Education
Walker attended North Walsham Girls" High School in Norfolk, attached to the all-male Paston College. She subsequently studied journalism at the London College of Printing.
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At the British Broadcasting Corporation, Walker often fronts major events such as British general elections. She has worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation for 30 years. As a war correspondent she covered the fall of the Soviet Union, the Gulf War and the civil wars in Somalia and the Balkans.
Since 1997 she has concentrated on covering United Kingdom politics and in September 2012 presented the British Broadcasting Corporation Two daily political programme Daily Politics.
In April 2011, when Walker was 50, she openly criticised the then British Broadcasting Corporation Director General Mark Thompson for failing to curb the corporation"s alleged "ageist" attitude towards women. In the British Broadcasting Corporation internal house-magazine, Ariel, Walker asserted that Thompson had broken his pledge of giving her more presenting shifts.
Walker has two children.
