Downing Street’s Disaster Briefing Answers Zero Questions – Guido Fawkes

Downing Street’s Disaster Briefing Answers Zero Questions

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There was huge frustration from an assembled pack of Lobby journalists in Downing Street today for the regular briefing. Downing Street’s inability to answer basic questions about the headline issues is becoming endemic…

No10 is failing to provide substantive answers to basic questions:

• Why a rape gangs inquiry was opposed for so long.
• Whether Whitehall officials would be within the scope of the inquiry’s questioning.
• Whether the inquiry will be televised.
• What Downing Street meant when it said the situation in the Channel was ‘deteriorating.’
• Whose fault it is that the small boats situation is worsening.
• Whether the UK approves of French police using tear gas.
• When the steel industry can expect any news about tariffs.
• Why Downing Street promised those tariffs would go to zero when the deal was announced.
• Why military chiefs have been gagged by the government from answering questions at the RUSI conference today.

Gossiping Lobby hacks say relations have seriously deteriorated and the communications chaos is unprecedented for less than a year of a new government in office. Slow moving car crash becoming fast moving…