Vicky Spratt

Between 2013 and 2015 Spratt worked as a freelance journalist, writing opinion, features and news and reporting for publications including The Telegraph, BBC Magazine, The Debrief and Broadly. Articles were mostly about politics and women's lifestyle. In January 2017, she began a role as Deputy editor at The Debrief.

Spratt's radio documentary Generation Right, which she wrote and co-presented, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 16 June 2014. The documentary investigates changing political views across generations.^[5]

Spratt made a short documentary about abortion rights in Northern Ireland for The Debrief, addressing the effect of Theresa May's coalition with the DUP.^[6]

Spratt's first book, Tenants, was published by Profile Books in 2022. James Riding reviewed the book positively for The Times, describing it as "excoriating".^[7] The book was also chosen for The Guardian's "Book of the Day".^[8] Spratt began research for the book in 2017.^[8]

In 2016 Spratt ran a campaign, Make Renting Fair, in her role at The Debrief to highlight the plight of ‘Generation Rent’ which resulted in the Government announcing a ban on letting agency fees for tenants.

She has also worked to highlight the mental health side effects of hormonal contraception, and her Debrief investigation Mad About The Pill was covered on Radio 4 and BBC news. She wrote and co-presented a documentary about the politics of young people for Radio 4, Generation Right, and has written for VICE, Broadly, BBC, The Independent, The Evening Standard and The Spectator.