Allegra Elizabeth Jane Stratton is a former British political staffer, journalist, and writer who served as Boris Johnson’s Downing Street Press Secretary from November 2020 until April 2021.
Stratton was a political journalist for The Guardian before joining the BBC in 2012, where she served as political editor of BBC Two’s Newsnight from 2012 to 2016.
From 2016 until 2018, she worked for ITV as national editor of ITV News and co-presenter of Peston on Sunday.
She became a spokeswoman for the British government after leaving journalism.
Why did Allegra Stratton resign?
Stratton was hired as the spokesperson for COP26 President Alok Sharma in April 2021.
She resigned in December 2021 after video of her at a December 2020 news conference rehearsal, in which she laughed with colleagues about a Christmas party that took place surreptitiously at 10 Downing Street while the country was under COVID-19 lockdown, was revealed.
Where is Allegra Stratton now? What is Allegra Stratton doing now?
She works as the Director of Strategic Communications at the Treasury under Chancellor Rishi Sunak.
