Kate Devlin is Whitehall Editor at The Independent, covering politics. She is particularly interested in Brexit and its impact on the economy, MPs behaving badly and money in politics. After a short stint on a local newspaper in her native Northern Ireland, her career began as a trainee at the Daily Telegraph. While there she broke the story of the Liverpool Care Pathway scandal. She often appears on the BBC and other broadcasters, providing her insight on the latest breaking political stories. George Osborne called here a "North (Irish) powerhouse."