Martin Edward Daubney (born 22 June 1970) is a British commentator, journalist and former politician who was the deputy leader of the Reclaim Party from 2021 until August 2022.[1] Daubney was a Brexit Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the West Midlands from 2019 to 2020. He was the longest-serving editor of the men's lifestyle magazine Loaded.
Martin Daubney | |
|---|---|
 Daubney in 2019 | |
| Member of the European Parliament for West Midlands | |
| In office 2 July 2019 – 31 January 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Jill Seymour |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Martin Edward Daubney 22 June 1970 Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England |
| Political party | Reclaim Party (2021-2022) |
| Other political affiliations | Brexit Party (2019) Labour (until 2010) |
| Children | 2 |
| Education | Carlton le Willows School |
| Alma mater | University of Manchester |
Early life
editDaubney was born on 22 June 1970 in Nottingham.[2] He grew up in Gedling, Nottinghamshire. His father was a coal miner and his mother was a teacher. He has one sister.[3][4] He studied geography at the University of Manchester, and was the first man in his family to graduate from university. He graduated with a third class degree.[4]
Magazine and television career
editDaubney's first job in journalism was as a researcher for the women's magazine Bella in 1995.[5] Two years later, he was promoted to commissioning editor. Daubney then became the features editor for the men's lifestyle magazine, FHM in the late 1990s. After this, he was the editor of page3.com for the tabloid newspaper The Sun. He then wrote articles for the sports section of the tabloid newspaper News of the World before becoming the deputy editor of the men's lifestyle magazine Loaded in February 2003. In September that year, he was promoted to editor.[6] In 2007, he organised a straight pride march as he felt that heterosexuality was being "undermined" and becoming "unfashionable".[7][8]
Daubney left Loaded in November 2010, after sales that peaked in the second half of 1998 to an average of 457,318 copies a month, had fallen to just a monthly average of 53,591.[9] He was the longest serving editor of the magazine.[10] After leaving the magazine, he became a "stay-at-home dad", amid reports that he had postnatal depression following the birth of his first child.[4][11]
In 2013, Daubney spent six months making a documentary for Channel 4 on pornography addiction called Porn on the Brain.[12] He supports the men's rights movement.[13]
In October 2023, the media regulator Ofcom ruled that a GB News programme hosted by Daubney breached impartiality and did not give "due weight" to a wide range of views on immigration and asylum policy.[14]
Political career
editDaubney was a Labour Party supporter until the election of Ed Miliband as party leader in 2010. He said that he has also voted for the Liberal Democrats and the Women's Equality Party in the past. He voted for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union in the 2016 membership referendum and supported a no-deal Brexit.[15]
On 25 April 2019, it was announced that Daubney would stand for the Brexit Party in the European Parliament election on 23 May.[8] He was second on his party's list in the West Midlands constituency[16] and was elected as one of its three MEPs there.[17] In the European Parliament, he was a member of the Committee on Regional Development and was part of the delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula.[2]
Daubney was the Brexit Party candidate for Ashfield in the 2019 general election.[18] He finished fourth with 2,501 votes (saving his deposit, with 5.1% of the vote), behind the Conservative, Ashfield Independents and Labour candidates.[19]
In August 2021, Daubney was appointed deputy leader of Laurence Fox's Reclaim Party.[20] Daubney was the party's candidate in the 2021 North Shropshire by-election,[21] finishing seventh with 375 votes (0.98 per cent).[22]
Personal life
editDaubney has a partner, Diana James, and they have two children.[11][23] They met while working together at The Sun.[24]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Marlow, Ben (23 November 2022). "Incredibly, the Tories have squandered another year of Brexit". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
- ^ a b "Martin Edward Daubney". European Parliament. 22 June 1970. Archived from the original on 30 August 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
- ^ "Nottingham man is Loaded's editor". BBC Nottingham. 5 August 2008. Archived from the original on 30 August 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
- ^ a b c Daubney, Martin (13 October 2016). "Are men the new women? How Martin Daubney went from Lads' Mag editor to stay-at-home dad". London Evening Standard. Archived from the original on 31 May 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
- ^ "Martin Daubney: My Life In Media". The Independent. 9 October 2006. Archived from the original on 2 February 2012. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
- Luft, Oliver (1 November 2010). "Martin Daubney: I set fire to writers and blew them up with napalm". Press Gazette. Archived from the original on 30 August 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2019. - ^ Griffiths, Anna (4 September 2003). "Loaded editor promises to resurrect iconic lads' mag". Campaign. Archived from the original on 30 August 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
- Dawley, Heidi (19 March 2004). "Loaded, first laddie, seeks a new youth". Media Life. Archived from the original on 20 September 2012.
- Addicott, Ruth (23 January 2003). "Daubney answers Loaded 'call of wild'". Press Gazette. Archived from the original on 30 August 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2019. - ^ "Loaded editor gets straight to the point". Press Gazette. 16 July 2007. Archived from the original on 30 August 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
- ^ a b Halliday, Josh (25 April 2019). "Brexit party: opera singer and ex-Loaded editor on candidate list". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 6 July 2019. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
- ^ Luft, Oliver (3 September 2010). "Loaded editor Martin Daubney leaves amid sale talks". New Statesman. Archived from the original on 24 July 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
- Plunkett, John (2 September 2010). "Loaded editor steps down". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 30 August 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2019. - ^ "Martin Daubney". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 23 April 2019. Retrieved 25 August 2019.
- ^ a b Daubney, Martin (8 May 2017). "Why we need to talk about postnatal depression in men". BBC Three. Archived from the original on 30 August 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
- ^ Chambers, Chris (30 September 2013). "Porn on the Brain – TV review". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 30 August 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
- Daubney, Martin (26 November 2015). "Here's how to talk to young men about porn". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 30 August 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2019. - ^ Waters, Lowenna (26 April 2019). "Brexit Party candidate 'sick and tired' of Leave voters being branded 'racist' and 'homophobic'". The Independent. Archived from the original on 30 August 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
- ^ Iorizzo, Ellie (23 October 2023). "GB News show hosted by stand-in presenter Martin Daubney breached impartiality, Ofcom finds". Evening Standard. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
- ^ Anthony, Andrew (27 April 2019). "He shot radioactive wolves, dropped acid – and now he backs Nigel Farage". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 18 August 2019. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
- ^ "2019 European elections: List of candidates for the West Midlands". BBC News. 28 April 2019. Archived from the original on 11 June 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
- ^ "European election 2019: Brexit Party tops West Midlands polls". BBC News. 27 May 2019. Archived from the original on 24 June 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
- ^ Sandeman, Kit (21 October 2019). "Labour names general election candidate for Ashfield after Gloria De Pierro stands down". Nottingham Post.
- ^ "Ashfield". BBC News. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
- ^ "Martin Daubney appointed Deputy Leader of The Reclaim Party". Reclaim Party. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- Daubney, Martin [@MartinDaubney] (9 August 2021). "Mightily chuffed to be announced as Deputy Leader of @thereclaimparty reporting to @LozzaFox There's much to do. And it starts today. Cheers all" (Tweet). Retrieved 9 August 2021 – via Twitter. - ^ "North Shropshire by-election 2021: The candidates standing". BBC News. 19 November 2021. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ "North Shropshire parliamentary by-election: The result". www.shropshire.gov.uk. Shropshire Council. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ "Would You Let Your Husband Take Out Another Woman to Dinner?". This Morning (YouTube). 4 April 2017. Retrieved 10 September 2022.
- "Couples dreading Christmas". ITV. 17 December 2014. Archived from the original on 30 August 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2019. - ^ Turner, Janice (22 October 2005). "Dirty young men". The Guardian. London.
- White, Roland (26 May 2013). "Tabloid week". The Times. Archived from the original on 30 August 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2019.