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Occupation
  
Journalist

Notable credits
  
Spouse
  
James Forsyth (m. 2011)


Role
  
Journalist

Name
  
Allegra Stratton

Books
  
Muhajababes

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Similar People
  
James Forsyth, Emily Maitlis, Laura Kuenssberg, Kirsty Wark, Cathy Newman

Born
  
10 April 1980 (age 40), Chiswick, London, United Kingdom

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Allegra Stratton (born 25 November 1980) is a British journalist and writer. Since January 2016, she has been the National Editor of ITV News after four years as political editor on BBC Two's Newsnight. She has also co-presented Peston on Sunday with Robert Peston since May 2016.

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Early life

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Stratton attended Chiswick Community School and Latymer Upper School, an independent school in west London. She then attended Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where she read archaeology and anthropology.

Career

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Stratton worked as a producer for the BBC, on the foreign desk at The Times and wrote for The Independent and the New Statesman.

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She then joined The Guardian as a political correspondent, presenting the newspaper's "Politics Weekly" podcast with journalist Tom Clark.

During this period she wrote the novel Muhajababes, which explores the youth culture of the Middle East, which addressed the contradictions of modern life of young adults in Muslim societies.

Stratton returned to the BBC on 20 February 2012, as political editor of Newsnight, replacing Michael Crick who left to become a political correspondent for Channel 4.

In November 2015, it was announced that Stratton was leaving the BBC to join ITV News as its National Editor. Stratton made her first appearance on ITV's News at Ten in January 2016. She co-presents Peston on Sunday, ITV with Robert Peston.

Personal life

Allegra Stratton is married to James Forsyth, political editor of The Spectator magazine. The couple live in Canonbury, North London, and have one child.

Publications

  • Muhajababes New York, Melville House Publishing, 2008. ISBN 1-933633-50-6
  • References

    Allegra Stratton Wikipedia


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