Colleagues described Amber de Botton as a “talented political operator” and a “brilliant news editor”
(Picture: LinkedIn)It’s a surprising move, some could argue, for Rishi Sunak to hire a woman who once mocked his height on Twitter as his new hotshot communications guru.
But I guess that’s the price the new Prime Minister has to pay for sticking the knife into his old boss-turned-arch-rival, Boris Johnson – as well as being a highly regarded news hack at ITV, his new press chief Amber de Botton is also among the award-winning team who helped to expose Johnson’s Partygate antics and ultimately open the door back up for him at Number 10 (after a brief interlude lost out to Liz Truss, of course).
