The minister and the alleged smear campaign: key unanswered questions

Josh Simons, who is at centre of scandal in which journalists were falsely linked to a ‘pro-Kremlin’ network, faces questions over candour of his statements The Cabinet Office minister at the centre of a growing scandal over an alleged smear campaign in which he falsely linked journalists to a “pro-Kremlin” network is facing mounting questions over the candour of his public statements. Josh Simons ran Labour Together, a thinktank that faced press scrutiny in November 2023 over £730,000 in und...

By Henry Dyer and Dan Sabbagh