Isabel Oakeshott

Isabel Oakeshott (born 12 June 1974) is a right-wing British political journalist.

Oakeshott is a former political editor of The Sunday Times and is the co-author, with Michael Ashcroft, of an unauthorised biography of former British prime minister David Cameron, Call Me Dave, and of other non-fiction titles.

Quotes

• Now we sat in silence over the prawns and cheese, listening to them arguing. She was telling him The Sunday Times was investigating a tip that he had dodged a driving ban for speeding by pretending she had been at the wheel. He was telling her to keep her mouth shut.
  The recording finished and she switched off the machine, looking up expectantly.
  • "A broken woman", The Sunday Times (10 March 2013).
  • Oakeshott's source, the economist Vicky Pryce, and her estranged husband Chris Huhne, a Cabinet Minister in the David Cameron–Nick Clegg coalition government, were convicted of perverting the course of justice in March 2013.

• As the owner of a little place on the Isle of Wight, I should declare an interest. Some 80 per cent of properties in my seaside village are second homes, making it difficult for local shops to survive the winter.
  • "Michael Gove's hypocritical war on second homes will backfire", The Telegraph (31 July 2023)