Mimi wrote:
How did they spend so much money on the Downing Street briefing room and make it look so *ugly*?!
Yeah, it's hideous, like some low-budget early '90s minor ITV regional news programme (Westcountry, probably)
I don't feel comfortable with it at all. Ministers should be reporting to Parliament. The whole thing reeks of another attempt by the Johnson crew to control their message and reduce opportunities for scrutiny and criticism. Besides lazy or hard-pressed (delete as preferred) journalists will just use clips from that to fill airtime, and the Tory bots will flood social media with clips showing how Johnson "owns" Brussels etc.
The Tories' current obsession flag-hugging is vomit-inducing, deliberately making it look like they own the thing and hat to oppose them is to oppose Britain.