Allegra Stratton - New PM Press Secretary

Easter! (aka Early April!) is my guess.

No one could ever match CJ Cregg



(and yes that is the actress who played her, appearing in the actual WH press room)

This is interesting .....

OBSERVER: Attacks by PM’s ousted aide left PM’s new press chief in tears #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/vNWXyvWX0P

— Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) November 14, 2020

moreso in the context of Alastair Stewart's comments on Twitter in context.

Sounds hype, anyone who come across Allegro knows she an be, er.... Dramatic. Lets just say Private Eye has previously called her out as having hissy fits when working on Newsnight. This from this weeks publication.

The televised briefings will start on Monday 11 January and will be three times weekly:

The revolution of televised briefings by the PM’s press secretary, Allegra Stratton, is scheduled to start 11 Jan and will be every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday when Commons is sitting. Interesting that the briefing won’t take place on #PMQs day. I guess on Wednesdays...

— Robert Peston (@Peston) November 24, 2020

I don't know how I'm supposed to feel about these briefings as it was said in the summer that No.10 are modelling them on the White House briefings which when Trump's presented have been car crash TV and his latest press secretary has been a lie dispenser

Has the government also hired Screeny?

I imagine they'll air BBC News Channel and Sky News only as well as online. Can't imagine BBC One or BBC Two giving up an hour or more to it unless it's important.

Although if they're early enough in the morning they'll be on BBC2 anyway.

I think they will be shown initially but the novelty will soon wear off and they'll hopefully end up just being reported on afterwards rather than filling airtime for the sake of it.

I can see these briefings being shown on BBC 2. With a new political programme wrapped round the briefing, to discuss and de-brief what was actually said. It would probably fill up an hour of the daytime schedule three times a week.

Just as Politics Live on Wednesdays is couched around PMQs, you could imagine these Press Briefings being wrapped into it.

Will this mean the Press sent away from the Lobby, or will they still be allowed to have their unofficial chats and interviews from there?

This will be messy as the LotO will need equal opportunity to present either in person (or proxy) their policy and reaction. The other parties will need time too, moreso in the Devolved administration areas.