Number 10 Downing Street has three state drawing rooms: the Pillard Room is the largest. Built by the 18th-century architect Robert Taylor around 1796, the room is used for hosting events and ...

a change in tone that unsurprisingly did not stick with the grandiosity of Boris Johnson’s move onto Downing Street. Johnson’s broad structure appeared to be closely aligned with the lectern from the ...

Since it was created by Boris Johnson over the Covid pandemic, the media briefing room in Downing Street has been resplendent in a rich blue. But journalists returned after Parliament’s ...

Downing Street has a long history of resident felines ... Damage was sustained to the kitchen and state rooms while Winston Churchill was dining in the Garden Room. The close call prompted ...

The Government has spent up to £80,000 to make Downing Street’s press briefing room a “politically neutral setting”. The briefing room, in Number 9 Downing Street, was refurbished during ...

Sir Keir Starmer has held his first press conference in the Downing Street briefing room after up to £80,000 of taxpayers’ money was spent on a “politically neutral” refurbishment.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer delivers a statement on defence spending in the Downing Street Briefing Room (Leon Neal/PA) Sir Keir Starmer announced a dramatic increase in defence spending from ...