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After an incredible ten years at The Spectator, delighted to be joining the Times and Sunday Times as Washington Editor and columnist
Will miss the wonderful Spectator team a lot but excited for the next chapter
Katy Balls
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Katy Balls
@katyballs
Washington editor and columnist, The Times and Sunday Times. Previously: Spectator political editor. All views are Balls - [email protected]
Joined September 2010
- Very pleased to be appointed political editor of @spectator 🎉 Looking forward to the new year - with some big shoes to fill
- New: Tonight’s No. 10 meeting: Dominic Cummings told government aides they needed to be ‘cool like fonzies’ - he said that that ‘this is only the beginning’ and the strategy was to wait for others to melt while No10 rachet it up.
- NEW: Boris Johnson tells MPs that he will be bringing back Lynton Crosby for strategic advice Received one of the largest cheers of meeting
- Rory Stewart currently needs 13 more MPs to back him to get through Tuesday’s ballot. Whether he makes it through or not, Stewart has had lasting effect on contest. Or as one member of government put it: ‘Rory has messed up nearly everyone’s campaign’. blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/06/how-ro…
- NEW: Prime Minister to address the parliamentary party this afternoon 17:30 – MPs have not been given details of the purpose of the meeting
- Sense among some Tory MPs that Boris Johnson pulling out of the Northern Research Group conference to go to Kyiv could backfire with the party It was viewed as a chance to show he was taking MPs' domestic worries seriously
- Ouch. Brexit Party beats Labour in CambridgeTotals for Cambridge in the European elections, 23 May: Brexit Party. 5064 Change UK 1323 Conservative & Unionist 1499 English Democrats. 83 Green Party 9408 Labour Party. 4551 Liberal Democrats 17328 UKIP 482 CSORDAS Attila 68 Rejected. 124 Total votes. 39,930
- Roger Scruton wrote beautifully in the Christmas issue of The Spectator of what he had gained from the past year: spectator.co.uk/2019/12/roger-…
- ‘They will wake up soon from their fever dream and realise they have made the biggest mistake of their careers,’ says a No. 10 aide.
- Boris Johnson won’t vote for May’s deal- instead says he now thinks no deal only route left. Will go down well with the Tory grassroots...
- Sunak and Truss now chatting with the audience at the Talk TV debate
- 🚨 after YouGov called it for Rishi Sunak in the ITV debate, Savanta poll puts Keir Starmer out on top
- What a difference a year makes: Withdrawal Agreement Bill passes second reading 358 to 234 - loud cheers on the Tory benches
