Journalist As a journalist Le Conte worked from 2015 as
Evening Standard political diarist, and from 2016 until 2017 was the politics correspondent for
BuzzFeed News. In 2016 she was named by
MHP Communications on their "30 To Watch" annual list of young journalists in the UK media industry. She has written for the
Sunday Times,
The New World,
The Guardian, the
New Statesman and
The Independent, amongst others. She was named as one of
Forbes magazine’s "30 under 30" in 2018. Le Conte wrote about the differences in experience for men and women MPs in Westminster for
Elle in 2022. She has also interviewed major female UK political figures, including
Emily Thornberry for
Politics Home, and Scotland’s First Minister
Nicola Sturgeon in 2021 for
Vogue. Other women politicians profiled for the same publication have included
Zarah Sultana,
Charlotte Nichols,
Taiwo Owatemi, and
Sarah Owen. Le Conte has guested on the current affairs podcast
Oh God, What Now? and interviewed Scottish MP
Mhairi Black on its sister podcast
The Bunker. She has written about British politics for
Politico.eu, 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
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez'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==