Education
Wheatcroft was educated at Birmingham University (Bachelor of Laws, Law, 1972).
Wheatcroft was educated at Birmingham University (Bachelor of Laws, Law, 1972).
She left this role upon becoming a peer. She previously served as editor of the Sunday Telegraph newspaper. She resigned from this post in September 2007 after eighteen months in the job and temporarily moved out of journalism.
Wheatcroft has worked on several national newspapers including The Daily Mail, The Sunday Times and The Daily Telegraph.
After serving as Deputy City Editor of the Mail on Sunday, Wheatcroft was appointed Business & City Editor of The Times in 1997, and then as editor of the Sunday Telegraph in March 2006. On 4 September 2007 she resigned as editor of The Sunday Telegraph being replaced by Ian MacGregor, who until then had been deputy editor of the Daily Telegraph.
Reports stated that Wheatcroft was under pressure to integrate the Sunday paper"s reporters with the daily newspaper"s 24/7 operation. From 1 January 2008 until 2009, Wheatcroft served as a non-executive director of Barclays PLC
From 27 February 2008 until 2009, Wheatcroft served as a non-executive director of Shaftesbury plc, a United Kingdom Real Estate Investment Trust with assets in central London.
On 8 May 2008 she was appointed head of the newly created Forensic Audit Panel by the incoming Mayor of London, Boris Johnson.
The panel is tasked with monitoring and investigating financial management at the London Development Agency and the Greater London Authority. On 30 July 2010, The Prime Minister appointed her to the board of the British Museum. On 22 December 2010 Wheatcroft was created a life peer as Baroness Wheatcroft, of Blackheath in the London Borough of Greenwich.
She sits in the House of Lords as a Conservative, having been a lifelong supporter of the party.
Wheatcroft is married with three children. Her publisher husband Tony was a Conservative councillor working in the London boroughs of Woolwich and Lewisham.
In October 2014, Wheatcroft became a non-executive board member of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.