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Tom Newton Dunn: ‘You’ve got to protect your sources and go to some lengths to do that’

By Arun Kakar

Sun political editor Tom Newton Dunn says lobby journalists are the “hub” for gossip in Westminster and will often know more than cabinet ministers.

Newton Dunn has been political editor of the Sun since 2009, winning the politics journalism award at the 2015 British Journalism Awards for revealing the “plebgate” scandal involving former government chief whip Andrew Mitchell.

A stalwart of the Westminster scene, Newton Dunn has told the Media Masters podcast about being part of the “never ending” political conversation.

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