He was the party's interim president from December 2020 to July 2021 and is currently chief of staff to the New Zealand First leader, Winston Peters.
He was the NZ First electorate committee vice-chairman in Palmerston North while studying at Massey University and launched a campus branch of New Zealand First in September 2013.
[10] Ball's members bill, the Youth Employment Training and Education Bill, was debated in Parliament in May 2017; proposing the establishment of a youth employment training and education programme within the Defence Force, it was defeated at its first reading with only the support of New Zealand First, Labour and the Māori Party.
The bill proposed that anyone who intentionally injures a first responder or prison officer commits an offence with a minimum sentence of six months of imprisonment.
[18][19] After the 2020 general election, and after it was transferred to National Party MP Mark Mitchell, the bill was reconsidered by the House and discharged.
[21] He and his fellow NZ First MPs lost their seats after the party's vote dropped to 2.6%, below the five percent threshold needed to enter Parliament.
[25] Ball put himself forward as a candidate in a by-election for a seat on the Palmerston North City Council in February 2021,[26] but was unsuccessful, coming third.
[28] As leader of the trust, Ball criticised the Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson for attending a function hosted by the Mongrel Mob gang.