Ned Simons

@katyballs Fantastic!

After an incredible ten years at The Spectator, delighted to be joining the Times and Sunday Times as Washington Editor and columnist Will miss the wonderful Spectator team a lot but excited for the next chapter news.co.uk/latest-news/ka…

Sky News is hiring a political reporter, come work with me sky.talent-community.com/projects/polit…

@PaulVale Please see Sky News dot com

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

@journoramzy No

@nedsimons ❤️ stopittt

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

@journoramzy <3

honestly the jammiest hire ever for sky. ned is one of a kind and everyone who works for him is going to fall in love with him overnight. v proud to have worked alongside him at huffpost before the wrecking ball swung x

@David_Chippa @SkyNews @HuffPostUK Thanks David

@nedsimons @SkyNews @HuffPostUK Wahey! Looking forward to having you!

Thrilled to be joining @SkyNews as assistant editor, digital politics, in the summer. Always proud of @HuffPostUK

@JoshGafson1 @SkyNews @HuffPostUK Thanks Josh!

@nedsimons @SkyNews @HuffPostUK Welcome, Ned!

@realBenBloch @SkyNews @HuffPostUK Thanks Ben, same!

@nedsimons @SkyNews @HuffPostUK Welcome, Ned! Looking forward to working with you!

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.’

Anderson says the idea there is poverty in the UK now is ‘nonsense’, adds if you want something: ‘Get off your arse and go and get it for yourself.’

Anderson says ‘no’, Nigel Farage would not win a Tory leadership race. Adds: ‘Nigel has stood many times for Parliament and not won.’

Tory deputy chairman Lee Anderson tells @ConHome event: ‘Keep the ship calm, we’ll be fine, I think we’ll win next year.’