Isabel Hardman

Hardman chairing a Policy Exchange debate, September 2014

Isabel Hardman (born 5 May 1986) is an English journalist and blogger. Hardman is assistant editor of The Spectator and editor of the magazine's Coffee House blog.[1] She also writes a weekly column for The Daily Telegraph.[2] She has appeared on television, in programmes such as Question Time, This Week [3] and The Andrew Marr Show. She also presents the BBC Radio 4 programme The Week in Westminster.[4]

She attended St. Catherine's School, Bramley, and Godalming College, before graduating from the University of Exeter with a First in English Literature in 2007.[4][5] Hardman previously worked as a freelance journalist for The Observer.

In September 2014, GQ magazine named her as one of their 100 most connected women in Britain. They said that she has "become the political pundit of choice, delivering highly succinct analysis and holding her own against politicians twice her age."[4]

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