Tom McTague

Thomas McTague
OccupationsAuthor, journalist
Known forEditor of The New Statesman

Thomas McTague is a British author and journalist. He has been editor of The New Statesman since 2025.

Career

McTague grew up in County Durham in the North East of England and attended Woodham Comprehensive School, Newton Aycliffe.

McTague started his career as a three-year trainee journalist at the Daily Mirror.[1] He became political correspondent for the Daily Mirror from 2011 to 2014, deputy political editor of MailOnline from 2014 to 2015, political editor of The Independent on Sunday 2015 to 2016 and chief UK correspondent of Politico from 2016 to 2019.[2] McTague then was political editor of UnHerd for two years,[3] and a staff writer for The Atlantic.[4]

McTague was appointed editor of The New Statesman in March 2025, having been acting editor since the start of 2025.[2][5] He launched his editorship with a long-form profile of the prime minister Keir Starmer, after accompanying Starmer on foreign visits.[6]

In 2020, he was highly commended in the Society of Editors Political Commentator of the Year award class.[7] In 2021, he was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for journalism.[8]

In September 2025, he published Between the Waves: The Hidden History of a Very British Revolution 1945–2016.[9] The book discusses the history of the relationship between Britain and Europe.[10] The book was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.[11][12]

Bibliography

  • Between the Waves: The Hidden History of a Very British Revolution 1945–2016 (2025) ISBN 978-1529083125[11]

References

  1. ↑ McTague, Tom (30 July 2019). "I, Too, Have Dressed Up as a Chicken to Harass British Politicians". The Atlantic. Retrieved 28 June 2026.
  2. 1 2 Ponsford, Dominic (24 March 2025). "Unherd political editor Tom McTague named New Statesman editor". Press Gazette. Retrieved 28 June 2026.
  3. ↑ "Tom McTague, a writer for Unherd". UnHerd. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
  4. ↑ "Tom McTague". The Atlantic. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
  5. ↑ McTague, Thomas (12 June 2025). "A new era for the New Statesman". Retrieved 11 December 2025.
  6. ↑ Rentoul, John (12 June 2025). "Look away, Sir Keir! Labour's bible has given its verdict on you". The Independent. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
  7. ↑ "Congratulations to the winners of the Press Awards for 2020". Society of Editors. 2020. Retrieved 28 June 2026.
  8. ↑ "2021 Journalism prize long list | Tom McTague". The Orwell Prizes. The Orwell Foundation. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
  9. ↑ McElvoy, Anne (6 September 2025). "Review | Between the Waves". The Standard. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
  10. ↑ Bogdanor, Vernon (26 August 2025). "How the seeds of Brexit were sown by four men in 1943". The Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
  11. 1 2 "Books & authors | Between The Waves - The Hidden History of a Very British Revolution 1945-2016 | Tom McTague". The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
  12. ↑ "Tom McTague Longlist Interview". The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. 19 September 2025. Retrieved 28 June 2026.


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