Who is Isabel Oakeshott, the journalist who broke an NDA to leak Matt Hancock's WhatsApps?

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Who is Isabel Oakeshott, the journalist who broke an NDA to leak Matt Hancock's WhatsApps?
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Isabel Oakeshott has admitted she didn't tell Matt Hancock she was going to leak 100,000 of his WhatsApp messages before sharing them with the Daily Telegraph

Isabel Oakeshott has admitted she didn't tell Matt Hancock she was going to leak 100,000 of his WhatsApp messages before sharing them with the Daily Telegraph.from exchanges the former health secretary and his colleagues had about COVID policy at the height of the pandemic.she signed that promised she would only use the messages on background to ghost write Mr Hancock's book, Pandemic Diaries.

She attended fee-paying schools St George's in Edinburgh and Gordonstoun in Moray - where both King Charles and his father the Duke of Edinburgh went. She has three children and was previously married to the American Nigel Rosser. She has since been in a long-term relationship with Richard Tice, the leader of Reform UK, formerly known as the Brexit Party.Following the publication of The Lockdown Files in The Telegraph, Mr Hancock accused Ms Oakeshott of aBut many of his former Tory colleagues have questioned his decision to entrust her with the archive - even with legal protection.

The book, Call Me Dave, failed to have major success and was largely remembered for the claim Mr Cameron engaged in a sex act with a dead pig while at Oxford University. As an ardent Brexiteer, in 2016 she helped write Arron Banks's book The Bad Boys of Brexit on his account of the EU referendum.Hancock rejects COVID test claims

After Mr Hancock's lockdown-breaking affair with aide Gina Coladangelo forced him to resign, Ms Oakeshott worked with him on his memoir for a year.Matt Hancock and Isabel Oakeshott. Pic: Parsons Media

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