Jasmine Cameron-Chileshe

Political Journalist

United Kingdom

Jasmine Cameron-Chileshe is an award winning political journalist at ITV National News.

She regularly interviews cabinet ministers on camera including the Foreign Secretary and Home Secretary and produces live analysis and packages for Lunchtime News, Evening News and News at Ten.

Jasmine was recently named on the Forbes 30 under 30 2024 list and nominated for up and coming broadcast journalist of the year.

Prior to joining ITV News in summer 2023, she worked as a political correspondent at the Financial Times newspaper and was a regular political commentator on Sky News, BBC News, LBC and Times Radio.

Between 2018 and 2020, Jasmine worked as a reporter at the Daily Telegraph on their two-year graduate scheme.

As part of the scheme, she worked as a general news reporter at the Liverpool ECHO and the Press Association.

She also reported across the Telegraph news, technology intelligence, global health security, features and business desks.

As a result of her reporting, Jasmine was named GG2 Young Journalist of the Year in 2019.

She graduated from the University of Oxford in 2017 and completed her journalism training with the Press Association.

A selection of some of her work can be found below and, on her ITV and FT author page here:

https://www.itv.com/news/meet-the-team/jasmine-cameron-chileshe

https://www.ft.com/jasmine-cameron-chileshe

Please get in touch with Jasmine via Twitter or email ([email protected])

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ITV News

Financial Times

Ft
10/13/2022
Liz Truss under pressure to drop 'reckless' UK Israel embassy move

Exclusive: Prime minister Liz Truss has been urged by foreign policy experts to rethink her government's review into moving the British embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, as fears grow that a relocation could damage the UK's reputation and jeopardise security in the region.

Ft
03/10/2022
Lib Dems pave way for pact with Labour to oust Tories

Exclusive: Sir Ed Davey, Liberal Democrat leader, has paved the way for a possible working relationship with Labour in a hung parliament to oust Boris Johnson's Conservatives, pouring praise on Sir Keir Starmer for transforming the UK's largest opposition party.

Ft
11/22/2020
Business groups call on Johnson to rethink overseas aid cuts

Exclusive: Business groups, including the CBI and International Chambers of Commerce, have joined growing calls for the government to maintain its overseas aid target of 0.7 per cent of gross domestic product ahead of the chancellor's spending review announcement on Wednesday.

Ft
07/15/2021
Overseas aid cuts make UK an outlier among G7

Long read: Some now fear that the government’s decision to slash foreign aid has undermined the notion of “Global Britain” and sent a clear signal to the rest of the world that the UK has taken a step back

Ft
05/24/2021
Africa feels the brunt of UK foreign aid cuts

Long Read: In northern Mozambique, British government aid has helped the International Planned Parenthood Federation save the lives of pregnant women who are among the thousands of people displaced by the conflict triggered by an Islamist uprising.

Ft
03/06/2022
UK steps up efforts to target unvaccinated

Long read: Ministers have hailed the national vaccination programme as a great success. But as the UK enters the next stage of the pandemic, there is urgency among health and government officials to reach out to the estimated 8.5 per cent of people aged 12 and over who remain unvaccinated.

FT
03/29/2021
London lags behind as the UK's vaccine rollout gathers pace

Long read: Mehta is one of more than 25m people now vaccinated across England, as the government races towards its goal of offering the first dose of the jab to all over-50s by April 15. However, concerns about the vaccine remain among ethnic minority groups and residents within the UK capital.

Ft
04/23/2021
Vaccine uptake rises among England's ethnic minorities

Long read: Vaccine uptake among ethnic minorities throughout England is steadily rising, however substantial gaps remain between the proportion of white and minority ethnic residents who have received the Covid-19 jab, data analysis has shown.

Ft
12/14/2020
London to enter toughest coronavirus restrictions

Front page splash; Boris Johnson's government has triggered anguish among struggling businesses by imposing the toughest Covid-19 restrictions on London as a new variant of the virus takes hold in England.

Ft
10/12/2020
Johnson faces Tory backlash over tough lockdown plan

Front page splash: Boris Johnson faces a Conservative backlash on Tuesday after Liverpool became the first region in England to accept tough new lockdown restrictions under a new three-tier Covid-19 alert system.

Ft
11/02/2020
Under-fire Boris Johnson insists winter lockdown is 'time-limited'

Front page splash: Boris Johnson has attempted to quell Conservative and business anger over his handling of the Covid-19 crisis by insisting that a new national lockdown in England would not herald a winter of open-ended closures and claiming the virus could be beaten "by the spring".

Ft
09/18/2020
Johnson warns UK faces second wave of coronavirus

Front page splash: Boris Johnson on Friday warned that the UK was heading into a second wave of coronavirus, as he put the country on notice that major new restrictions may be necessary to tackle the rising number of infections.

The Telegraph

Liverpool Echo

Liverpool Echo
04/07/2019
What is causing Liverpool's girls to self harm?

Exclusive: In the past nine years, in two Liverpool hospitals, around seven in ten of all youngsters admitted with self-harm injuries were girls. According to data, between 2010 and 2018, of the total number of under 18 patients admitted to Aintree University Hospital NHS Trust, girls made up 73% of admissions.

Liverpool ECHO
03/21/2019
Merseyside hit with mumps - and parents may be to blame

Exclusive: The number of confirmed mumps cases within Merseyside has increased by 562%. According to the data from Public Health England (PHE), since the start of 2019, 106 cases of mumps have been confirmed, compared to 16 cases during the same period in 2018.