{"id":88737,"date":"2026-02-28T23:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/labour-minister-josh-simons-resigns-after-falsely-linking-journalists-to-pro-kremlin-network\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T23:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T18:00:07","slug":"labour-minister-josh-simons-resigns-after-falsely-linking-journalists-to-pro-kremlin-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/labour-minister-josh-simons-resigns-after-falsely-linking-journalists-to-pro-kremlin-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour minister Josh Simons resigns after falsely linking journalists to \u2018pro-Kremlin\u2019 network"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e536085702abb16032a6f91005af8dfb1676536a\/0_105_500_400\/master\/500.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=2168b9442f64fc94396e6eb0175f0dd9\" alt=\"Labour minister Josh Simons resigns after falsely linking journalists to \u2018pro-Kremlin\u2019 network\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">Labour minister Josh Simons resigns after falsely linking journalists to \u2018pro-Kremlin\u2019 network<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">Makerfield MP has been under pressure over thinktank\u2019s commissioning of PR firm to investigate reportersThe Labour minister Josh Simons has resigned from the government after the Guardian revealed that he falsely linked reporters to a \u201cpro-Kremlin\u201d network in emails to GCHQ despite having claimed to be \u201csurprised\u201d and \u201cfurious\u201d about a PR firm\u2019s investigation into their journalism.Simons, who had been a Cabinet office minister, previously ran the thinktank Labour Together. He quit on Saturday, saying his position in office had become \u201ca distraction from this government\u2019s important work.\u201dThe Makerfield MP had faced mounting pressure over his role in Labour Together\u2019s commissioning of the lobbying and public affairs agency APCO to investigate journalists reporting on the thinktank\u2019s failure to disclose political donations. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/feb\/28\/minister-josh-simons-resigns-labour-together\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts Labour minister Josh Simons resigns after falsely linking journalists to \u2018pro-Kremlin\u2019 network Makerfield MP has been under pressure over thinktank\u2019s commissioning of PR firm to investigate reportersThe Labour minister Josh Simons has resigned from the government after the Guardian revealed that he falsely linked reporters to a \u201cpro-Kremlin\u201d network in emails to GCHQ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":88738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}