Jo Anne Nadler

Career

After graduating from University of York with a degree in History and Politics Nadler took a job at BBC Radio One as a producer having been offered the position while still an undergraduate. She produced The Radio 1 Chart Show but in 1992 she took a post at Conservative Central Office as a senior press officer in the run up to that year's general election. She had been a Young Conservative in her formative years with an ambition to enter politics, and saw the job as being more in line with that.

She returned to the BBC a year later to work as a political producer; initially this was at a regional level, but eventually she was offered a post with the broadcaster's Sunday lunchtime political programme On the Record, where she was both producer and reporter. Nadler became a freelance journalist following the Conservatives' landslide defeat at the 1997 general election. When the party subsequently elected William Hague as its leader later that year she undertook to write an unofficial biography of the man. The book was published in 2000.

Nadler is now a political commentator and author who makes regular appearances on radio and television, as well as writing for various newspapers and magazines. She has appeared on programmes as diverse as BBC One's Question Time, Channel 5's The Wright Stuff and BBC Radio 4's Any Questions. Written contributions include articles for The Guardian, The Scotsman and The Spectator.

On 6 May 2010 Nadler was elected to Wandsworth Borough Council as a representative of the Conservative Party.

Personal life

Nadler was a member of the Young Conservatives as a teenager during the early 1980s, and has spoken about how friends found it difficult to understand her political affiliation. She has described herself as a "Trendy Tory". In 2005 her partner, Darren Caplan, an official at Tory Central Office stood against Labour's Diane Abbott in the Hackney North constituency at the that year's general election.