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An award-winning journalist currently working as Senior Political Correspondent for The Times in Westminster. 

Previously, Political Correspondent at PA Media (formerly the Press Association), Westminster Correspondent at The Yorkshire Post, and Health and Political Correspondent at the Eastern Daily Press.

Recent exclusives

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The army of digital sleeper agents who propelled Labour to power

It’s mid-June and Emma Reynolds, now the MP for Wycombe, is doing what her colleagues are doing all over the country — knocking on doors.

Treading the well-worn path of an election candidate, she picks a street and spends the day hoping to convince those over the threshold to vote for her.

But in sharp contrast to the last time that she ran, in 2019 in a different seat, many already know who she is.
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Leaked email blames Tory MPs for poor start to election campaign

Conservative ministers and MPs have failed to “get behind” campaigning and have refused to knock on doors, a leaked memo from Tory headquarters sent days into the general election campaign has revealed.Conservative staff accused MPs of focusing too much on ministerial business in a document accidentally emailed to party MPs by a senior campaigning figure at Conservative Campaign Headquarters (CCHQ).The message had two attachments. One was a constituency breakdown with what appeared to be sanitis...
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Parliament in decay: MPs endure flooding, rats and broken toilets

When Queen Elizabeth died last year, visitors queued for hours to make their way through Westminster Hall to see the monarch lying in state and soak up the atmosphere.

Parliamentary cleaners were left soaking up something very different, as the antiquated plumbing which snakes around the Palace of Westminster buckled under the pressure, providing yet another example of the crumbling mess at the heart of Britain’s democracy.
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Levelling up is so 2019... Rishi Sunak’s Tories are now gauging up

It was once seen as the panacea to almost all of Britain’s ills. Levelling up would solve racial inequality, antisemitism, and boost disability rights, according to officials, as well as fulfilling its initial aim of fixing regional disparities.

But now Boris Johnson’s flagship policy — which helped him to win the 2019 election — has been the victim of a “mercy killing” akin to that of its biggest backer.

A selection of my latest stories, click on the menu for more. 

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