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Sophie Walker

Sophie Walker
WE Central Office and Sophie Walker (cropped).jpg
at the central WE office
Leader of the Women's Equality Party
Assumed office
22 July 2015
Preceded by Sandi Toksvig (co-founder)
Catherine Mayer (co-founder)
Personal details
Born (1971-05-27) 27 May 1971 (age 46)
Blackpool, Lancashire
Nationality British
Political party Women's Equality Party
Spouse(s) Chris Naylor
Alma mater Reading University
Occupation Politician
Website Women's Equality Party
External video
Press Association interview
with Sophie Walker
"Sandi Toksvig's Women's Equality Party name Sophie Walker as leader" via YouTube
External video
Press Association interview
with Sophie Walker
"Sandi Toksvig's Women's Equality Party name Sophie Walker as leader" via YouTube

Sophie Walker (born 27 May 1971) is the leader of the Women's Equality Party (WE) in the United Kingdom.

She was appointed as inaugural leader by the steering committee and was the unanimous choice; from 2017 the leadership will be decided by elections. Walker was also the party candidate in the 2016 London mayoral election.

Walker was born on 27 May 1971, the daughter of Lesley and David Walker. She was born in Blackpool, in England, but grew up in Glasgow, in Scotland.

She was educated at Broomhill Primary School and Hyndland Secondary School, in Glasgow. Her university education was in England, studying French and English at Reading University. The course included a year out, in France: this time was spent in Montpellier. Walker then took a postgraduate diploma in newspaper journalism at City University, in London.

Walker's early career was in journalism, working as a reporter and as an editor at the Reuters news agency. She covered the fields of finance, business and trade, plus politics. She reported from London, Paris and Washington and from Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

As party leader, Walker launched the policy manifesto of the Women's Equality Party (WE) at Conway Hall, 20 October 2015. Walker had previously told BBC Radio Wales Sunday Supplement programme that the party would be taking a non-partisan approach to elections, "We will be undertaking consultations with our members and deciding which seats to target." Walker is standing in the 2017 general election in Shipley, against the sitting Conservative MP Philip Davies, an anti-political correctness and men's rights campaigner.


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