Home News Sport Weather iPlayer Sounds Bitesize CBeebies CBBC Food Home News Sport Business Technology Health Culture Arts Travel Earth Audio Video Live Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK. Find out how to listen to other BBC stations Episode details News , · 28 Mar 2026 , · 49 mins Why Josh Simons Resigned From Government Newscast Available for over a year Today, Laura and Paddy have an exclusive first full length interview with Josh Simons, who recently quit as a government minister. A think tank he used to run - Labour Together - commissioned a report that looked into the background of journalists after the Sunday Times ran a story about them. He says he was ‘naive’ and he was ‘so sorry’. He also worked at Facebook owners Meta for several years and gave evidence at the landmark social media addiction trial which the tech giant, along with YouTube, lost this week.…