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Brexit Party chief's lover behind story that forced US ambassador Darroch to quit

EXCLUSIVE: Former Sunday Times political editor and unofficial David Cameron biographer Isabel Oakeshott revealed Sir Kim Darroch's emails criticising Donald Trump
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/brexit-party-richard-tice-darroch-18206347

I spent several days mulling over what to do before contacting Isabel Oakeshott, a highly experienced journalist with whom I have worked.

We developed the story together before providing it to The Mail on Sunday. Given the possible controversy, we decided to leave my name out of it.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7268519/STEVEN-EDGINTON-19-journalist-exposed-memos-UKs-man-Washington.html

Isabel Oakeshott
Corrections and clarifications column editor

Fri 19 Jul 2019 20.50 BST
• A satirical sketch originally included a comment – fictitious, of course – that could have been interpreted as being of a sexual and vulgar nature about Isabel Oakeshott. Although this was not our intention, we acknowledge the potential for distress and misinterpretation and we apologise to her for any distress this has caused (Ambassador’s trashing of Trump gives MPs chance to enjoy a bit of deploring, 8 July, theguardian.com; MPs get to exercise their moral outrage, happy to do some serious deploring, 9 July, page 15).https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/08/ambassadors-trashing-of-trump-gives-mps-chance-to-enjoy-a-bit-of-deploring

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/jul/19/corrections-and-clarifications