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A COVID-19 press conference held during the pandemic in the Downing Street Briefing Room (January 2022) The Downing Street Press Briefing Room is a room in 9 Downing Street, used by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and other senior government officials to hold press briefings and deliver ministerial broadcasts.
Boris Johnson will lead the first Government press conference hosted in the No 9 suite next week. Downing Street media room to host Covid briefings after £2.6m refurb completed Skip to main content
In January 2020, the government began hosting lobby briefings at 9 Downing Street instead of the traditional location in the House of Commons. The move was criticised by journalists. [5] [6] That year the building began undergoing a £2.6-million refurbishment in preparation for televised press briefings to be held. [7]
Alongside the press conference, the Government will publish the results of its reviews into the use of so-called vaccine passports and the future of social distancing guidance, Downing Street ...
Allegra Stratton was Downing Street Press Secretary from October 2020 to April 2021. [46] 22 December: In the Downing Street Press Briefing Room, Press Secretary Allegra Stratton, adviser Ed Oldfield and others hold a mock press conference to prepare Stratton for planned daily televised briefings. Over the course of the press conference ...
The Prime Minister told a Downing Street press conference: “Let me say directly to the people watching: where the last government failed you, this one will not. They drove immigration numbers up.
In January 2020 the Government moved its twice-daily briefing sessions for journalists from the House of Commons to 9 Downing Street, against the wishes of many Lobby journalists. [7] In the same month, the Lobby chairman allowed for briefings to be reported live, after Guido Fawkes reporters live-tweeted them. [8]
UK Health Security Agency chief Dr Jenny Harries suggested ‘not socialising when we don’t particularly need to’ in the run-up to Christmas.