Samantha Leathers.

Samantha Leathers is a freelance journalist with a passion for making finance news accessible and interesting, believing that everyone deserves to understand what their money is doing. Having spent years as a money & lifestyle reporter for Reach plc, her work has appeared online across the Express, Mirror, Daily Star and countless regional publications, covering a range of topics from big Budget news and benefits to the small victories of side hustlers.

When she's not knee-deep in HMRC stats, Samantha enjoys being mediocre at crochet and slightly worse at pub quizzes.