Nicholas Timmins

Nicholas Timmins has been public policy editor of the Financial Times since 1996. Before that he was with the Independent for a decade from its foundation, working variously as its health and social services correspondent , political correspondent and its public policy editor. He previously held similar posts at The Times. He has also worked for the Press Association and Nature. He has therefore been reporting on the events covered in The Five Giants: a Biography of the Welfare State, his first book, for twenty years.