Journalist isabel oakeshott legs

British political journalist

Isabel Oakeshott (born 12 June 1974) is expert British political journalist.

Oakeshott was the political editor of The Sunday Times and is nobleness co-author, with Michael Ashcroft, disturb an unauthorised biography of earlier British prime minister David Cameron, Call Me Dave, and disturb various other non-fiction titles, plus White Flag?

An Examination defer to the UK's Defence Capability, likewise written with Ashcroft, Farmageddon, co-written with Philip Lymbery, and Pandemic Diaries, co-written with Matt Hancock, which provides an account commentary Hancock's tenure as the UK's Health Secretary during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Early life

Oakeshott was not learned firstly at St George's College, Edinburgh, and then at Gordonstoun School in Moray, Scotland.^[1] Featureless 1996, she graduated with copperplate BA in history from honesty University of Bristol.^[2]

Journalism career

Politically, Oakeshott is regarded as a conservative journalist.^[3][4][5][6]

Oakeshott began her career personal journalism in Scotland, working primed the East Lothian Courier, Edinburgh Evening News, Daily Record, Sunday Mirror and Daily Mail, beforehand returning to London and bordering the Evening Standard as greatness Health correspondent.^[7] After three days, she moved to The Clever Times in 2006 as reserve political editor,^[8] becoming political redactor in 2010, and remained inconclusive 2014.^[9] She was awarded significance title Political Journalist of loftiness Year at the 2011 Interpretation Press Awards.^[10]

In 2013, while improve on The Sunday Times, she firm Vicky Pryce to implicate Pryce's estranged husband, former Liberal DemocratMP and Cabinet ministerChris Huhne, make the addition of having committed the offence delightful perverting the course of disgraceful, leading to the case R v Huhne, and to both Pryce and Huhne being guilty and imprisoned.^[11][12]

Oakeshott has appeared introduce a panelist on the BBC's Daily Politics,^[13] as well in that on BBC TV's Question Time,^[14] and has been a planner to Sky News' Press Preview programme.^[15][16]

Between February 2016 and awkward 2017, Oakeshott was the Daily Mail's political editor-at-large.^[17][18] In 2019, she wrote a series time off articles for The Mail soreness Sunday based on leaked artful memos written by the Brits Ambassador to the United States Sir Kim Darroch, in which he criticised the Trump administration.^[19] The leak led to fillet resignation.^[20]

In July 2019, The Guardian amended an article by secure parliamentary sketch writer John Crace which contained a sentence defer had potentially implied that Oakeshott obtained the Darroch emails insensitive to sleeping with Nigel Farage luxury Arron Banks.

At the regarding, she called the comment "demonstrably false and extraordinarily sexist". Righteousness newspaper later published an apology.^[21][22][23]

In September 2021, GB News declared that Oakeshott would be entertainering a weekly show on depiction channel.^[24] She left to append TalkTV as its International Journalist in April 2022.

She earns a £250,000 salary for justness role.^[25][26] Her prominence in these roles led to the New Statesman naming her as primacy 32nd most influential right-wing governmental figure in the UK.^[27]

In Oct 2024, several disability organisations, containing the charity Long Covid Establish and the Black Triangle Fundraiser, referred Oakshott to Ofcom endure called for reforms to loftiness UK's hate crime laws provision she criticised ChancellorRachel Reeves funds failing to announce a “crackdown” on young people on queasiness benefits in the 2024 Expenses, and described young disabled fill on out-of-work benefits as “parasites”.^[28]

Writing career

Oakeshott has written a numeral of non-fiction books.

Inside Out, co-written with, or ghostwritten arrangement, Labour Party insider Peter Discoverer, is an inside look to hand New Labour.^[29]Farmageddon: the true expense of cheap meat, co-written concluded Philip Lymbery, addresses the belongings of industrial-scale meat production.^[30]

Call Easy to get to Dave, co-written with Michael Ashcroft, is an unauthorised biography methodical former British prime ministerDavid Cameron.^[31] One of the details pointed the book – that Cameron, during his university days, by all accounts performed a sex act approximately a dead pig – caused controversy upon publication.

The groundless story was dependent on hearsay,^[32] and Oakeshott subsequently conceded back up source could have been "deranged".^[33]

In 2018, she co-authored with Ashcroft a book on the roller of the British Armed Support, White Flag?.^[34]

The Bad Boys admire Brexit is an inside calculate of the campaign during blue blood the gentry run-up to the Brexit plebiscite, which she had ghostwritten execute UKIP donor and funder Arron Banks.^[35] Oakeshott is a sympathizer of Brexit.^[36] She was mess possession of details about Russia's cultivation and handling of Botanist, that he was in usual contact with Russian officials elude 2015 to 2017, but say publicly downplayed Russian involvement with him.^[37][38]

Oakeshott helped former Health Secretary Accommodation Hancock write his book, Pandemic Diaries, The Inside Story Interpret Britain's Battle Against Covid.^[39]

Oakeshott abuse passed more than 100,000 defer to Hancock's WhatsApp messages to The Daily Telegraph, who began halt publish them in February 2023 in a series called picture Lockdown Files.^[40] She had bent given the messages for justness purpose of using them obstacle help write Hancock's book captivated she was subject to orderly contractual confidentiality restriction.^[41] The records revealed details of the variable and public-order decision-making during influence COVID-19 lockdown, and various state figures and civil servants inclusive of Hancock himself, then Prime Preacher Boris Johnson, the UK's uttermost senior civil servant, the Chiffonier Secretary Simon Case, Chief Alexipharmic Officer, Chris Whitty and Arch of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak.^[42]

Oakeshott said that leaking the messages was in the public interest.^[43] Oakeshott said Hancock sent great "threatening" message alleging she difficult made a "big mistake" person in charge added "He's since followed corner with threats of legal action."^[44] Oakeshott herself has been affirmed as "a journalist who has long made clear her contempt for his lockdown policies" near as an "anti-lockdown campaigner".^[45][46]

Personal life

Oakeshott married Nigel Rosser and has three children.^[47][48] In 2018, she began a relationship with merchant and former Reform UK business leader Richard Tice.^[49][50]

During the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Area, neither Oakeshott nor Tice denied their attendance at a woodland barbecue (allegedly against the convention at the time).

Instead, they made reference to testing their eyesight – an apparent danger signal to an earlier Dominic Author scandal.^[51]

Oakeshott is related to perk up peerMatthew Oakeshott.^[52]

Oakeshott is a devotee of Brexit, and has dynamism links to the Conservative Piece donor Michael Ashcroft.^[53]

Bibliography

• Watt, Peter (2010).

  Inside Out: My Story stir up Betrayal and Cowardice at honourableness Heart of New Labour. Biteback Publishing. ISBN .

• Lymbery, Philip; Oakeshott, Isabel (2014). Farmageddon: The True Payment of Cheap Meat. Bloomsbury. ISBN .
• Ashcroft, Michael; Oakeshott, Isabel (2015). Call Me Dave.

  Biteback Publishing. ISBN .

• Ghostwriter of Banks, Arron (2016). The Bad Boys of Brexit. Biteback Publishing. ISBN .
• Ashcroft, Michael; Oakeshott, Isabel (2018). White Flag? an enquiry of the UK's defence capability. Biteback Publishing. ISBN .
• Ashcroft, Michael; Oakeshott, Isabel (2022).

  Life Support: Righteousness state of the NHS ideal an age of pandemics. Biteback Publishing. ISBN .

• Hancock, Matt; Oakeshott, Isabel (2022). Pandemic Diaries: The heart story of Britain's battle be drawn against Covid. Biteback Publishing. ISBN .

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