Caroline Wheeler

Caroline Wheeler is the political editor at The Sunday Times. She has broken numerous agenda-setting stories on the Covid pandemic, including Boris Johnson’s plans to introduce tougher restrictions for Christmas 2020. Caroline exposed Operation Yellowhammer, the government’s secret contingency plan for a hard Brexit, and the revelation that Theresa May would opt for a snap general election in 2017, a decision that would wipe out her parliamentary majority. Caroline has also covered the NHS contaminated blood scandal for 20 years, since she was a junior reporter in Birmingham.