George Eaton

George Eaton (born 27 November 1986) is a British writer and journalist. He is Senior Editor (Politics) of the New Statesman, a position he was appointed to in January 2024. He was previously political editor from 2014 to 2018 and joint deputy editor from 2018 to 2019, when he was moved to Assistant Editor after his controversial Roger Scruton interview.

Career Eaton was educated at Berkhamsted School and later studied at the University of Warwick between 2005 and 2008, graduating with a first class degree in History and Politics. He was President of Warwick Labour from 2005-06 and Secretary of Warwick Politics Society from 2006-07.

After working for PoliticsHome, He was political editor of the New Statesman from 2014 to 2018, joint deputy editor from 2018 to 2019. After his controversial Roger Scruton article, he moved to the position of assistant editor. Since February 2020 he has worked as Senior Online Editor. He has also written for The Times, The Sunday Times and The Evening Standard.

Eaton has interviewed public intellectuals including Francis Fukuyama, Christopher Hitchens, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Yanis Varoufakis and Ben Bernanke.

In August 2018, Eaton interviewed former chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks who said that Jeremy Corbyn's remark that British Zionists "don't understand English irony" was "the most offensive statement made by a senior British politician since Enoch Powell's 1968 'Rivers of Blood' speech". The interview became a defining moment in the Labour Party's antisemitism crisis.

He has featured in debating panels on various news stations such as BBC News, Sky News and RT, discussing issues including health tourism and Scottish independence. In February 2015, he sat on a panel hosted by the PR company Fishburn at the Royal Society of Arts on the 2015 general election. The article led to Scruton being removed as a government adviser. In response, Eaton posted a photograph to his public Instagram account showing him drinking from a bottle of champagne with the caption, "The feeling when you get right-wing racist and homophobe Roger Scruton sacked."

Scruton said Eaton had mischaracterised some of his comments. After journalist Douglas Murray acquired a copy of the actual interview Scruton was exonerated. The New Statesman later apologised to Scruton, saying that partial quotations used to promote the article did not accurately represent his views.