Sebastian Payne

Sebastian Early Anthony Payne is a British journalist and former think tank director. He has formerly reported for The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator, before joining the Financial Times in 2016, where he become the paper's Whitehall correspondent. In 2022, he left the paper to become director of the think tank Onward. He left the think tank and joined The Times as a writer and columnist at the end of 2024.