Lewis Denison
Lewis Denison specialises in turning national politics into clear, concrete stories that show how decisions in Westminster change everyday life, with a particular focus on younger audiences and digital formats. He is a political reporter at ITV News covering government policy, elections and social issues across the UK on the website, television bulletins, podcasts and social media. His work mixes explainers, Q&A pieces, interviews and social video, often framed around the rules, rights and services that shape people’s daily experience.
Education reform and phones in schools
Denison devotes a significant part of his reporting to education policy, using detailed explainers and interviews to unpack changes for pupils, parents and teachers.
In his coverage of the ban on mobile phones in schools in England, he sets out how the rules will work and answers practical questions about implementation, timing and classroom impact. He has multiple sit-down interviews with the education secretary, including pieces on new qualifications, GCSE resits and tuition fees, where he breaks down complex reforms into specific changes that students will notice. His Q&A formats on topics such as school toilet breaks, vapes, phones in class and curriculum issues show a consistent approach: take policy announcements and translate them into the concrete choices and restrictions facing young people day to day.
Across these stories he keeps the focus on consequences, not process, linking ministerial decisions on exams, fees and behaviour rules back to how they will shape school life and access to higher education.
Young voters and youth-focused politics
A clear through-line in Denison’s work is engaging teenagers and young adults with politics in language and formats tailored to them.
He is closely involved with youth-focused strands of ITV News, including content created to bring “the biggest stories of the day, the news explained, and the biggest interviews and scoops” specifically for teens. His reporting on lowering the voting age to 16 pairs data and polling of 16 and 17-year-olds with on-the-ground reaction, capturing not just the policy change but how young people themselves feel about new rights and responsibilities.
Across his coverage he returns to themes that matter to younger audiences: education, employment rights, online safety tools like phone bans and vaping rules, and access to housing and social care. Outside broadcast and web stories, he has helped build ITV News’s politics presence on TikTok, including coverage described as the “first TikTok election”, using short explainers and interviews to make party positions and electoral mechanics understandable for newer voters.
This combination of youth-focused interviews, polling and platform-specific storytelling marks him out from more traditional political correspondents who rely primarily on long-form broadcast packages.
Digital explainers and social video
Denison’s beat is firmly rooted in digital political reporting, and he uses that space to experiment with formats that prioritise clarity and brevity without losing detail. Many of his pieces are structured around “your questions answered” or step-by-step explanations, whether he is covering changes to school rules, new voting arrangements or the mechanics of local and national elections. His analysis of local elections emphasises what is at stake for devolved governments, councils and the balance of power nationally, setting out scenarios such as the potential breakup of the UK or severe losses for major parties.
In social video and TikTok, he distils these same themes into concise clips that explain voting systems, government decisions and live political debates, often using simple language and direct to-camera delivery. His background in multimedia production and video journalism, spanning regional news, court reporting and tabloid video work, underpins this digital style, with an emphasis on strong scripting, visual cues and accessible framing.
Across platforms, his output is consistent: short, tightly focused pieces that answer specific questions about how politics works, rather than long opinion-led commentary.
Interviews, investigations and election coverage
Denison combines access to senior political figures with stories that highlight how policy decisions land for workers, carers and families. He has interviewed the chancellor on taxes, business support and the economic outlook, framing the conversation around issues such as pubs, pints and everyday costs to connect macroeconomic policy with household budgets. His sit-downs with the education secretary go beyond headline reforms to explore practical questions on curriculum, university fees and day-to-day schooling rules.
He also conducts extended interviews with party leaders, including Nigel Farage, pressing them on topics such as the European Convention on Human Rights, national service and youth mobility schemes, and linking these positions back to how they would change legal rights and opportunities for young people. Alongside these high-profile interviews, his reporting on kinship carers and the lack of parental leave shows a more investigative thread, using new statistics and personal stories to illustrate how welfare rules force carers out of work and onto benefits.
He has produced coverage highlighting the rise in zero-hours contracts despite attempts to curb them, and uncovered the spread of high-strength illicit nicotine pouches posing health risks to children, tying labour and health regulation to lived experience.
Earlier work on scandals such as Partygate, Ukrainian refugees stuck abroad and abuse in care homes demonstrates a consistent interest in stories where political and bureaucratic decisions directly affect vulnerable people, and where sustained reporting can contribute to change. Whether he is taking viewers behind the scenes at the prime minister’s country residence or explaining the stakes of upcoming elections, his reporting keeps the focus on how power is exercised, what it feels like for those affected and what the rules actually say.
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