[interestednovice]

does Downing Street not have umbrellas?

I did wonder just before the announcement if they were going to bring out some kind of gazebo to allow the lectern to still be open yet under cover.

Mind you, it’s classic British “get on with it” to just make the speech in the open, come hell or high water! Contrast that to US presidential announcements, for example, which are far more stage managed.

Rishi did look very wet by the end though, I think he will need a change of clothes!

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Has this gone out on the World feed too?

Is this coverage coming from the Studio C gallery instead of Studio E, I wonder?

The local time tags are not shown on screen next to locations (such a Cardiff, right now) but since the recent graphics changes and the channel being based in E, we have had those formerly World-only tags in the UK too normally.

A change in templates between the two galleries could be the reason?