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Marie Le Conte (born ) is a French-Moroccan journalist and author, based in London.


Early life

Le Conte grew up in
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, in the
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area of France. She has Moroccan heritage. She had work experience at the ''
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'' newspaper in her home region, prior to moving to London to study journalism. She graduated with a BA in journalism from the
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in 2013.


Career


Journalist

As a journalist Le Conte worked from 2015 as ''
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'' political diarist, and from 2016 until 2017 was the politics correspondent for ''
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News''. In 2016 she was named by
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on their "30 To Watch" annual list of young journalists in the UK media industry. She has written for the ''
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'', ''
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'', the ''
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'' and ''
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'', amongst others. She was named as one of ''
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'' magazine’s "30 under 30" in 2018. Le Conte wrote about the differences in experience for men and women MPs in Westminster for ''
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'' in 2022. She has also interviewed major female UK political figures, including
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for '' Politics Home'', and Scotland’s First Minister
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in 2021 for ''
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''. Other women politicians profiled for the same publication have included
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,
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,
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, and
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. Le Conte has guested on the current affairs podcast ''
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'' and interviewed Scottish MP
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on its sister podcast ''The Bunker''. She has written about British politics for ''
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'', and has written about British attitudes from an outsider perspective. She has, with co-host Gráinne Maguire, produced a podcast called ''Changing Politics''. In 2019, she made headlines by calling
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's then-boyfriend Riley Roberts a "bin raccoon", comments for which she later apologised.


Author

Le Conte wrote a collection of personal essays on race, language and identity in 2016, published by Von Zos. Writing about Westminster politics, she authored the book ''Haven’t You Heard? A Guide To Westminster Gossip and Why Mischief Gets Things Done'', which was published in September 2019. She wrote the book ''Honourable Misfits: A Brief History of Britain’s Weirdest, Unluckiest, and most Dangerous MPs'' in 2021. Le Conte authored the book ''Escape: How a Generation Shaped, Destroyed and Survived the Internet'', which was published in 2022.


Personal life

Le Conte is
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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Le Conte, Marie 1991 births Living people Alumni of the University of Westminster French bisexual writers French expatriates in England French people of Moroccan descent French women columnists French women journalists Mass media people from Nantes Moroccan bisexual people Moroccan women journalists People from Nantes Writers from Nantes 21st-century French women 21st-century French women writers