Elizabeth Frances Rigby (Beth Rigby) is a British journalist. She has worked for Sky News since 2016 and became its political editor in 2019.
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Rigby previously worked as a newspaper journalist for the Financial Times and The Times.
Rigby graduated with a first in social and political science from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
After that, she went on to gain a master’s degree in economics and development studies from the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of London.
After graduating from the Institute of Latin American Studies, Rigby spent a period of time teaching English in Portugal, before joining the Financial Times as a graduate trainee in 1998.
Rigby’s role at the newspaper included hedge fund correspondent, retail correspondent and consumer industries editor, before she became chief political correspondent in 2010 and deputy political editor in January 2013.

Rigby joined The Times in 2015 as media editor before moving to Sky News in 2016, initially as senior political correspondent, before being promoted in July 2018 to deputy political editor.
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In February 2019, Rigby was appointed political editor and took up the post on 12 April 2019, replacing Faisal Islam, who had joined BBC News as economics editor.
Beth Rigby Weight Loss
In an interview with The Guardian, Rigby indicated that she has plans to get off TV soon.
She asserted that television personalities, get an insane amount of scrutiny over how they look.
What has happened to Beth Rigby? She indicated that such scrutiny about her looks has made her more conscious about her weight.
“I love eating, which is why I exercise so much,” she said.
Rigby also commented on Pm Boris Johnson’s weight loss;
PM has lost 26lbs, says you have to ‘search for the hero inside yourself’ and try to lose weight like he did. “I was too fat”
— Beth Rigby (@BethRigby) October 6, 2020


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