Sophy Ridge

Education

She was educated at Tiffin Girls School and Street Edmund Hall, Oxford, where she read English Literature.

Career

She has written about reading English at Street Edmund Hall on the Oxford University website. After her graduation, Ridge was a trainee at the News of the World newspaper. At this stage, she mainly covered showbiz stories and occasional political stories.

Subsequently, she gained a job as a journalist on Sky News in 2011 replacing Niall Paterson.

In an interview in the Daily Express in May 2015, Ridge commented: "As a political journalist, this is what we have been building up to for the last five years. The General Election is like our World Cup.

lieutenant has meant working weekends and not getting many days off, but I am happy to give up my life for a bit. I will be in Doncaster on election night.

After most elections, everyone just wants to lie in a darkened room and recover for a while but this time around the post-election period could be the busiest time.

I was keen to do Labour because I think the big story is Editor Miliband and whether he is going to succeed or fail in challenging David Cameron.".

Achievements

• Ridge has won several journalism awards, including the MHP 30 Under 30 Gold Award, the Headline Money rising star award, top-rated female political blogger in the Total Politics Blog Awards 2011 with her Waste Watch blogging website and was short-listed as Young Journalist of the Year in the Royal Television Society Awards in 2013.

Politics

During her time there she covered a broad range of political stories and has travelled with the Prime Minister to Afghanistan, New York and Brazil. She was based in Colorado for the channel"s coverage of the United States elections and is known for her round the clock broadcasting at the annual party conferences. She is currently a Sky News Political correspondent based at Westminster, her biggest and most important role came in 2015 as she played a key role in helping with the 2015 general election coverage for the Sky, reporting on Labour Party"s campaign and conducting interviews with party members, she also contributed news articles to the Sky News website.

I know it makes me sound like some kind of strange political geek, but I am really excited to work this election, which is my first as a broadcast journalist. This time around I have been following Labour Party, so I have basically gone wherever the party has gone, following Miliband around.