Mary Elizabeth Lalage Wakefield (born 12 April 1975)[1][2] is a British journalist, and a columnist and commissioning editor for The Spectator.
Katherine Mary Alice, daughter of Evelyn Baring, 1st Baron Howick of Glendale, a colonial administrator in Africa.
[4] Wakefield was educated at the independent girls' boarding school Wycombe Abbey and at the University of Edinburgh (MA).
[12] In 2015, following an online petition, Wakefield apologised and amended an article she had written for The Spectator in which she described an 18-year-old who had recently died in a moped crash as a "thuggish white lad".
[23] On 22 May it was reported that Wakefield and Cummings had driven over 260 miles (c. 420 km) each way between London and Durham in late March to stay in a cottage at her father-in-law's farm,[24] while both, reportedly, were exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms,[25] although Cummings states that his symptoms appeared the day after the journey was made.