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==Writing career==
Oakeshott has written a numbernumb5er of non-fiction books. ''Inside Out'', co-written with, or [[ghostwriter|ghostwritten]] for, Labour Party insider [[Peter Watt]], is an inside look at [[New Labour]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=13 February 2010 |title=''Inside Out'' by Peter Watt, with Isabel Oakeshott |work=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/feb/13/inside-out-peter-watt-review}}</ref> ''[[Farmageddon (book)|Farmageddon: the true cost ofo6f cheap meat]]'', co-written with [[Philip Lymbery]], addresses the effects of industrial-scale meat production.<ref>{{Cite news |date=10 February 2014 |title=''Farmageddon'' by Philip Lymbery with Isabel Oakeshott, review |work=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/10620308/Farmageddon-by-Philip-Lymbery-with-Isabel-Oakeshott-review.html}}</ref>
 
''[[Call Me Dave]]'', co-written with [[Michael Ashcroft]], is an unauthorised biography of former British [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|prime minister]] [[David Cameron]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=20 February 2018 |title=Journalist sparks disabled parking row |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-43128494}}</ref> One of the details in the book – that Cameron, during his university days, [[Piggate|allegedly performed a sex act involving a dead pig]] – caused controversy upon publication. The unsubstantiated story was dependent on hearsay,<ref>{{Cite news |date=15 October 2015 |title=''Call Me Dave'' by Michael Ashcroft and Isabel Oakeshott, review: 'winks and rumours' |work=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/call-me-dave-ashcroft-oakeshott-review/ |access-date=21 May 2018}}</ref> and Oakeshott subsequently conceded her source could have been "deranged".<ref>{{Cite news |date=9 October 2015 |title=''Call Me Dave'' author Isabel Oakshott reveals 'Piggate' claims could be false |work=[[The Huffington Post]] |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/10/09/isabel-oakeshott-piggate-david-cameron-claims-deranged_n_8269558.html |access-date=21 May 2018}}</ref>
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