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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]
Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office [a] is the title of the official resident cat at 10 Downing Street, the residence and office of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in London. There has been a resident cat in the British government employed as a mouser and pet since the 16th century, although modern records date only to the 1920s.
On a warm June morning about three weeks after the big meeting at 10 Downing Street, Prime Minister Sunak stepped up to a lectern at a tech conference in London to give a keynote address. “The ...
Kwasi Kwarteng has entered Number 10 Downing Street amid speculation that he is to be made Chancellor of the Exchequer in Liz Truss’s Cabinet. 6.20pm Suella Braverman has entered the front door ...
Most cabinet meetings take place in the Cabinet Room of 10 Downing Street; however, they have been known to take place in other places. [2] Despite the custom of meeting on a Thursday, after the appointment of Gordon Brown, the meeting day was switched to Tuesday. [16]
Cabinet Room may refer to: Cabinet Room (10 Downing Street), the meeting place of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom. Cabinet Room (White House), the meeting place of the Cabinet of the United States. Cabinet (room), a private room in the domestic architecture and that of palaces of Early Modern Europe.
Later extensions were installed to both 10 Downing Street and the specially constructed Transatlantic Telephone Room within the Cabinet War Rooms. [23] Churchill's office-bedroom, open from 27 July 1940, [24] included BBC broadcasting equipment; Churchill made four wartime broadcasts from the Cabinet War Rooms, the first being on 11 September ...