He then reported on politics for Good Morning Britain, and joined the network ITV News team in 2016.
[7] During the 2016 EU membership referendum, Brand was the first reporter to call the defining result in Sunderland as Leave.
[11] Following Laura Kuenssberg's announcement of her departure as political editor of BBC News, Brand was described in the media as a frontrunner for the position.
[10] Etchingham had decided to step down from Tonight to concentrate on ITV News at Ten and documentary projects.
[7] Brand first reported a photograph from November 2020 of Prime Minister Boris Johnson raising a glass at a party.
Cuddeford is a civil servant working at the Geospatial Commission, a government body which is part of the Cabinet Office.
Brand used Twitter to deny claims that his source is a family member, and said he had been subjected to homophobic abuse and disinformation by internet trolls.
[6] Brand won an Excellence in Journalism Award from Press Gazette in July 2020 for his investigations which revealed that patients were being discharged from hospitals into care homes without being tested for COVID-19.