Caroline Wheeler is the political editor at The Sunday Times. Her work in the past year included the revelation that a British researcher working in the heart of Parliament had been arrested on suspicion of spying for China. She also broke the story about Rosie Duffield resigning from the Labour Party and Sue Gray’s imminent departure from No10 as the PM’s chief of staff. She was also responsible for numerous agenda-setting stories on the Covid pandemic, including Boris Johnson’s plans to introduce tougher restrictions for Christmas 2020. She also exposed Operation Yellowhammer, the government’s secret contingency plan for a hard Brexit. Caroline has also covered the NHS contaminated blood scandal for 20 years, since she was a junior reporter in Birmingham.