Caroline Wheeler

Biography

Caroline Wheeler is the Political Editor of The i Paper, having served in the same role for five years at The Sunday Times. In over two decades of parliamentary reporting, she has broken agenda-setting stories including coronavirus lockdowns, the contaminated bloody scandal, and Theresa May’s snap general election. She also exposed details of Operation Yellowhammer, the government’s secret contingency plan for a hard Brexit and the allegations of a Chinese spy ring inside Parliament.

Starting out in Westminster as the Parliamentary Correspondent for Local World Media, Caroline reported on political events for a string of regional newspapers, and explored the impact of policy on the frontline. Working in the heart of the action, she interviewed Cabinet Ministers, Prime Ministers and MPs as well as other senior policy-makers, leading business figures and civil servants. She then went on to work as the Political Editor at the Sunday Express before moving to the Sunday Times and working her way from Deputy to Political Editor. 

Caroline's investigative roots began when she covered the NHS contaminated blood scandal for two decades as a reporter on the Sunday Mercury in Birmingham. It was her research that led May to launch a public inquiry into the worst treatment disaster in NHS history. She also triggered a National Crime Agency investigation into modern slavery by exposing details of how textile workers in Leicester making clothes for the fast-fashion giant Boohoo were being paid as little as £3.50 an hour. 

With a fascinating insider’s view into government and Whitehall, Caroline is a frequent political commentator for the BBC and Sky, and has appeared as a guest analyst on the BBC Andrew Marr Show and Westminster Hour on BBC Radio 4.