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10 Downing Street. 10 Downing Street in London is the official residence and office of the prime minister of the United Kingdom. [2] Colloquially known as Number 10, the building is in Downing Street, off Whitehall in the City of Westminster. It is over 300 years old, is Grade I listed, [1] and contains approximately 100 rooms.
The Downing Street mortar attack was carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 7 February 1991. The IRA launched three homemade mortar shells at 10 Downing Street, London, the headquarters of the British government, in an attempt to assassinate Prime Minister John Major and his war cabinet, who were meeting to discuss the Gulf War.
1688–1690. Lord Lansdowne. —. 1692–1696. Henry Nassau, Lord Overkirk, 1st Earl of Grantham. Master of the Horse. 1699–1703. Number 10 Downing Street, including the House at the Back: 1735 and After. Between 1733 and 1735, the architect William Kent, under a commission from Sir Robert Walpole, combined Litchfield House and one of the ...
In the United Kingdom, the Prime Minister's Office supports the work of the Prime Minister in his executive, parliamentary and party-political roles. [2] The office is located in 10 Downing Street and the terms Downing Street and Number 10 are often used as metonyms for the office itself. Technically the Prime Minister's Office is part of the ...
March 18, 2024 at 1:12 PM. Barack Obama has visited Downing Street for a surprise meeting at No 10 with Rishi Sunak. The former US president - who served in the White House between 2009 and 2017 ...
Later extensions were installed to both 10 Downing Street and the specially constructed Transatlantic Telephone Room within the Cabinet War Rooms. [23] Churchill's office-bedroom, open from 27 July 1940, [24] included BBC broadcasting equipment; Churchill made four wartime broadcasts from the Cabinet War Rooms, the first being on 11 September ...
The garden of 10 and 11 Downing Street is an L-shaped garden, 1⁄2 acre (0.2 ha) in size, behind the official residences of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 10 and 11 Downing Street in the Whitehall district of the City of Westminster in central London. The garden has been gradually developed over ...
Former US president Barack Obama has met with Rishi Sunak in a “courtesy visit” to Downing Street. Mr Obama spent around an hour inside the No 10 study with the Prime Minister on Monday afternoon.