Isabel Oakeshott Biography
Isabel Oakeshott is a British right-wing political journalist who worked as a political editor of The Sunday Times, co-authored Call Me Dave, an unauthorised biography of former British Prime Minister David Cameron, as well as several non-fiction books, including White Flag? An Examination of the UK’s Defence Capability, Farmageddon, and Pandemic Diaries, which chronicles Matt Hancock’s time as UK Health Secretary during the COVID-19 pandemic.
How old is Isabel Oakeshott? – Age
She is 49 years old as of 12 June 2023. She was born in 1974 in Westminster, London, England, UK.
Isabel Oakeshott Family – Education
Oakeshott attended St George’s School in Edinburgh and Gordonstoun School in Moray, Scotland, before graduating from the University of Bristol in 1996 with a BA in history.
Isabel Oakeshott Husband
Oakeshott married Nigel Rosser, and they had three children. In 2018, she began a relationship with Richard Tice, a businessman and potential Reform UK leader.
Isabel Oakeshott Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $5 million.
Isabel Oakeshott Brexit
The Bad Boys of Brexit is an insider’s account of the Leave.EU campaign leading up to the Brexit referendum, which she ghostwrote for UKIP donor and Leave.Arron Banks, an EU funder. Oakeshott supports Brexit. She had information regarding Russia’s cultivation and handling of Banks, and he was in constant touch with Russian authorities from 2015 to 2017, but he publicly downplayed Russian involvement with him.
Isabel Oakeshott The Sunday Times
She joined The Sunday Times as deputy political editor in 2006, promoted to political editor in 2010, and remained there till 2014. She received the title “Political Journalist of the Year” at the 2011 The Press Awards.
While working at The Sunday Times in 2013, she persuaded Vicky Pryce to accuse her estranged husband, former Liberal Democrat MP and Cabinet minister Chris Huhne, of perverting the course of justice, which resulted in the case R v Huhne, in which both Pryce and Huhne were convicted and sentenced to prison.
Isabel Oakeshott Career
Oakeshott is known as a right-wing journalist. Oakeshott began her journalism career in Scotland, where she worked for the East Lothian Courier, Edinburgh Evening News, Daily Record, Sunday Mirror, and Daily Mail before moving to London and becoming the Evening Standard’s Health reporter. Oakeshott has featured as a panelist on BBC’s Daily Politics, Question Time, and Sky News’ Press Preview.
From February 2016 to early 2017, Oakeshott was the Daily Mail’s political editor-at-large. In 2019, she wrote a series of pieces for The Mail on Sunday based on leaked diplomatic memos from the British Ambassador to the United States, Sir Kim Darroch, in which he criticized the Trump administration. The leak prompted his resignation.
In July 2019, The Guardian edited a piece by their parliamentary sketch writer John Crace, which featured a statement that could have inferred that Oakeshott received the Darroch emails by sleeping with Nigel Farage or Aron Banks. At the time, she described the comment as “demonstrably false and extraordinarily sexist”. The publication later issued an apology.
In September 2021, GB News announced that she would be hosting a weekly show on the channel. She left to join TalkTV as its International Editor in April 2022. She earns a £250,000 salary for the role. Her prominence in these roles lead to the New Statesman naming her as the 32nd most influential Right Wing political figure in the UK.
Isabel Oakeshott Books
Oakeshott has written several non-fiction works. Inside Out, co-written or ghostwritten for Labour Party insider Peter Watt, provides an inside look at New Labour. Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat, co-authored with Philip Lymbery, examines the consequences of industrial-scale meat production.
Call Me Dave, written with Michael Ashcroft, is an unofficial biography of former British Prime Minister David Cameron. One of the book’s claims, that Cameron supposedly committed a sex act involving a dead pig while in university, sparked outrage upon its publication. The unverified story was based on hearsay, and Oakeshott later admitted her source could have been “deranged”.
In 2018, she and Ashcroft co-authored White Flag?, a book about the state of the British Armed Forces. Oakeshott assisted former Health Secretary Matt Hancock in writing his book Pandemic Diaries: The Inside Story of Britain’s Battle Against Covid.
Oakeshott subsequently forwarded over 100,000 of Hancock’s WhatsApp communications to The Daily Telegraph, which began publishing them in February 2023 as part of a series known as the Lockdown Files. She had been handed the messages with the intention of using them to assist write Hancock’s book, and she was bound by a contractual confidentiality clause. The files revealed details about the health and public order decisions made during the COVID-19 lockdown, as well as various political figures and civil servants such as Hancock, then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the UK’s most senior civil servant, Cabinet Secretary Simon Case, Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty, and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak.