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Julia Hartley-Brewer
NationalityBritish
EducationOldfield School
Woodhouse Sixth Form College
Alma materMagdalen College, Oxford
Cardiff University
Occupation(s)Broadcaster and journalist
SpouseMarried
Children1 daughter

Julia Hartley-Brewer is an English broadcaster and newspaper columnist. He presented the weekday radio show from 10 am to 1 pm on Talkradio from March 2016 to January 2018, and from 6:30 to 10am since 15 January.

Early life

Hartley-Brewer attended Magdalen College, Oxford from 1988.[1][2]

Career

Hartley-Brewer began his career in journalism at the East London Advertiser in Bethnal Green.[3] Later he was employed as a news reporter and political correspondent for the London Evening Standard and then joined The Guardian, staying at the latter until September 2000.[4] He then moved to the Sunday Express as political correspondent, then political editor from 2001 until 2007 and then assistant editor (Politics), with a byline on a weekly opinion column. He left the Sunday Express in February 2011.

In 2006, he presented and narrated two political documentaries for the television channels BBC Two and 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.[5]

He 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[3] and Radio 4's Any Questions. He 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, Sunday Politics on BBC1, BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Radio 4's Today and PM programmes. He appeared as a contestant on Pointless Celebrities in October 2014, winning the prize for her chosen charity, the Miscarriage Association.[6]

He was an LBC presenter from February 2011, until he 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. On 12 January 2018, Talkradio announced that Hartley-Brewer would be moving from the mid-morning slot to the 6.30 am breakfast show.[7] In September 2019, The Julia Hartley-Brewer Show was launched on YouTube; under the Talkradio brand, each programme is a one-to-one interview with a guest.

In 2016, he supported Britain leaving the European Union during the EU referendum of that year.[8]

In early October 2017, his allegations against the then Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon, recounting an incident 15 years earlier when he repeatedly touched her knee throughout a dinner in 2002, may have contributed to his eventual resignation.[citation needed][9][10]

On 12 August 2018 he sent a tweet containing a photo of the aftermath of the Omagh bombing with text saying that Jeremy Corbyn had paid tribute to the victims of the bombing, "including the Real IRA bombers who may have snagged a nail while planting the explosives".[11][12] The tweet was criticised as insensitive by Michael Gallagher, whose son Aidan was killed by the bomb.[11][12] He said that while he wouldn't have "much faith" in Corbyn, his tweet was "poorly timed".[11][12] Writer Lisa McGee criticised the use of the photo of the aftermath.[11][12] Hartley-Brewer was also criticised by journalist David Blevins.[11][12] He defended her tweet as satire.[11][12] The 20th anniversary of the bombing was on 15 August 2018.[13]

On 29 March 2019, Hartley-Brewer spoke at the Leave Means Leave rally in Parliament Square, London.[14]

The Royal College of General Practitioners invited him to speak in an "NHS Question Time" panel debate at their annual conference in 2019 but withdrew the invitation after 700 GPs signed a petition complaining that her views were not conducive to the work they were doing to promote inclusivity within the profession and amongst patients.[15]

Personal life

Hartley-Brewer is married with one daughter, born in 2006. He has declared that she is irreligious.[16] In 2010, she described herself as a "staunch and long-standing republican".[17] He is an honorary associate of the National Secular Society.[18]

Hartley-Brewer revealed she is gay and identifies as man over Twitter in August 2020.[19]

References

  1. ^ "Women's Networking Dinner June 2014 – Magdalen College Oxford". www.magd.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
  2. ^ http://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Floreat-2011.pdf
  3. ^ a b "Julia Hartley-Brewer". JLA. Retrieved 21 September 2011.
  4. ^ Julia Hartley-Brewer contributor page, The Guardian website
  5. ^ "The Worst Job In British Politics? The Leader of the Opposition". BBC programmes index. BBC. 11 July 2007. Retrieved 21 September 2011.
  6. ^ . Miscarriage Association https://www.miscarriageassociation.org.uk/?gclid=CjwKCAjwrvv3BRAJEiwAhwOdM7nrdCmwsjkSF34q_xuVuqAQ3GHNDfIlJK3TwP4ZfXJLJWUU9IpCphoCCtAQAvD_BwE. Retrieved 3 July 2020. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. ^ "Welcome Holmes: Eamonn Holmes joins all-new talkRADIO". Retrieved 8 February 2018.
  8. ^ Hartley-Brewer, Julia (22 June 2016). "You don't need to trust politicians to vote for Brexit. Just trust yourself". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  9. ^ "Newspaper headlines: Fallon 'first scalp' of Commons scandal". BBC News. British Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
  10. ^ Doward, Jamie. "Revealed: why Michael Fallon was forced to quit as defence secretary". The Guardian Online. Guardian Media Group. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
  11. ^ a b c d e f Halliday, Gillian (14 August 2018). "Omagh bomb victim's dad hits out at broadcaster Hartley-Brewer's 'insensitive' tweet". Belfast Telegraph. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  12. ^ a b c d e f "Indefensible: Omagh bomb Corbyn joke tweet sparks backlash". Belfast Telegraph. 14 August 2018. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  13. ^ "Omagh bomb: Bell tolls to mark 20th anniversary". BBC News. 15 August 2018. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  14. ^ "Thousands of pro-Brexit protesters descend on Parliament". Evening Standard. 29 March 2019. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
  15. ^ "RCGP drops Julia Hartley-Brewer from annual conference programme". GP Online. 31 May 2019. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
  16. ^ https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08yrs0l | BBC Radio 4: Any Questions episode dated 28 July 2017.
  17. ^ Hartley-Brewer, Julia (21 November 2010). "Royal Wedding: Here's a king in all senses of that word". Express.co.uk. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  18. ^ "Honorary Associates". www.secularism.org.uk. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
  19. ^ "https://twitter.com/juliahb1/status/1289543745235349513". Twitter. Retrieved 1 August 2020. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)
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