A Labour minister who quit over a journalism smear scandal has said he was 'honest and truthful' but resigned because he was a 'distraction' for the government. Josh Simons, who served in the Cabinet Office, had faced calls to step down over the controversy at the thinktank he used to run before he entered parliament. The MP for Makerfield, in Wigan, eventually quit on February 28 over claims the organisation once commissioned a report looking into journalists' backgrounds. Labour Together paid Washington-based PR firm APCO Worldwide at least £30,000 for the research ahead of the 2024 election. It asked the...
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