She served as the Downing Street Director of Communications from October 2022 until September 2023, succeeding Guto Harri.
Following university, she embarked on a media career and was Deputy Head of Politics at Sky News for five years until 2017.
[4] Prior to her appointment as Downing Street Director of Communications, de Botton was approached on at least three previous occasions with job offers in government, but had declined them.
In 2010 she was offered a role with the Treasury under then Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, and later received two offers of roles in the Johnson government, first as deputy to Director of Communications Lee Cain, and later as Press Secretary, fronting daily press conferences during the COVID-19 pandemic.
[7] She is married to Oli de Botton, who stood as the Labour Party candidate in Hitchin and Harpenden at the 2010 general election.