[citation needed] Brazier joined Sky News in 1997, where he covered politics, the Royal Family and had several foreign postings, in addition to anchoring studio coverage.

He was the first British journalist to enter Iraq with coalition troops during the 2003 invasion, Brazier's documentary, Brothers in Baghdad, was later shortlisted at the 48th Monte-Carlo Television Festival.

[10] In 2014 he was Sky's sole nominee in the Royal Television Society Awards Presenter of the Year category for his work in Nairobi during the Westgate shopping mall attack[11] and Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.

[citation needed] In July 2014, following the destruction of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine, Brazier was filmed tampering with the contents of a victim's luggage.

[23][24] In August 2021 it was replaced by a different programme, leaving Brazier's sole presenting role as filling in for Andrew Neil in the 8 pm slot.

[27] Brazier joined LBC in April 2023 to host late nights Monday to Thursday 10pm-1am, having worked as a cover presenter some weeks prior.

Brazier's last show on LBC was on 31 August 2023, when he decided to retire from journalism to study farming, "a 'dream' he has long held", at the Royal Agricultural University.

[28] In 1999, Brazier married Joanna Roughton, at the time Reuters Asia editor and then Sky's head of foreign news until 2002, with whom he had six children.