UK ambassador’s emails leaked by Brexit Party chairman’s mistress

The email leaks which led to the recent resignation of Britain’s US ambassador have been revealed as the work of a journalist in a relationship with the chairman of Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party.

Isabel Oakeshott – who leaked ambassador Kim Darroch’s emails referring to Donald Trump as dysfunctional and inept – has been in a relationship with MEP Richard Tice since last year.

Tice wants Darroch replaced as ambassador by a “pro-Brexit businessman” – a description which fits both himself and Nigel Farage – who will push for trade deals with the US as a replacement for trade with the European Union after their desired hard Brexit.

Oakeshott refused to comment on her relationship with Tice, who has left his wife, saying: “It’s a private matter.”

She insisted her lover was not involved in the leak of the envoy’s emails.