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Full Name Isabel Euphemia Oakeshott Website www.isabeloakeshott.com Books Call Me Dave, Farmageddon, Inside Out: My Story of Betrayal Similar Profiles | ||
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Isabel Euphemia Oakeshott (born 12 June 1974 in Westminster, London) is an English political journalist and broadcaster. She is the co-author, with Michael Ashcroft, of an unauthorised biography of the British prime minister David Cameron, Call Me Dave and various other non fiction titles, including Farmageddon, co-authored with Philip Lymbery, and The Bad Boys of Brexit, ghostwritten for major UKIP donor Arron Banks.
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Biography
The third cousin of Matthew Oakeshott, Baron Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay, she was educated at Gordonstoun before obtaining a BA in History from the University of Bristol in 1996. She is a former political editor of The Sunday Times, having previously worked for the East Lothian Courier, Edinburgh Evening News, Daily Record, the Sunday Mirror, the Daily Mail, and the London Evening Standard. She is a regular panellist on BBC television's Daily Politics and Sunday Politics.
While at The Sunday Times she persuaded Vicky Pryce to implicate her estranged husband, former Liberal Democrat MP and Coalition Cabinet minister Chris Huhne, and thus Pryce herself, as having perverted the course of justice, leading to the case R v Huhne and to both Pryce and Huhne being jailed.
She was awarded the title 'Political Journalist of the Year' at the 2011 British Press Awards.
As of January 2017, she is employed as the political editor-at-large at the Daily Mail and is co-authoring a book on the state of the armed forces with Michael Ashcroft.
Personal life
She is married with three children, and has presented radio programmes in which she spoke about contemplating having children via a surrogate mother.
