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Payne departs the FT for think tank Onward

Sebastian Payne

Sebastian Payne, a White Hall editor at the Financial Times, has left to join the think tank Onward as director.

Payne had been with the Financial Times for seven years, having joined as a political leader writer and digital opinion editor. He was an online editor and deputy Coffee House editor at The Spectator and was a national politics reporter at The Washington Post.

He worked as a data reporter at The Telegraph.

Payne has a B.S. from Durham University and a M.A. from City University of London.

Mariam Ahmed

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