About me
The headline:
I’m a political reporter for BBC News, covering UK politics, usually from Westminster. I'm currently on secondment at BBC Coventry and Warwickshire until the end of January, 2025.
My story so far:
Writing about music was my gateway into journalism. It was a hobby that started in university and turned into an obsession. For years, I wrote features and reviews for various local and national titles, including Bido Lito!, NME, Crack Magazine, the Skinny and Mixmag.
Eventually I channelled that passion and general nerdiness into news reporting, which I've spent most of my career doing in Liverpool, Birmingham, London and elsewhere at leading news organisations, from Express Newspapers to BBC News.
In Liverpool, I reported for local newspapers while doing my NCTJ training. Then in Birmingham, I worked for an international news agency, where I plied my trade as tabloid reporter. That experience came in handy at the Sun, the Mirror and the Daily Star, where I held news reporter roles.
As a newspaper hack, I led, planned and contributed to coverage of major news events, such as terror attacks in France, Barcelona and London, the fight against ISIS in Syria and Iraq, the poisoning of Sergei Skripal, the 2018 World Cup, the Rio Olympics, Brexit, a US presidential election, UK general elections and much more.
I completed a master’s degree in global politics at Birkbeck, University of London in 2020. It shifted my focus towards international relations and during my studies, I started working for BBC World News.
For three years, I wrote stories and features about news from every corner of the world, from the two impeachments of President Donald Trump in the US, to bushfires in Australia. I put a lot of my energy into long-form storytelling and did many features including “I watched the president reveal I had Covid-19 on TV”, “Seeking sanctuary for whale dubbed a Russian spy”, and “The lives caught in a stalemate”.
In 2022, I joined the BBC News politics team in London to narrow my focus on Westminster. I’ve delivered exclusive scoops and interviews, while working with a team of political journalists to break agenda-setting stories that have shaped British politics.
Two years and three prime ministers later, I was hired as the BBC's political reporter for Coventry and Warwickshire. I covered the local elections and the general election in 2024 from the patch. My TV, radio and online journalism has been featured on various programmes and platforms, including Midlands Today, Politics Midlands and BBC iPlayer.
Some of my main journalistic interests include British politics, international relations and climate change. In all my reporting, I do my best to make sense of a complex world and try to put people at the centre of my storytelling. I’m drawn to big ideas as much as small deeds, which can both change the world.