Allen then switched to television and was ITN political correspondent until 1992, when he was one of "a string of high-profile resignations" following the company's budget cuts.
[5] Also in 1997, The Times described the "witty repartee" of Allen and co-presenter (and future protagonist[6]) Jane Garvey as the best illustration of the station's tone, "friendly, informal, brisk, and mercifully, not terribly politically correct".
[10] In 2007, newspapers cited unnamed sources which said that Allen had been rejected as John Humphrys' replacement on BBC Radio 4's Today programme because he was not "posh enough" and did not have an Oxbridge background.
In July 2014 the BBC announced that he was moving to a morning slot for three days a week, replacing Victoria Derbyshire who was leaving the station.
[6] From January 2018 to September 2019 he co-hosted a Sunday evening programme on the same station, Peter Allen and Caroline Barker, in which the presenters were to "delve into the personalities behind the headlines".