Allegra Stratton
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Mother describes agony of watching her child being groomed by drug dealers
Last year ITV News revealed a leaked Home Office document showing the government knows about, but isn't yet sure quite how to deal with, the issue of county lines. "County lines" is how drug dealers have reinvented, and perhaps reinvigorated, drug dealing in Britain. They now groom children to work as their drug mules, sending them out from the UK's cities to more rural areas where they then… → Read More
The man in charge of Brexit negotiations tells ITV News how he thinks it will work
Oliver Letwin was in charge of Brexit negotiations for David Cameron for all of a fortnight. It wasn’t long, but enough for him to have a good sense of how Brexit negotiations might proceed. Today he spoke to ITV News about what he thought would be easy…and what would be trickier. → Read More
Boris Johnson on what post-Brexit Britain will look like
Much talk in the last 24 hours that Boris Johnson’s Telegraph column is the mother of all U turns – that he wants to be in the single market after all. I thought it was clearly too quickly written with many sentences open to multiple interpretations. Now I see Sam Coates of the Times has spoken to friends of Boris Johnson’s admitting exactly that. It’s clear Boris Johnson is pretty tired. But it… → Read More
Hollywood directors asked by US government to help combat allure of Islamic State on social media
Read Hollywood directors asked by US government to help combat allure of Islamic State on social media latest on ITV News. All the World news → Read More
Parents call for greater awareness of combined pill risks after daughters' deaths
When ITV reported on the inquest into the tragic death of 21-year-old teaching assistant, Fallon Kurek earlier this year, there was an extraordinary response from viewers. More than 600 viewers posted on-line comments. A coroner had found that Fallon died from a blood clot, linked to the contraceptive pill she was taking. → Read More
Beat the Boss: UK prisons' mobile phone epidemic
Read Beat the Boss: UK prisons' mobile phone epidemic latest on ITV News. All the news → Read More
Should tax be used to control consumer behaviour?
Back in the early days of David Cameron, when his then top adviser Steve Hilton padded around Downing Street in a t-shirt, jeans and no shoes (journalists like me miss those days...the stories were always amusing) the government did a lot of nudging. → Read More
George Osborne’s collapsing sofa
In November because of a recalculation of this and that, the Office of Budget Responsibility gave the Chancellor some wiggle room - £27 billion of wiggle room. When this was announced, joking about the idea that this £27bn was effectively found down the back of a sofa, the OBR boss Robert Chote said: “What the sofa gives, the sofa can also take away”. Well, in this case - the sofa collapsed… → Read More
Chancellor George Osborne delivers Budget
Chancellor George Osborne is delivering his Budget to the Commons. He is expected to set out £4 billion of spending cuts and plans to turn every school in England into an academy. → Read More
Plans to turn every school in England into an academy a 'Big Bang' moment for education
A Big Bang in education policy is on the way. It's quite likely that if your child is at a primary, their school is about to change over the next five or six years... And about a 40% chance that if they are at a secondary, their school is also about to change as all schools will now need to become academies. Right now we have some 17,500 primary schools. The Government is now to make all of them… → Read More
Chancellor prepares to deliver Budget 'for next generation'
Chancellor George Osborne will set out £4 billion of spending cuts and plans to turn every school in England into an academy when he delivers his 2016 Budget. The £1.5 billion education package will allow some schools in England to open longer. Ahead of his Commons speech, Mr Osborne said: "Today's Budget sets out long-term solutions to long-term problems. It's a Budget that puts the next… → Read More
Why it's hard to get the real facts on the junior doctors' row
Well, well - the junior doctors row. Rarely has a fact check exercise been so tricky. Independent analysts don't want to analyse independently, learned academics don't want to be learned on TV. "It's all too political," they said as I phoned my way round Britain's health industry today. → Read More
Are you in the dark about childcare entitlements?
If you have a young family, you may right now be stuck in the middle of a bewildering maze. You're aware that somewhere out there is childcare support from the government - but exactly what, that is clear as mud. Well, don't worry - you're not alone. Now the government's own advisers have released a survey today that suggests many people are "in the dark". The Social Mobility and Child Poverty… → Read More
Are the latest government immigration statistics correct?
Last week a mini-sigh of relief could almost be heard from government. The annual net migration stats were out and while they were high, they actually showed a very slight dip on last year. → Read More