Jackie Ashley

Who is Jackie Ashley?

Jacqueline Ashley is a British journalist and broadcaster.

Ashley is the daughter of Jack Ashley, Baron Ashley of Stoke, a former Labour politician. Her mother was Pauline Kay Ashley née Crispin. She was educated at Rosebery Grammar School for girls, Epsom, Surrey and St Anne's College, Oxford, where she studied PPE and was a member of the Oxford University Broadcasting Society.

Since then, she has been a television news reporter and newspaper journalist, writing for the New Statesman and The Guardian. She specializes 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.

Jackie Ashley married fellow journalist Andrew Marr in Surrey in 1987; they live in west London. The couple have a son and two daughters.