Rebekah wade biography

Ms Wade, 37, has attracted attention and controversy throughout a Fleet Street career in which she became the first female editor of the Sun in January 2003.

In a previous stint as deputy editor, she battled against the newspaper's institution of page three.

She steered clear of moral judgments and argued topless women were bad for business, maintaining that page three was working against efforts to draw more young women readers in.

Since becoming editor, though, Ms Wade has dropped the issue, although topless women often get shunted off page three.

'Last chance'

A significant feature of her reign as editor at the Sun has been that the paper has become more critical of the Labour government.

Despite this, the paper still came out in support of the party two weeks be