Sherelle Emma Jacobs is a British journalist. She is the Assistant Comment Editor at The Daily Telegraph[1] and has previously written for The Guardian.[2]
Early life and education
Jacobs was born in the London borough of Brent in 1988. Her mother was the daughter of a
Wolverhampton steel worker and her father, who ran a card store, was an immigrant from
Nigeria. Jacobs has said she is "from a family of working-class people whose lives were defined by their flunking of the
11 plus", and that her "white ancestors literally worked themselves to death in coal pits".[3] Jacobs attended
St Paul's Girls' School[4] and read history at the
School of Oriental and African Studies in London.
Career
Jacobs started her career working on the breaking news desk for Deutsche Welle in the German city of
Bonn. Jacobs subsequently 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.[5][6]
She appeared on the panel of the BBC's Question Time in November 2019 and on Any Questions? in May of the same year.[7][8] Jacobs is a
Brexit supporter and has been lauded by The Conservative Woman website as a rising star.[9][10]