Julia Hartley-Brewer was born on 2 May 1968 and is an English political journalist, newspaper columnist and radio presenter.
30 Facts About Julia Hartley-Brewer
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Julia Hartley-Brewer is the daughter of Michael John Hartley-Brewer, who unsuccessfully stood as the Labour Party's candidate in Selly Oak in the 1970 general election, and general practitioner Valerie Forbes Hartley-Brewer.
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Julia Hartley-Brewer's parents divorced, and her mother trained as a GP while bringing up two children.
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Later, Julia Hartley-Brewer studied at Woodhouse Sixth Form College in Finchley, North London.
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Julia Hartley-Brewer gained a degree in philosophy, politics and economics at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1988.
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Julia Hartley-Brewer later studied for a diploma in journalism at Cardiff University's School of Journalism.
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Julia Hartley-Brewer began her career in journalism at the East London Advertiser in Bethnal Green, east London.
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Julia Hartley-Brewer then moved to the Sunday Express as political correspondent, then political editor from 2001 until 2007 and then assistant editor.
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Julia Hartley-Brewer was an LBC presenter from February 2011, until she left in December 2014 to be replaced by Shelagh Fogarty.
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Julia Hartley-Brewer presented the mid-morning weekday show from March 2016 until 15 January 2018, when she moved to host the weekday breakfast show from 6.30am to 10am.
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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.
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Julia Hartley-Brewer has written opinion articles and columns for publications such as The Daily Telegraph, The Mail on Sunday, and The Spectator about politics and current affairs.
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Julia Hartley-Brewer has appeared as a panellist on the comedy quiz show Have I Got News for You ten times, as well as being a regular panellist on BBC One's Question Time and Radio 4's Any Questions.
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Julia Hartley-Brewer is a regular pundit and commentator on TV and radio, including for Sky News, BBC One's The One Show, This Morning on ITV, BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Radio 4's Today and PM programmes.
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Julia Hartley-Brewer was a contestant on Pointless Celebrities in October 2014, winning the prize for her chosen charity.
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Julia Hartley-Brewer was a long-standing supporter of Brexit during the campaign in 2016.
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On 29 March 2019, Julia Hartley-Brewer spoke at the Leave Means Leave rally in Parliament Square, London.
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Julia Hartley-Brewer is an honorary associate of the National Secular Society.
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At the Oxford University PPE Society on 20 November 2018, Julia Hartley-Brewer gave a talk on "Political Correctness and Free Speech", in which she argued that political correctness damaged the ability to freely express political views.
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Julia Hartley-Brewer has been referred to as "right-wing" by Nick Duffy writing for PinkNews.
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One of such views involved a deleted Tweet from 2016, in which Julia Hartley-Brewer said "Powell wasn't a racist".
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In June 2016, Julia Hartley-Brewer said Owen Jones had "more in common with ISIS than he thinks" on Sky News after Jones walked out of an interview on the news channel following host Mark Longhurst's refusal to refer to the Orlando nightclub shooting as an assault on LGBT people.
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Julia Hartley-Brewer said, "neither the Sky presenter Mark Longhurst nor I said anything that was offensive, wrong or bigoted in any way" and that she would not apologise to Jones.
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In October 2017, Julia Hartley-Brewer alleged that the then Defence Secretary, Sir Michael Fallon, had repeatedly touched her knee throughout a dinner in 2002; the allegation contributed to his eventual resignation.
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Julia Hartley-Brewer said that while he wouldn't have "much faith" in Corbyn, her tweet was "poorly timed".
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In October 2019, Jolyon Maugham accused Julia Hartley-Brewer of revealing his home address at a time when he was receiving death threats.
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Julia Hartley-Brewer defended herself by saying Maugham's address was already easily available online and that he had previously revealed it himself in published interviews.
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In December 2022, Julia Hartley-Brewer referred to environmental activist Greta Thunberg's autism in a tweet, following Thunberg's criticism of internet personality Andrew Tate.
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Julia Hartley-Brewer stated in both the original and re-posted tweet that she would "choose Andrew Tate's life *every single time*" over Thunberg's.
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Julia Hartley-Brewer is on the advisory council of the Free Speech Union.