Julia Hartley-Brewer (born 2 May 1968) is a conservative British radio presenter, political journalist, and newspaper columnist.
[6] Later, she 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.
[citation needed] In 2006, she 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.
[10] 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.
[11] Hartley-Brewer also stated in both the original and re-posted tweet that she would "choose Andrew Tate's life *every single time*" over Thunberg's.
[12] This was widely commented on online when, a day after the tweet, Tate was arrested on suspicion of human trafficking, rape, and forming an organised crime group.
[13][14] She has written opinion articles and columns for publications such as The Daily Telegraph,[15] The Mail on Sunday, and The Spectator about politics and current affairs.
[27] In April 2021, Ofcom received over 200 complaints accusing Hartley-Brewer of trivialising racism following a TV appearance in which Hartley-Brewer commented on a family portrait of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip taken in 2018, posing with seven of their great-grandchildren, saying "I wonder if Meghan has managed to take offence to this photograph that doesn't include her son.
[28][needs update] In June 2016, 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.
[31][32] In late 2019, Jolyon Maugham accused Hartley-Brewer of revealing his home address at a time when he was receiving death threats.
"[34] In response, British Office of Communications (Ofcom) received 17,366 complaints about Hartley's conduct during her show, making it the most complained-about United Kingdom program in 2024.
[35] On 14 April 2024, in the wake of the 2024 Bondi Junction stabbings in Sydney, Australia, before the suspect had been identified, Hartley-Brewer tweeted "Another day.