Joey Jones
Deputy Political Editor
Joey Jones is Sky News Deputy Political Editor.
Since joining the political team in 2007, Joey has become a respected analyst of the Westminster scene and has developed a unique way of scrutinising Prime Minister’s Questions and other set-piece events, reviewing MPs' performances with detailed video analysis.
In 2009, he was nominated for the RTS Specialist Journalist award.
During the 2010 General Election, Joey accompanied David Cameron’s campaign and subsequently co-authored a book about the election and the formation of the government with Political Editor Adam Boulton entitled Hung Together.
Joey broke the stories of the resignations of Jacqui Smith and Hazel Blears and shadowed David Cameron throughout the 2010 General Election.Joey went to school in Exeter, then studied History and English at Jesus College, Oxford.
He was a reporter at BBC Radio Devon from 1997-1998, before moving to report for the Euronews channel, based in Lyon, from 1998-99.
Joey began working at Sky News in 1999 and became a full-time member of staff in 2002. Joey is a big jazz fan, enjoys cooking and plays the tenor saxophone.
Videos
Articles
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David Cameron at Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons 12:06pm UK, Wednesday May 16, 2012 Sky News' deputy political editor Joey Jones is analysing the exchanges between David Cameron and Ed Miliband during Prime Minister's Questions in the
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10:00am UK, Friday May 04, 2012 Joey Jones, deputy political editor Ed Miliband's supporters are some way short of euphoria, but these are nonetheless very heartening results for Labour. It is all very well building a national opinion poll lead as the pa
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6:47am UK, Tuesday May 01, 2012 David Cameron has insisted he had seen no evidence that Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt breached the ministerial code of conduct in his handling of News Corp's bid for BSkyB. In an emergency Commons statement, the Prime Mini
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7:39pm UK, Tuesday April 24, 2012 Joey Jones, deputy political editor Jeremy Hunt is firmly in the headlights following James Murdoch's evidence to the Leveson inquiry. One wonders what the Culture Secretary must feel about Mr Murdoch's motivations. The
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Abu Qatada was arrested at his home in London 1:23pm UK, Tuesday April 17, 2012 Radical cleric Abu Qatada has been taken into custody and proceedings to have him deported to Jordan are under way. The Home Office has confirmed it is now preparing to have
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David Cameron on the red carpet in Malaysia ahead of his Burma trip 5:09am UK, Friday April 13, 2012 Sky News deputy political editor, Joey Jones The Prime Minister treads a fine line as he arrives in Burma later today, meeting with both its leader and t
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6:19am UK, Thursday April 12, 2012 The Prime Minister has called for democracy and Islam to work hand-in-hand against extremism, during a landmark speech in Indonesia. David Cameron said the world's largest Muslim country was proof that the religion was
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6:23pm UK, Wednesday April 11, 2012 Joey Jones, deputy political editor, Indonesia David Cameron has described Burma as a "bright spark" where democracy is beginning to flower. Speaking during his official visit to Indonesia, the PM reaffirmed his intent
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David Cameron is seeking greater trade links with Indonesia 8:39am UK, Wednesday April 11, 2012 David Cameron has dismissed queries about attempts to boost the defence trade with Indonesia as he moves on to the country as party of his South East Asia tra
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Prime Minister David Cameron has met Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda in Tokyo 1:37pm UK, Tuesday April 10, 2012 Joey Jones, deputy political editor The Government is adamant trips like the one David Cameron is currently engaged in do bear fruit. A
Blogs
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Posted by - Joey Jones .The Budget is curiously defensive in much of its framing, designed to shore up one controversial decision - dropping the top rate of tax from 50p to 45p.That's why government front-benchers kept doing their splayed-finger wave in
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Posted by - Joey Jones .With so much of the Budget discussions leaked, post-mortems have begun before the Chancellor has even got to his feet. Chatter has been incessant for days, but there will still be more than enough to chew over once George Osborne
Other Journalists
- Adam Boulton Political Editor
- Alex Crawford Special Correspondent
- Alex Rossi Asia Correspondent
- Amanda Walker Moscow Correspondent
- Dominic Waghorn US Correspondent
- Ed Conway Economics Editor
- Emma Hurd Middle East Correspondent
- Greg Milam US Correspondent
- Jason Farrell Investigations Correspondent
- Joey Jones Deputy Political Editor
- Jonathan Samuels Australia Correspondent
- Lucy Cotter Arts and Entertainment Correspondent
- Mark Kleinman City Editor
- Mark Stone Sky News Reporter
- Mark White Home Affairs Correspondent
- Robert Nisbet Europe Correspondent
- Sam Kiley Defence and Security Editor
- Sophy Ridge Political Correspondent
- Stuart Ramsay Chief Correspondent
- Tim Marshall Foreign Affairs Editor
Joey Jones's Tweets
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here's my take on pmqs today. style and substance (from alf the editor) http://t.co/MxJylEnT
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@Moonfreak thanks, appreciate it
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@jaybs understood. will be on again about 1.10, then on website later
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score draw on mobile phone gags for me
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i didn't expect this. we're getting a vintage clip of fry and laurie at the police fed conference.
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Govt sources v chipper about fall in unemployment. Helpful for Cameron as he prepares for lol pmqs
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@BBCNormanS a micro-shuffle I'd call it
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