Josh Simons
Josh Simons | |
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Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Digital Government | |
| In office 9 January 2026 – 28 February 2026 | |
| Prime Minister | Keir Starmer |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | James Frith |
| Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office | |
| In office 7 September 2025 – 28 February 2026 | |
| Prime Minister | Keir Starmer |
| Preceded by | Georgia Gould Abena Oppong-Asare |
| Succeeded by | The Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent |
| Member of Parliament for Makerfield | |
| Assumed office 4 July 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Yvonne Fovargue |
| Majority | 5,399 (13.4%) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Joshua Cameron Simons 24 July 1993 |
| Party | Labour |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | St John's College, Cambridge (BA) Harvard University (PhD) |
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Josh Simons (born 24 July 1993) is a British Labour Party politician who was elected Member of Parliament for Makerfield in 2024. He was appointed a Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office in 2025, and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Digital Government at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology on 9 January 2026.
He was under investigation in early 2026, with calls for his resignation, for identifying journalists who had published an article unfavourable to Labour Together, a thinktank he ran, naming them to British intelligence, and falsely linking them to pro-Russian propaganda. He resigned as a Cabinet Office minister on 28 February 2026.