Another day, another Downing Street blunder. Now it transpires that No. 10 sent a group of lobby journalists halfway across the country for a meet with Prime Minister Keir Starmer – only to belatedly clock they’d been directed to the wrong place. A pack of political journalists have found themselves stranded in the West Midlands after a Downing Street directive gave them the address to, er, the wrong car factory. Or perhaps No. 10 hoped that by sending the press to Coventry, they’d silence their criticism a bit…
No. 10 sent a group of lobby journalists halfway across the country for a meet with Prime Minister Keir Starmer – only to belatedly clock they’d been directed to the wrong place.
Today’s prime ministerial announcement on the UK-US trade deal has been slightly derailed after a misguided media memo led to the majority of the press being in the wrong part of the country.
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