Ex-Times political editor Francis Elliott to edit The House magazine

Elliott left The Times in 2020 and has since worked in advocacy for a charity.

A copy of The House magazine, which will now be edited by Francis Elliott. — A delegate uses a copy of The House Magazine to shelter from the rain on day three of the 2021 Conservative Party Conference at Manchester Central Convention Complex in October 2021. Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Francis Elliott is returning to journalism to become the next editor of in-house Parliament magazine The House.

Elliott wrote at The Times for 13 years, becoming its political editor in 2013, but left the title in 2020 to be director of advocacy at charity Engage Britain.

Mark Wallace, the chief executive of the Lord Ashcroft-owned Total Politics Group which publishes The House, said Elliott “rings huge experience and knowledge to the role of Editor of The House – a Westminster institution which sits at the heart of British political journalism.

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