Sebastian Payne Explained

Sebastian Payne
Birth Date:1989 7, df=y
Birth Place:Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England
Education:St Thomas More Catholic School
Dame Allan's School
Alma Mater:Durham University (BSc)
City, University of London (MA)
Years Active:2011–present
Employer:Onward
Party:Conservative

Sebastian Early Anthony Payne[1] (born 2 July 1989) is a British think tank director and former journalist. He began his career with stints at The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator, before joining the Financial Times in 2016, where he eventually rose to become the paper's Whitehall correspondent. In 2022, he left the paper to become director of the think tank Onward.

Early life

Payne was born on 2 July 1989,[2] [3] in Gateshead, England. He attended St Thomas More Catholic School, Blaydon, and later the private day school Dame Allan's School for sixth form,[4] where he began studying politics.[5] At Durham University, he studied Computer Science.[6] He was media editor of the student newspaper Palatinate,[5] and manager of Purple Radio, a student radio station where he also presented a show.[1] During his tenure as manager, Purple Radio received a fine from PRS for Music for not paying any fees for playing music on the station for five years.[6] He graduated from the university's Van Mildert College[7] in 2010 with a Bachelor of Science.[8]

After graduation,[6] Payne completed an internship on the media desk of The Guardian.[5] He obtained a Master of Arts in investigative journalism from City, University of London in 2011.[8] [9]

Career

Payne volunteered for Conservative Campaign Headquarters during the 2010 general election campaign.

Payne became a data reporter at The Daily Telegraph in 2011, before leaving the paper the following year.[10] He was an online editor of The Spectator magazine[11] and the deputy editor of its Coffee House blog from 2012 to 2015.[12] He was also managing editor of the magazine.[6] During his time at The Spectator he spent nine months in a Laurence Stern fellowship at the national desk of The Washington Post.[13] [6]

Payne joined the Financial Times as digital opinion editor[14] at the beginning of 2016.[5] He became the paper's political leader writer,[14] before being appointed Whitehall correspondent in March 2019. He wrote a fortnightly political opinion column[15] and presented the weekly Payne's Politics podcast.[16]

In 2021, Pan Macmillan published Payne's book, Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour's Lost England, about the red wall areas that voted for the Conservative Party at the 2019 general election.[17]

In November 2022, Pan Macmillan published The Fall of Boris Johnson, Payne's book about Prime Minister Boris Johnson's downfall.[18] [19]

In December 2022, Payne left the Financial Times to become director of the think tank Onward.[20]

In 2023, Payne applied to be the Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate for the 2023 Selby and Ainsty by-election and was shortlisted but not selected.[21] [22] Later that year, he applied to be the party's candidate in West Suffolk for the 2024 general election, but was defeated by Nick Timothy.[23] Payne unsuccessfully ran to be the Conservative candidate in several other seats, including Bromsgrove,[24] Bridlington and the Wolds,[25] Waveney Valley,[26] and Surrey Heath.[27] With the close of nominations for seats on June 7, Payne failed to be selected for a seat at the 2024 general election.[28]

Personal life

Payne lives in Archway, North London.[29] He married Sophia Gaston on 20 July 2019. Gaston is a London School of Economics visiting fellow and Head of Foreign Policy and UK Resilience at the conservative think tank Policy Exchange.[30] [31] [32]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sebastian E. Payne > Personalia. https://web.archive.org/web/20090707151234/http://www.sebpayne.com/2008/12/27/personlia/. 3 October 2020. 7 July 2009.
  2. News: How true to life is Channel 4's Fresh Meat? . Payne . Sebastian . 16 November 2011 . The Telegraph . 20 October 2019 . 0307-1235 . subscription.
  3. Payne . Sebastian . Happy Birthday @SebastianEPayne . 352114127935770624 . SebastianEPayne . https://web.archive.org/web/20200905095852/https://twitter.com/SebastianEPayne/status/352114127935770624 . 5 September 2020 . 8 December 2022.
  4. Web site: Seb Payne's schooldays . 14 March 2015 . The Spectator . Payne . Sebastian . 8 December 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211018070323/https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/seb-payne-s-schooldays . 18 October 2021.
  5. Chapter 147 : Sebastian Payne . Global . Iain Dale's Book Club . Iain . Dale . 8 October 2021 . 8 October 2021.
  6. The Currant Affairs Podcast Season 4 - Interview with Sebastian Payne . Purple Radio On Demand . Apple Podcasts . 7 April 2022 . 8 December 2022.
  7. News: Alumni. The Mildertian. 14 July 2014. 9 August 2020. 5.
  8. Web site: Sebastian Payne . Speakers for Schools . 8 December 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191006082607/https://www.speakers4schools.org/speakers/sebastian-payne/ . 6 October 2019.
  9. Web site: Leading alumni in online and digital . City, University of London . 8 December 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200728164307/https://www.city.ac.uk/about/schools/arts-social-sciences/journalism/graduate-prospects/leading-city-journalism-alumni/leading-alumni-in-digital . 28 July 2020.
  10. Web site: Sebastian Payne . https://web.archive.org/web/20110711202055/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/sebastian-payne/ . 11 July 2011 . The Telegraph . dead . 20 October 2019.
  11. Web site: Sebastian Payne . National Press Foundation . 20 October 2019.
  12. Web site: Author: Sebastian Payne . The Spectator . 8 December 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160903221349/http://www.spectator.co.uk/author/sebastian-payne/ . 3 September 2016.
  13. News: Sebastian Payne is The Washington Post's 2014 Stern Fellow . The Washington Post . 23 April 2014 . 9 August 2020.
  14. News: FT hires Spectator's Sebastian Payne as digital comment editor . Jackson . Jasper . The Guardian . 29 October 2015 . 15 December 2019.
  15. Web site: Sebastian Payne appointed Whitehall correspondent at Financial Times . Amos-Sansam . Nate . 11 March 2019 . ResponseSource . 20 October 2019.
  16. Web site: Sebastian Payne. Chartwell Speakers. 31 July 2023.
  17. Web site: Pan Mac wins four-publisher fight for Payne . The Bookseller . Chandler . Mark . 16 September 2020 . 3 October 2020.
  18. Web site: Chandler . Mark . Pan Mac scoops inside story of Boris Johnson's downfall by Payne . 1 August 2022 . The Bookseller . 25 July 2022.
  19. The Fall of Boris Johnson - out November 24 . 1584519095437099014 . Payne . Sebastian . SebastianEPayne . 24 October 2022 . 8 December 2022.
  20. 1600408168026279936 . after seven fantastic years at the @FinancialTimes, I'm delighted to be appointed director of @ukonward . SebastianEPayne . Payne . Sebastian . 7 December 2022 . 8 December 2022.
  21. Web site: Atkinson . William . 2023-06-10 . Naughton selected in Selby in a "very unusual" contest . 2023-06-10 . Conservative Home . en-GB.
  22. Web site: 2023-06-02 . Former Financial Times journalist shortlisted to be Tory election candidate . 2023-06-10 . The National . en.
  23. Web site: Goodman . Paul . 2023-07-31 . Nick Timothy and Bradley Thomas are selected to contest West Suffolk and Bromsgove respectively. . 2023-08-02 . Conservative Home . en-GB.
  24. Web site: CP . 2023-11-28 . Conservative Party to unseat local candidate, Bradley Thomas, to parachute in Onward director, Seb Payne . 2024-06-04 . Conservative Post . en-GB.
  25. Web site: 2023-10-06 . Reading the Rutherglen romp-home runes . 2024-06-04 . POLITICO . en-GB.
  26. Web site: Crick . Michael . 7 October 2023 . WAVENEY VALLEY: I'm told Seb Payne... . Twitter.
  27. News: Maddox . David . 2024-06-03 . Tory chairman's last minute bid for seat as party scrambles to find up to 141 candidates . 2024-06-05 . The Independent . en.
  28. Web site: x.com . 2024-06-07 . X (formerly Twitter).
  29. name="Voting location"/https://x.com/SebastianEPayne/status/1808778803818176743?lang=en-GB
  30. News: Politico London Playbook, presented by Lloyds Banking Group: I'm a Cabinet minister get me out of here — Our fractured nation — Boris care pledge . POLITICO . Blanchard . Jack . 19 July 2019 . 9 August 2020.
  31. Web site: Sophia Gaston . 9 August 2020 . London School of Economics.
  32. Web site: Sophia Gaston. 2 September 2023. DSEI.

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