Josh Simons (b. 1993) is an English Labour Party politician serving as Member of Parliament for Makerfield since 2024. He has served as a Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office since 2025.
Simons was born on 24 July 1993 to a Jewish father from Bury, Greater Manchester and a mother from a Scottish family born in Bristol. He was educated at The Perse School in Cambridge.
He was an undergraduate at St John's College, Cambridge, where he studied for a Bachelor of Arts in Social and Political Sciences. He was an editor of the student newspapers Varsity and The Tab.
He became a policy adviser to the Leader of the Opposition in 2015, following Jeremy Corbyn's election as Labour Leader. Simons moved from the Leader's Office to London Labour iJosh Simons (b. 1993) is an English Labour Party politician serving as Member of Parliament for Makerfield since 2024. He has served as a Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office since 2025.
Simons was born on 24 July 1993 to a Jewish father from Bury, Greater Manchester and a mother from a Scottish family born in Bristol. He was educated at The Perse School in Cambridge.
He was an undergraduate at St John's College, Cambridge, where he studied for a Bachelor of Arts in Social and Political Sciences. He was an editor of the student newspapers Varsity and The Tab.
He became a policy adviser to the Leader of the Opposition in 2015, following Jeremy Corbyn's election as Labour Leader. Simons moved from the Leader's Office to London Labour in 2016, and returned to Cambridge as a research assistant to Helen Thompson later in the year.
Simons studied for a doctorate in Government, Political Theory and Political Science at Harvard University from 2016 to 2021. His doctorate, supervised by Michael Sandel, was adapted into his book Algorithms for the People: Democracy in the Age of AI. He continued at Harvard as a postdoctoral fellow.
Simons was director of the think tank Labour Together from 2022 until his Parliamentary selection in 2024....more