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Rachel Younger



Sky News Political Correspondent Rachel Younger is based in London and covers UK-based stories, as well as breaking news stories further afield. 

Rachel spent the 2010 UK General Election following Nick Clegg and reporting on the dramatic ups and downs of his campaign. She was first to reveal, in the early hours after election night, that the Liberal Democrats would be seeking to do a deal with the Conservatives first.

Rachel was previously the channel’s Europe Correspondent, having previously been a Sky News reporter and Channel 4 News’ North of England Correspondent.

While Rachel was Sky’s youngest foreign correspondent, she reported on the death of John Paul II, the British Presidency of Europe, the election of Germany’s first female chancellor and won Broadcasting Journalist of the Year at the London Press Club Awards for her coverage of the Beslan school siege.

Rachel first joined Sky News in 2000. She subsequently covered some of the biggest breaking news stories breaking the news of the verdicts at the Soham Murders and Damilola Taylor trials. She has also provided cover at the Sky News bureaux in Jerusalem and Washington.

Before being appointed by Sky, Rachel reported for GMTV, Meridian, Look East and BBC Essex where she began her broadcasting career in 1996. A Cambridge University graduate in history, Rachel completed a postgraduate diploma in Broadcast Journalism at the University of Central England after spending the winter working as a ski-rep.

Rachel is married with two young children – which means she used to enjoy cycling, surfing and the theatre but has swapped all that temporarily for an encyclopaedic knowledge of the parks of Hertfordshire and Peppa Pig!