Caroline Wheeler

Caroline Wheeler is political editor of the i paper, having previously served as political editor of The Sunday Times.

With more than 20 years’ experience reporting from Westminster, Caroline brings an insider’s understanding of government and Whitehall, supported by impeccable contacts across politics, business and the civil service.

Caroline has broken numerous agenda-setting stories, including Boris Johnson’s plans to ‘cancel Christmas’ and introduce tougher lockdown restrictions over the festive season in 2020; Operation Yellowhammer, the government’s secret contingency plan for a hard Brexit; Theresa May’s decision to call a snap general election, which ultimately wiped out her parliamentary majority; and the alleged Chinese spy ring in Parliament.

In 2024, Caroline was named Journalist of the Year at the British Journalism Awards in culmination of her 23 years of reporting on the NHS contaminated blood scandal, which she first covered as a reporter on the Sunday Mercury in Birmingham and later chronicled in her book Death in the Blood (Headline, 2023). Campaigners and politicians have credited her reporting with helping to secure the Infected Blood Inquiry.

Caroline is a regular political commentator for the BBC and Sky and has appeared as a guest analyst on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show, The Westminster Hour and BBC Radio 4.