Julia Langdon

Julia Mary Langdon (born July 1946) is a British journalist and writer.

[1] Leaving The Guardian in 1984, she was appointed political editor of the Daily Mirror, the first woman to hold the position on a national newspaper in the UK.

[4] Langdon has been a freelance writer since 1992, and has written a biography of the Labour politician Mo Mowlam (2000) and is writing a biography of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

She presented a programme on BBC Radio 4 about the recruitment of female spies, which featured an interview with Eliza Manningham-Buller former head of The Security Service.

In the programme Langdon revealed that she had been approached at school to work for the secret services.