Julia Hartley-Brewer

Julia Hartley-Brewer (born 2 May 1968) is an English broadcaster and columnist. She has been presenting the weekday morning radio show from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm on talk radio station talkRADIO since 21 March 2016.

Born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, the daughter of a general practitioner, she was educated at Oldfield School in Bath, Somerset, and Woodhouse Sixth Form College in Finchley, North London. Hartley-Brewer holds degrees from the University of Oxford and the University of Cardiff.

Hartley-Brewer began her career in journalism at the East London Advertiser in Bethnal Green. Later she worked as a news reporter and political correspondent for the London Evening Standard and then joined The Guardian, working at the latter until September 2000. She then moved to the Sunday Express as Political Correspondent, then Political Editor from 2001 until 2007 and then Assistant Editor (Politics), also writing a weekly opinion column. She left the Sunday Express in February 2011.

In 2006, she presented and narrated two political documentaries for BBC Two/BBC Four about the history of British deputy prime ministers, called Every Prime Minister Needs a Willie, and the history of the leader of the opposition in The Worst Job in Politics.

She has appeared as a panellist on the comedy quiz show Have I Got News for You seven times as well as being a regular panellist on BBC One's Question Time and Radio 4's Any Questions. She is a regular pundit and commentator on TV and radio, including for Sky News, the BBC News Channel, BBC One's The One Show, ITV's Tonight show, Lorraine on ITV, This Morning on ITV, The Agenda on ITV, Radio 5 Live and Radio 4's Today and PM programmes. She appeared as a contestant on Pointless Celebrities in October 2014, winning the prize for her chosen charity, the Miscarriage Association.

She was an LBC presenter from February 2011, until she left in December 2014 to be replaced by Shelagh Fogarty. Hartley-Brewer now broadcasts on talkRADIO, a talk radio station launched on 21 March 2016.

In 2016 she was a strong supporter of Brexit, Britain's exit from the European Union.

Hartley-Brewer is married with one daughter, born in 2006.