Profile: Allegra Stratton - the face of No. 10’s new televised press briefings

Former BBC journalist to front US-style daily updates at Downing Street

Allegra Stratton appearing at the Policy Exchange think tank
(Image credit: Policy Exchange/Commons)

Former BBC journalist Allegra Stratton is in the media spotlight after landing what some commentators are calling “the worst job in politics” - fronting No. 10’s new daily televised press briefings.

Stratton has served as director of strategic communications for Chancellor Rishi Sunak since quitting broadcasting in July, but is now leaving the Treasury to become Boris Johnson’s most high-profile spokesperson.

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  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.