Matt Honeycombe-Foster

News editor

London via Nottingham

Experienced editor deft at spot news in crazy times, bringing out the best in reporters, and thinking on my feet for scoops, interview ideas and features. Launched a brand new POLITICO newsletter, stepped up to edit PoliticsHome during the pandemic, and revamped a trade mag's online output. Always up for a coffee.

Matt Honeycombe-Foster

News editor

London via Nottingham

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Nusrat Ghani interview
Growing up in a working-class Muslim neighbourhood in Birmingham, Nusrat Ghani says she never expected to enter the House of Commons. Now a government minister in the Department for Transport, she is taking everything one step at a time. She talks to Matt Foster about her journey
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Owen Smith: My constituents feel forgotten by Westminster
The Pontypridd MP on why Westminster ignores Britain’s “left-behind” towns at its peril – and how leaving the EU might make things worse.
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Wera Hobhouse on mental health
Fresh from her successful campaign to ban upskirting, the MP for Bath is determined to ensure that people struggling with mental health problems aren’t cut adrift by the state. She speaks to Matt Foster.
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Alison Thewliss: 'Nothing's changed at the Home Office'
Alison Thewliss’s constituency office deals with the highest immigration caseload in Scotland. For the Glasgow Central MP, that often means a complex dance with one of Whitehall’s biggest departments. Thewliss tells Matt Foster why she believes there is “no humanity” at the Home Office
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Tory Bob Seely on the Isle of Wight 'exporting its young'
Bob Seely says he only ever wanted to represent the Isle of Wight - a dream that finally came true in 2017. But, as the Conservative MP tells Matt Foster, Government housing policy is leaving young islanders facing an uphill struggle.
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Labour's Emma Dent Coad on social housing failures
In a new series, we hear from MPs about the big issues that matter to their constituents but don’t always make the headlines. This week, Emma Dent Coad on the sorry state of affordable housing in her Kensington constituency
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Nia Griffith interview
The Shadow Defence Secretary talks MoD budgets, Gavin Williamson, Russia, nuclear deterrents and more.
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Interview: shadow minister Bill Esterson
The Shadow Small Business Minister unveils plans for a new "one stop shop" for small firms and warns about Brexit.
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Damian Hinds Interview
Damian Hinds describes being Education Secretary as his dream job. But with schools taking matters into their own hands to highlight their under-pressure budgets, and fears of a teacher retention crisis, his department faces some huge challenges. He speaks to Matt Foster
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