from Wilson to Johnson, and in 2021 The Prime Ministers We Never Had, both for Atlantic. In 2023 Macmillan published Turning Points, about the decisive moments in post-war British history.

Steve’s latest project is a short monograph on Tony Blair, for Swift Press’s series on British Prime Ministers.