Introduction
Sherelle Emma Jacobs is a British journalist. She is the Assistant Comment Editor at The Daily Telegraph and has previously written for The Guardian.
Career
She appeared on the panel of the BBC's Question Time on 21 November 2019 as the only non-politician on the panel.She has also been heard on Any Questions? Jacobs is a Brexit supporter and has been lauded by The Conservative Woman website as a rising star. Jacobs is sceptical towards elements within the environmental movements claims of a climate emergency, while still believing climate change is an existential problem.
Personal life
Jacobs attended St Paul's Girls' School and read history at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London before going into a career in journalism. After working on the breaking news desk for Deutsche Welle in the German city of Bonn, Jacobs worked in Tunisia as a freelance journalist.While in Tunis, her journalistic interest was focused on the Arab Spring, its problems and the rise of Islamist extremism in the Maghreb.