Who is Robert Peston? ITV political editor, Charlotte Edwardes’ partner and Peston presenter and author
JOURNALIST and TV host Robert Peston is a well-known name and face on British TV due to his years in and around the Westminster scene.
Here is everything you need to know about ITV's political editor...
Who is Robert Peston?
British journalist Robert Peston is known for being the Political Editor of ITV News.
He has worked in a number of newsrooms, for titles including The Independent, The Spectator, The Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Times.
From 2013, Peston worked as the Economics Editor of BBC News, before deciding to leave the Beeb in favour of a job as Political Editor at ITV News.
Arguably Peston is best known for his reporting during the financial crisis of the late 2000s, including a number of scoops over the financial difficulties of bank Northern Rock.
She says that Johnson, then editor of the Spectator, put his hand "high" up her leg and had “enough inner flesh beneath his fingers” to make her “sit suddenly upright”.
Edwardes was at the time a young newspaper reporter and occasional contributor to the magazine.
She says that after the dinner, she confided what had happened to the woman who had been sat on Johnson's opposite side, who she knew.
She says the woman replied: "Oh God, he did exactly the same to me."
Edwardes was writing to mark the second anniversary of the start of the #MeToo movement, which began in October 2017 after allegations by dozens of women of sexual misconduct by movie mogul Harvey Weinstein emerged.
The movement saw women around the world sharing stories of sexual harassment and abuse they had suffered on social media using the hashtag #MeToo.