Soubry was a journalist from 1981 until 1995. She reported on and presented several regional and networked TV programmes, including Central Television's "Central Weekend", Grampian Television's "North Tonight" in the North of Scotland and the East Midlands regional news programme, "Central News East". She also presented and reported Granada Television's "This Morning" in the late 1980s, and returned to Liverpool's Albert Dock in October 2013 for the "This Morning" 25th-anniversary party. Soubry was called to the bar in 1995, and is a member of the Criminal Bar Association.