Organisation · GOV.UK transparency returns · Ben Taylor, Editor of The Sunday Times, Caroline Wheeler, Political Editor of The Sunday Times, Tim Shipman, Chief Political Commentator of The Sunday Times
Ben Taylor, Editor of The Sunday Times, Caroline Wheeler, Political Editor of The Sunday Times, Tim Shipman, Chief Political Commentator of The Sunday Times
- Identity
organisation:govuk:Ben Taylor, Editor of The Sunday Times, Caroline Wheeler, Political Editor of The Sunday Times, Tim Shipman, Chief Political Commentator of The Sunday Times— the GOV.UK transparency returns key, used as-is. No identity here is invented.- Graph built
- 5 September 2026
Names in the records
Each spelling a register uses for this entity, and the method that tied it here. A name is never the identity; a similar name is never a match.
| As published | Register | Tied by | Confidence | Rows |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ben Taylor, Editor of The Sunday Times, Caroline Wheeler, Political Editor of The Sunday Times, Tim Shipman, Chief Political Commentator of The Sunday Times | GOV.UK transparency returns | exact name within one register | 1.0 | 1 |
What the records establish
- Ben Taylor, Editor of The Sunday Times, Caroline Wheeler, Political Editor of The Sunday Times, Tim Shipman, Chief Political Commentator of The Sunday Times: 1 record of "recorded meeting with a minister" on 2 October 2023.
| Relationship | With | Date | Amount | Detail | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| recorded meeting with a minister | Rishi Sunak | 2 October 2023 | — | ministerial_meetings |
What this does not establish
The records above establish that Ben Taylor, Editor of The Sunday Times, Caroline Wheeler, Political Editor of The Sunday Times, Tim Shipman, Chief Political Commentator of The Sunday Times and each entity named appear together in an official register, in the relationship that register records, on the date it records. They do not establish why any donation was made, why any contract was awarded, whether any one record was known to the people behind another, or that any record caused another. No causal inference is made on this page, and nothing here is a finding of any kind against anyone. A reported donation is a lawful, reported transaction; a contract award is a published notice; a seat is a seat.
Derived from: ministerial_meetings. Each row above names the table and key it came from and links the official record where one exists. How the graph is built is described at the evidence graph.