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10 Downing Street in London is the official residence and office of the prime minister of the United Kingdom. [2] Colloquially known as Number 10, the building is in Downing Street, off Whitehall in the City of Westminster. 10 Downing Street is the current residence of the current prime minister Keir Starmer, since 2024 after succeeding former prime minister Rishi Sunak.
The office is located in 10 Downing Street and the terms Downing Street and Number 10 are often used as metonyms for the office itself. Technically the Prime Minister's Office is part of the Cabinet Office, [3] although in practice the two are said to be 'organisationally distinct'. [4]
Downing Street is a street in Westminster in London that houses the official residences and offices of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. In a cul-de-sac situated off Whitehall , it is 200 metres (660 ft) long, and a few minutes' walk from the Houses of Parliament .
For more than three decades, VIP visitors to No 10 Downing Street would solemnly sign their names in the Visitors Book. Now three gilt-edged volumes, covering the years 1970, when Edward Heath was ...
Number 10 Downing Street, including the House at the Back: 1735 and After Between 1733 and 1735, the architect William Kent , under a commission from Sir Robert Walpole, combined Litchfield House and one of the Downing Street townhouses into one house, known since as Number 10 Downing Street, officially the residence of the First Lord of the ...
The last time Mr Obama visited Downing Street was eight years ago in 2016. The former president met with then prime minister David Cameron at Number 10 for talks ahead of the Brexit vote.
Former US president Barack Obama has met with Rishi Sunak in a “courtesy visit” to Downing Street. Mr Obama spent around an hour inside the No 10 study with the Prime Minister on Monday afternoon.
The garden of 10 and 11 Downing Street is an L-shaped garden, 1 ⁄ 2 acre (0.2 ha) in size, behind the official residences of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 10 and 11 Downing Street in the Whitehall district of the City of Westminster in central London. The garden has been gradually developed over ...