Former ITV newsreader ‘has moved on’

Alastair Stewart says that he has “moved on” following his departure from ITV News.

The news reader ,68, stepped down from his role in January, saying that he made a “misjudgment which I regret”.

A Twitter exchange, in which he quoted a Shakespeare passage, including the phrase“angry ape ”, is thought to have led to his departure from ITN.

“I don’t wish to go back into ITV News,” he said. “I have no desire to go down that road … I’ve moved on.

Talking about the use of language, he said: “People are having to be so desperately careful nowadays. But I think that can constrain freedom of debate.”