Sophie Barnes

Investigations Correspondent

Sophie Barnes is part of the award-winning Telegraph Investigations team along with Claire Newell, Katherine Rushton and Janet Eastham. The team has published a series of groundbreaking exclusives that have held the powerful to account. From Covid scandals, #MeToo and corruption in sport, the team has uncovered evidence that has led to criminal and parliamentary inquiries.

Labour ‘must cut ties’ with party behind Tulip Siddiq’s despot aunt’s regime

Links with the Bangladeshi former regime accused of ‘corruption and repression’ extend to other senior members, the Telegraph can reveal

Investigations team 16 Jan 2025, 12:32am

Vaccine injury scheme has cost taxpayers more to run than it has paid out to victims

Campaigners call for urgent reform to ‘inefficient and ineffective’ compensation scheme

Investigations team 14 Jan 2025, 5:40pm
Streeting could change law to update Covid vaccine compensation scheme

Health Secretary has ‘commissioned officials to work up a number of options’

Investigations team 12 Jan 2025, 9:35pm
Tulip Siddiq enjoyed cricket freebie with member of her dictator aunt’s party

Anti-corruption minister went to a World Cup game with former Awami League politician

Telegraph Investigations team 11 Jan 2025, 4:23pm

MoD to house Afghan refugees in hotels despite Labour pledge

Sites to be used ‘temporarily’ to accommodate those who worked with UK during combat operations in country

Investigations team 18 Dec 2024, 6:26pm
BBC was alerted to Gregg Wallace complaints on four programmes

Pressure mounts on corporation to launch own investigation into MasterChef presenter as details of 19 incidents revealed

Investigations team 7 Dec 2024, 6:24pm
MasterChef contestant in Gregg Wallace Asian joke row says alleged comments were ‘definitely racist’

Thai professor says he also ‘didn’t feel good about’ the way the BBC presenter treated him on set in 2018

Investigations team 3 Dec 2024, 6:21pm
Melanie Sykes: My experience with Gregg Wallace led me to quit TV

Former presenter alleges that MasterChef host was ‘unprofessional’ on set with an ‘extra helping of arrogance’

Investigations team 2 Dec 2024, 8:54pm
The Daily T: Gregg Wallace allegations raise questions for the BBC

And as Keir Starmer’s approval ratings plummet, he announces his ‘Plan for Change’ - but can he reverse Labour’s fortunes?

Camilla Tominey 2 Dec 2024, 5:30pm
Gregg Wallace faces mounting backlash after blaming scandal on ‘middle-class women of a certain age’

Ulrika Jonsson ‘seething’ after ‘arrogant’ MasterChef presenter dismisses claims of inappropriate behaviour

Investigations team 1 Dec 2024, 11:37pm

Gregg Wallace boasted of daily sex act with his partner, Kirstie Allsopp claims

Presenter alleges former MasterChef host was unprofessional on set with brag that made her feel ‘embarrassed’

Connor Stringer 1 Dec 2024, 4:24pm
‘I blew the whistle on Gregg Wallace’s inappropriate behaviour but nothing was done’

Former producer says BBC presenter ‘undressed in front of colleagues’ and made ‘sexual jokes’

Investigations team 30 Nov 2024, 8:15pm
‘Me so horny’: Gregg Wallace’s alleged racist remarks about Asian MasterChef contestant

Former colleague complained to BBC about presenter’s offensive comments and ‘kung fu fighting noises’ on set

Investigations team 29 Nov 2024, 5:48pm
How the Telegraph uncovered true scale of Gregg Wallace allegations

MasterChef star embroiled in claims that banter laced with occasional sexual innuendo has crossed the line

Investigations team 28 Nov 2024, 9:40pm
Gregg Wallace ‘steps away’ from MasterChef after Telegraph investigates ‘misconduct’

Former production team member claims presenter held her head and thrust his body towards her, mimicking a sex act

Investigations team 28 Nov 2024, 9:18pm
Ulrika Jonsson claims Gregg Wallace made rape ‘joke’ on MasterChef

Another female contestant is said to have become ‘really distressed’ after presenter allegedly made inappropriate remark

Investigations team 28 Nov 2024, 8:57pm
Funeral directors charged with preventing lawful burial of dead body

Richard Elkin and Hayley Bell are charged in Hampshire over the alleged incident in 2023

Sophie Barnes 20 Nov 2024, 5:53pm
Lucy Letby NHS trust deleted WhatsApp messages and emails, tribunal finds

Countess of Chester Hospital and its chairman criticised for ‘unreasonable behaviour’ by judge

Telegraph Investigations team 4 Oct 2024, 7:09pm
Healthy 27-year-old died after NHS wrongly gave him AstraZeneca Covid jab

Jack Last suffered rare side-effect that caused bleeding on the brain

Investigations team 17 Sep 2024, 2:01pm
Nadine Dorries and the WhatsApp messages that broke a grieving mother’s heart

Health minister told Matt Hancock ‘we aren’t going there’ when mother of man found dead at mental health unit called for public inquiry

The Lockdown Files Team 6 Sep 2024, 6:43pm
BBC paid millions to paedophile chauffeur

In an exclusive interview with The Telegraph, victim Alex Cooke speaks out for the first time

Investigations team 23 Aug 2024, 5:55pm
Five Premier League players targeted by match-fixers, whistleblower reveals

Exclusive: Also read how Telegraph Investigations team accessed and exposed inner workings of an international match-fixing ring

Telegraph Investigations team 14 Aug 2024, 8:32am