Ned Simons
@nedsimons
Assistant editor, digital politics, Sky News 🏳️🌈
Sky News is hiring a political reporter, come work with me sky.talent-community.com/projects/polit…
I’ve been laid off by openDemocracy, along with a load of my amazing colleagues in the UK. Another bad day for good journalism in this country If anyone needs an editor, reporter, barman, ageing centre forward or hype man hit me up
Ramzy is the best editor I’ve ever worked with. Utterly baffling to ever want to lose him. Everyone should be fighting each other to hire him quickly
Sad to say I've been laid off by openDemocracy, along with several of my incredible colleagues in the UK. It's one dark day of many for British journalism, but I'm immensely proud of everything we achieved together. Here's some of the best. 🧵
Thrilled to be joining @SkyNews as assistant editor, digital politics, in the summer. Always proud of @HuffPostUK
Ministerial code: ‘All major interviews and media appearances, both print and broadcast, should also be agreed with the No 10 Press Office.’ No.10 on Suella Braverman’s Times article: ‘No it was not agreed by No.10.’
Before coming to Congress, he spent 8 years as the senior attorney and national spokesperson for a Christian nationalist group dedicated to dismantling LGBTQ+ rights and outlawing abortion. This is Mike Johnson, the new House speaker. huffpost.com/entry/mike-joh…
🚨more juicy whatsapps from the covid inquiry... chief scientific adviser angela mclean called rishi sunak "dr death the chancellor" in 2020 re eat out to help out she also called prof carl heneghan a "fuckwitt" [sic]...who happens to be next up to give evidence today😬
Rachel Reeves tells me the two moments which made her think Labour could win the next election were Keir Starmer winning the leadership and his ‘big decision’ to remove the whip from Jeremy Corbyn after the EHRC report
Rachel Reeves says of the glitter protest: ‘It really angered me. ‘You saw the measure of the guy [Starmer] today. It must have been pretty terrifying.. he just got his stuff together and cracked-on.’
Labour NEC member says of Suella Braverman: 'It's like she is on some sort of personal driven mission to be the most racist brown person in UK politics in a personal quest for far-right acceptance' huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/suella-b…
Steve Baker tells fringe: ‘When somebody says multiculturalism has failed, that seems to convey the idea that someone else’s choices about how they live, which are doing no harm, are somehow unacceptable to the speaker and I think that’s wrong.’
Elliot Colburn this evening: ‘We will not win the next general election fighting with the LGBT+ community’ huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/tory-mp-…
Jeremy Hunt speaking at @Policy_Exchange drinks: ‘We are going to win the election next year because we go to the British people with a plan.’
Jake Berry asks ‘New Conservatives’ rally why taxes go up, someone shouts: ‘Jeremy Hunt’
Nigel Farage lurking at Liz Truss’ big #cpc23 rally, says the ‘real battle’ here is who will be the next Tory leader but ‘I honestly don’t know’ who the best choice is