After a wild week in No.10 Downing Street, host Patrick Baker takes listeners on a podcast tour of the famous building to find out how the hell a cobbled-together\u00a0Georgian townhouse\u00a0is meant to run a modern state. Patrick asks\u00a0how the rabbit warren layout influences those who govern the country, for better or worse.<\/p>\n
In one of his first interviews since stepping down, former Cabinet Secretary Simon Case opens up on how the building is less-than-ideal for the demands of modern government \u2014 with problems like losing the PM all-too-common. Case argues its layout contributed to the Partygate scandal that toppled Boris Johnson.<\/p>\n
The set designer of the film \u201cLove Actually,\u201d Jim Clay, recounts a tour given to him by Gordon Brown so he could memorise the layout \u00a0\u2014 and commentates on Hugh Grant as he boogies down the Grand Staircase.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jack Brown, author of \u201cThe Power of Geography at No 10,\u201d gives a step-by-step tour, taking us inside the pokey \u201cDen,\u201d the prime minister\u2019s office at the heart of Downing Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n
POLITICO Political Editor Dan Bloom explains why Keir Starmer prefers working in open-plan offices \u2014 and shares some secrets from rooms you\u2019ve never heard of.<\/p>\n
Beatrice Timpson, former deputy press secretary to Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, shares her sympathy for those in the policy unit, seen as banished to the rafters of Number 10. And she reveals the constant battle for phone signal that rages at the heart of British power.\u00a0<\/p>\n
John McTernan, who served as political secretary to Tony Blair, reveals stories from the Number 10 flat \u2014 and sets out what the current government must do to overcome the limitations of the building.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a wild week in No.10 Downing Street, host Patrick Baker takes listeners on a podcast tour of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[5109,748,28,393,90439,4884,807,1749,1144,38403,5112,712,180619,27005,16,15,1764,98158],"class_list":{"0":"post-568985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-boris-johnson","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-buildings","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-gordon-brown","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-keir-starmer","17":"tag-liz-truss","18":"tag-northern-ireland","19":"tag-partygate","20":"tag-rishi-sunak","21":"tag-scotland","22":"tag-simon-case","23":"tag-tony-blair","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-wales","27":"tag-westminster-insider"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115545924170444494","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}