Tim Shipman, currently Deputy Political Editor of The Daily Mail, is to join The Sunday Times as its Political Editor.

After reading History and then International Relations at Cambridge, Tim started his career in journalism at the Daily Express in 1997 as a graduate trainee.

In 1998 he was made Deputy Foreign Editor, a post he held for more than two years, a period covering the war in Kosovo and the Clinton impeachment.

He covered the 2000 US presidential election, before joining the Parliamentary Lobby in 2001 as Deputy Political Editor on the Sunday Express. During his four years in that role, Tim was the main anchorman for the Daily and Sunday Express at US Central Command in Qatar during the Iraq War.

Tim joined the Daily Mail lobby team in 2005 before moving to the United States as Washington Correspondent for the Sunday Telegraph in the Spring of 2007. He spent two years covering Barack Obama’s historic first election campaign and returned to Westminster as Deputy Political Editor of the Daily Mail in April 2009.

Sunday Times editor, Martin Ivens, said:

"Tim will bring a wealth of both domestic and international political experience to The Sunday Times and is well placed to keep our readers informed in the lead up to the 2015 General Election. He joins in what is sure to be one of the most interesting periods in British Politics which starts with the Scottish Referendum this Summer"

Tim Shipman said:

"I’m delighted to be joining the Sunday Times, which is rightly seen as a gold standard for newspapers around.

"It has been a privilege to contribute to the success of the Daily Mail over the last five years. Having worked for one organisation that believes in investing in journalism and robustly defending the freedom of the press I am thrilled to be joining another."