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4. Isabel Oakeshott: Who is the journalist behind Matt Hancock Covid messages leak?

Tue Mar 14, 2023, 04:23 PM

Mar 2023

...In 2015, she co-wrote a biography of David Cameron, Call Me Dave, which included the eye-catching but unsubstantiated claim that the then prime minister had taken part in a lurid initiation ceremony involving a dead pig's head while at university.

She got another politician in trouble when in 2011 she revealed that Liberal Democrat minister Chris Huhne had persuaded his wife Vicky Pryce to take his speeding points.

Mr Huhne was subsequently jailed for eight months for perverting the course of justice (LB: and so was Pryce - that's what you get for trusting Oakeshott!)....

In 2019, the UK's ambassador to the United States Sir Kim Darroch was forced to resign after Ms Oakeshott obtained emails in which he was critical of Donald Trump...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64821983

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Matt Hancock and Isabel Oakeshott: A tale of scoops, betrayal and WhatsApp [View all] T_i_B Mar 2023 OP

And then Oakeshott was asked why she didn't use her Times employer for the 'scoop' muriel_volestrangler Mar 2023 #1

One of the nastiest people in the country backstabbing one of the nastiest people in the country LeftishBrit Mar 2023 #2

Ooh, my MP caught: Steve Brine: Tory MP faces calls for probe into lobbying claims muriel_volestrangler Mar 2023 #3

Isabel Oakeshott: Who is the journalist behind Matt Hancock Covid messages leak? LeftishBrit Mar 2023 #4

And now Hancock's been caught being stupid yet again T_i_B Mar 2023 #5

Hancock and Kwarteng: two idiots LeftishBrit Mar 2023 #6