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Correspondent and presenter on ITV News

Joined March 2010
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We’ve been reporting on problems with the Mental Capacity Act for over a year. @wesstreeting has promised now the Act will be reviewed and reformed. None of this possible without the courage of people like Sally telling us their stories and the campaigning of Fiona Laskaris
When Sally Agarwal's ex-partner suffered a catastrophic brain injury, leaving him with a five-minute memory, she thought the system would step in and help. But four years on, and amid her own cancer diagnosis, she is still providing round-the-clock care at her home for Mark, who is unaware that he has been injured, ITV News' Political Correspondent @romillyweeks and Senior Political Producer @menendez_elisa report itv.com/news/2026-03-25/the-…
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Kemi Badenoch’s attack on Rachel Reeves unusually personal “a woman wallowing in self pity…whining about mansplaining and misogyny” calls her “spineless shameless and completely aimless” Uncomfortable #Budget2025
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Rachel Reeves face when Kemi Badenoch says she will go down in history as the country’s worst chancellor #Budget2025
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The chancellor makes lifting 2 child benefit cap personal “I came into politics because I believe every child has equal worth” #Budget2025
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Labour MPs delighted but this policy isn’t supported by the majority of the public
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Chx confirms what we all know she’s freezing tax thresholds until 2030/31
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But she says she is making tax system fairer by increasing both basic and higher rate tax on property, savings and dividends
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Chx claims she will find 4.9bn in departmental efficiencies and 10bn a year in unpaid tax and fraud. Most chancellors promise these crackdowns few manage to deliver them @ITVNewsPolitics
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Delegates will leave rather happier than they arrived
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Kemi Badenoch’s speech ends - this is the Britain I want to build. After a year of letting Reform make all the running the Tories do now have some policies to shout about and scrapping stamp duty is going down well @ITVNewsPolitics
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Kemi Badenoch frames new Tory commitment to paying down deficit and tax cuts as ‘responsibility today opportunity tomorrow’
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Says she’s not a climate sceptic but a net zero sceptic and we should “drill our oil and gas now”
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Jenrick says when he was in Handsworth “for an hour or 2 I didn’t see a mix of people .. this issue has got worse there are more pockets of our towns and cities where people are living segregated lives, places that ressemble ghettos”
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“I am not backing down” he tells @dailytelegraph
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@RobertJenrick says he is “not backing down” over his comments on Handsworth to @dailytelegraph
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Rather a brutal exiting of half the audience before Chris Philip’s speech so they missed him declaring re borders ‘we are the only party that has a plan that is radical and will work in practice”
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Kemi Badenoch criticises @reformparty_uk for the “failed politics of making announcements without a plan’
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That after having some difficulty this morning answering questions about the detail of the Borders plan to @bbclaurak
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PM’s speech will be a flag fest - flags being given to all the delegates to wave @ITVNewsPolitics
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Don't listen to Nigel Farage - the Health Secretary and doctors' advice to pregnant women worried about paracetamol claims @itvnews
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"Are you a scientist?" Richard Tice doubles down on questioning the science AND the questions posed by my colleague @GregOckrim
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The govt is talking to welfare rebels about another major concession ahead of the vote this evening to try to avoid a defeat @ITVNewsPolitics
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