Sam Coates

Sam is Deputy political editor of Sky News, reporting on breaking news, delivering exclusive interviews and providing analysis from Westminster. He joined Sky News in June 2019, after 19 years at The Times. Sam has worked in Westminster since 2005, apart from a year getting to know the city as Banking Editor of The Times in 2012. He won the Laurence Stern fellowship in 2005, working at the Washington Post covering the George W Bush White House and in New Orleans on Hurricane Katrina.