1. Rachel Sabiha Johnson was born on 3 September 1965 and is a British journalist, television presenter, and author who has appeared frequently on political discussion panels, including The Pledge on Sky News and BBC One's debate programme, Question Time.
Rachel Johnson was the lead candidate for Change UK for the South West England constituency in the 2019 European Parliament election.
Rachel Johnson is the younger sister of Boris Johnson, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Conservative MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip; and the elder sister of Jo Johnson, former Conservative MP for Orpington.
On her father's side, Rachel Johnson is a great-granddaughter of Ali Kemal, a liberal Circassian-Turkish journalist and the interior minister in the government of Damat Ferid Pasha, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, who was murdered during the Turkish War of Independence in 1922.
Stanley Rachel Johnson befriended his paternal half-uncle Zeki Kuneralp, Sabiha's son, when Kuneralp was Turkish ambassador to the Court of St James's in the 1960s.
Rachel Johnson was educated at Winsford First School on Exmoor, Primrose Hill Primary in Camden, north London, the European School of Brussels, the independent Ashdown House School in East Sussex, Bryanston School in Dorset and St Paul's Girls' School.
Rachel Johnson moved to the BBC in 1994, but left to move to Washington, DC, as a columnist and freelancer in 1997.
Rachel Johnson has written weekly columns for The Sunday Telegraph, The Daily Telegraph, the Evening Standard and other regular columns for Easy Living and Rachel Johnson magazines, as well as the Financial Times.
Rachel Johnson is a contributing editor of The Spectator and until 2009 was a weekly columnist on The Sunday Times and the Evening Standard, among other publications.
Rachel Johnson now writes a weekly column in The Mail on Sunday, a column for The Big Issue and a column for The Oldie.
Rachel Johnson sits on the boards of Bright Blue, the modernising Tory think-tank, and Intelligence Squared, the international debate forum.
Rachel Johnson is a former panellist on Sky News' weekly debate show, The Pledge, production of which was suspended in 2020.
In September 2009, Rachel Johnson became the ninth editor of The Lady, a weekly magazine established in 1885.
Rachel Johnson was replaced as editor by Matt Warren in January 2012.
Rachel Johnson was a member of the Conservative Party from 2008 to 2011, but later joined the Liberal Democrats in the run up to the 2017 general election because of the Conservative support for Brexit.
Rachel Johnson then considered becoming a Lib Dem candidate in a seat in the West Country, but was barred under the party's rules, having been a member for less than a year.
Rachel Johnson later lamented this decision, describing herself as the "rat that jumped onto a sinking ship" and criticised the party leadership's focus-group attitude to decision-making structure and added that Change UK was a "terrible" name.
Rachel Johnson is married to Ivo Dawnay, a descendant of William Dawnay, 7th Viscount Downe, and maternal grandson of Patrick Boyle, 8th Earl of Glasgow.