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Sophy Ridge

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Sophy Ridge is Sky’s lead politics presenter, fronting Politics Hub with Sophy Ridge. She was previously the first woman to present a Sunday morning political show – anchoring Sophy Ridge on Sunday from 2017 to 2023. She has interviewed Prime Ministers past and present, including Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss, Boris Johnson, Theresa May, David Cameron, Gordon Brown and Tony Blair.

Before presenting, she was senior political correspondent, and before joining Sky News in 2011 she worked for the News of the World focusing on political, business and consumer stories.

In 2017 Sophy published THE WOMEN WHO SHAPED POLITICS, a book on the history of women in Westminster.