NEW PM Rishi Sunak has poached an ITV News chief to be his top spin doctor.
Experienced journalist Amber de Botton, who has also worked for Sky News, will become the PM’s director of communications.
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ITV political editor Robert Peston tweeted yesterday: “My colleague Amber de Botton is leaving ITV to be Rishi Sunak’s director of communications.
“She is a brilliant news editor and journalist, and leaves a huge hole at ITV News.”
Mr Sunak appointed the channel’s former national editor Allegra Stratton as his director of strategic communications in 2020 when he was chancellor.
She then became Boris Johnson’s spokeswoman for televised briefings.
She resigned after laughing about a “fictional party” at a mock press conference days after an alleged rule-breaching Christmas party at No 10.
