🇬🇧 United Kingdom · 2021 · 🙈 Never used
A shiny new studio for daily televised press briefings. Then the briefings got cancelled.
💸 Guess, then reveal the price
£2.6 million room refit
Great acoustics. Shame about the show.
What actually happened
Downing Street refitted a room at 9 Downing Street for about £2.6 million for planned daily televised briefings, then dropped the plan in 2021. The government said the room would still be used for press conferences.
Source: PoliticsHome ↗ · Amount in original currency, not adjusted for inflation. An unusual cost is not automatically waste; see how we check the facts.