Journalist Isabel Oakeshott defends Vicky Pryce article

As former Liberal Democrat Energy Secretary Chris Huhne and his ex-wife Vicky Pryce prepare to be sentenced at Southwark Crown Court, Sunday Times political editor Isabel Oakeshott has told the BBC's Sunday Politics her side of the story.

Isabel Oakeshott convinced Ms Pryce to go on the record about taking Chris Huhne's speeding points.

The email correspondence between the two women was revealed in the trial which saw Pryce convicted of perverting the course of justice.

Ms Oakeshott told the BBC's Andrew Neil: 'I knew Vicky Pryce was telling the truth about what had happened", and added: ''She was very clear about what she was doing,''

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