He has been a national newspaper journalist since 1997, working initially for the
Express stable of newspapers before being appointed as a political correspondent for the
Daily Mail in 2005. 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. == Bibliography ==