Alastair Stewart

Boris’s TV briefings could end the lobby pantomime

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The daily coronavirus briefings from Downing Street were wildly popular by one measure, drawing in millions of viewers, but were they any use? Like them or loathe them, it seems that we will be seeing plenty more of them.

Boris Johnson has decided that, from October, the ‘briefings sessions’ should be televised.

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