| Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
| Jackie Ashley | |
| Birth Name: | Jacqueline Ashley |
| Birth Date: | 10 September 1954 |
| Birth Place: | London, England |
| Education: | St Anne's College, Oxford |
| Occupation: | Journalist |
| Children: | 3 |
| Parents: | Jack Ashley Pauline Crispin |
| Office: | President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge |
| Term Start: | October 2015 |
| Term End: | 2018 |
| Successor: | Madeleine Atkins |
Jacqueline Ashley (born 10 September 1954) is an English journalist and broadcaster.[1] [2]
Ashley was born in St Pancras, London.[3] She is the daughter of Pauline Kay and Jack Ashley, Baron Ashley of Stoke, a Labour MP and life peer.
She was educated at Rosebery Grammar School for Girls, a grammar school in Epsom, Surrey. She went on to study Philosophy, Politics and Economics at St Anne's College, Oxford. She was a member of the Oxford University Broadcasting Society.
She has been a television news reporter and newspaper journalist, writing for the New Statesman and The Guardian.[4] She specialises in the Labour Party, the media, politics, public services, trade unions and women's issues. She was broadly a supporter of Gordon Brown's government.
Having graduated from university, she spent two years, from 1979–81, as a trainee with the BBC. She was a producer and newsreader on Newsnight from 1981–84. Then, from 1984–86, she was a reporter on TV-am, and a producer and reporter on Channel 4. She moved to ITN in 1986, where she was a political correspondent. She then moved from television to print media, and was political editor of the New Statesman from 2000 to 2002. Since 2002, she has been a columnist and political interviewer for The Guardian.
From October 2015 to October 2018, Ashley was President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge.[5] [6] She has been a trustee of the Carers Trust since July 2019.[7] [8]
Jackie Ashley married fellow journalist Andrew Marr in Surrey in August 1987; they live in Primrose Hill, North London. The couple have a son and two daughters.[9]