Philip Collins

Philip Collins was, between 2004 and 2007, the Chief Speech Writer to the Prime Minister, Tony Blair. Since leaving Downing Street and founding the writing agency The Draft, where he is Writer-in-Chief, he has written for many well-known leaders, including Sir Keir Starmer.

Philip Collins is a Contributing Editor at the Observer and, from 2026, Editor of Prospect magazine. He was, for more than a decade, a political columnist on The Times, the New Statesman and the Evening Standard. From 2000 to 2005, he was the Director of the think tank the Social Market Foundation and, before that, was for six years an investment analyst and an Equity Strategist at HSBC James Capel.

Philip Collins teaches rhetoric at the Blavatnik School, University of Oxford and has been a Visiting Fellow at University College, Oxford. He is a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. He was the Chair of Trustees at the think tank Demos for seven years, and now serves on the board of the Centre for Policy Research on Men and Boys.

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