#no-10-briefings

#no-10-briefings

Downing Street's director of communications, Tim Allan, unveiled the plan on Thursday without consulting the group of political journalists known as the lobby who traditionally attend briefings twice a day to question the prime minister's spokesperson. Allan said the government would be reducing the briefings to one a day, and would sometimes replace the single briefing with a press conference. Held at 9 Downing Street, lobby briefings are on the record but not broadcast.

On Tuesday evening, friends of Sir Keir Starmer said his job might be under immediate threat and that they were particularly suspicious of Streeting's leadership ambitions. Speaking to the BBC on Wednesday, the health secretary said he could "not see any circumstances under which I would do that to our prime minister". He added that briefings to the press against him were "the worst attack on a faithful since Joe Marler was banished in The Traitors final".