Isabel Oakeshott was born on 12 June 1974 and is a British political journalist.
17 Facts About Isabel Oakeshott
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Isabel Oakeshott was educated at St George's School, Edinburgh, and then at Gordonstoun School in Moray, Scotland.
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Isabel Oakeshott began her career in journalism in Scotland, working for the East Lothian Courier, Edinburgh Evening News, Daily Record, Sunday Mirror and Daily Mail, before returning to London and joining the Evening Standard as the Health correspondent.
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Isabel Oakeshott was awarded the title Political Journalist of the Year at the 2011 The Press Awards.
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Isabel Oakeshott has appeared as a panelist on the BBC's Daily Politics, as well as on BBC TV's Question Time, and has been a contributor to Sky News' Press Preview programme.
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Between February 2016 and early 2017, Isabel Oakeshott was the Daily Mails political editor-at-large.
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In July 2019, The Guardian amended an article by its parliamentary sketch writer John Crace which contained a sentence that had potentially implied that Isabel Oakeshott obtained the Darroch emails by sleeping with Nigel Farage or Arron Banks.
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In September 2021, GB News announced that Isabel Oakeshott would be hosting a weekly show on the channel.
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Isabel Oakeshott left to join TalkTV as its International Editor in April 2022.
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The unsubstantiated story was dependent on hearsay, and Isabel Oakeshott subsequently conceded her source could have been "deranged".
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Isabel Oakeshott was in possession of details about Russia's cultivation and handling of Banks, that he was in regular contact with Russian officials from 2015 to 2017, but publicly downplayed Russian involvement with him.
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Isabel Oakeshott helped former Health Secretary Matt Hancock write his book, Pandemic Diaries, The Inside Story Of Britain's Battle Against Covid.
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Isabel Oakeshott then passed more than 100,000 of Hancock's WhatsApp messages to The Daily Telegraph, who began to publish them in February 2023 in a series called the Lockdown Files.
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Isabel Oakeshott had been given the messages for the purpose of using them to help write Hancock's book and she was subject to a contractual confidentiality restriction.
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Isabel Oakeshott said that leaking the messages was in the public interest.
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In January 2025 Isabel Oakeshott confirmed she had moved to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates with her children several months earlier to avoid the Labour government's new taxes on school fees.
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Isabel Oakeshott is a supporter of Brexit, and has close links to the Conservative Party donor Michael Ashcroft.