In 2012, Watson interned for the
Barack Obama 2012 presidential campaign. She described working for
Boris Johnson during the
COVID-19 pandemic as being a like a "nanny" to him. She was fined after the
Partygate scandal. Following the
Sue Gray report it emerged that Watson had organised the event. In November 2020, she left Downing Street alongside
Dominic Cummings and
Lee Cain. In September 2022, she was a panellist on the debut episode of
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg on
BBC One. Watson is an author of two books. In 2024, she described Johnson as "quiet, bookish and, occasionally, extremely nasty". == Personal life ==