Daniel Finkelstein is the Executive Editor, a Columnist and Chief Leader Writer. One of his responsibilities as Executive Editor is to oversee digital editions of The Times. As well as his weekly political column in the comment section, he writes the “Fink Tank” for the Saturday paper, a statistical column on football.

Between 1997 and 2001, he was chief policy adviser to the Leader of the Opposition Rt. Hon. William Hague MP and Secretary to the Shadow Cabinet. In 2001, he was Conservative parliamentary candidate in Harrow West.

Between 1995 and 1997, he was Director of the Conservative Research Department in which capacity he advised Prime Minister John Major and attended meetings of the Cabinet when it sat in political session.