Resignation Follows Alleged Journalist Probe

Josh Simons resigned as Cabinet Office minister after claims a think tank he ran commissioned a report on journalists' backgrounds.
He said he was cleared of breaking the ministerial code but resigned as he became a distraction.
The report was commissioned by Labour Together, an organization run by Starmer's former chief of staff, to investigate journalists who wrote a negative story about it.
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