Peter Stothard (born February 28, 1951) is a British newspaper editor, currently for the Times Literary Supplement, but of The Times itself from 1992 to 2002, and before that, from 1989 to 1992, of its United States section. He has also published the book Thirty Days: An Inside Account of Tony Blair at War (ISBN 0060582626) in 2004.

During his tenure as editor the Times developed a close relationship with the Labour Party and was frequently used to push pro-Labour stories onto the agenda. From 1999 Stothard used the paper to run a string of negative stories about Conservative Party treasurer Michael Ashcroft, which later turned out to be false. He was awarded a knighthood in 2003.

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