How To Use Downing street In A Sentence
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Number Ten Downing Street is the British prime minister's official residence.
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Ten days of frenzied reporting had not been stilled by increasingly angry Downing Street statements.
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Downing Street last night refused to discuss any British involvement.
The Sun
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The announcement took Washington and Paris by surprise, but Downing Street had been expecting it.
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But Gordon Brown will have been disappointed by Clegg's comments as they appearsto scupper any chance of a Lib-Lab pact that would keep him in Downing Street.
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He was one of three loyalists who went to Downing Street to plead with her to stay on.
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Inevitably, there is suspicion that the latest internal recasting of the MoD, though triggered by 10 months' work by Lord Levene and the defence reform unit, has also been shaped at the 11th hour by Downing Street's extreme anger at recent unauthorised public complaints by the service chiefs about the sustainability of the Libya mission.
Ministry of Defence: Too many chiefs | Editorial
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He was back in parliament but there was no chance of moving into 11 Downing Street during this administration.
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At the onset of the Second World War, the young diplomat was seconded from the Foreign Office to Number 10 Downing Street.
Democracy vs. Hypocrisy
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Downing Street denied there had been a hurried overnight redrafting of the text.
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Downing Street has so far refused to comment on these reports.
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The best illustration of this strange reversal is the curious fate of the Downing Street memo.
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And the glamorous lawyer showed she meant business earlier this week when she arrived at a Downing Street reception in a red figure-hugging outfit, upstaging the World Cup heroes in whose honour the reception was held.
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More than a quarter of a million people signed a petition that was delivered to Downing Street last month demanding that the fees be banned.
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The latest piece of flapdoodle concerns Downing Street's plans to dock child benefit from the parents of tearaway children.
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That's the message from the arts world, and Downing Street must judge whether it's just a few jumpy luvvies or the revealing response of people whose job is to anticipate and satisfy the public's mood.
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Speaking outside Ten Downing Street, she declared that she would fight on.
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Downing Street demanded a replacement, insisting that the Prime Minister would only be interviewed by a man.
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The protesters congregated outside parliament before holding a sit-down protest in front of Downing Street.
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Imagining a universe in which Seixon’s arguments are cogent is a cost-effective alternative to doing drugs … kinda like smoking Norwegian pot by proxy. see his responses pertaining to the downing street memo. btw, tripmaster, i almost went there in my post about wmds, but decided against it. somehow i just knew what his response was going to be.
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The initiative is said to be the brainchild of Downing Street chief of strategy Stephen Carter and is intended to 'humanise' the Prime Minister as his popularity continues to wane. '
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
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Manning had been the ambassador to Israel and Nato before moving into Downing Street.
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Downing Street rejected the idea.
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Downing Street is already working hard to forge ties with Obama.
The Sun
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Whether Downing Street's froideur is a harbinger of continuing non-co-operation with Bute House remains to be seen.
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She is said to have had the run of Downing Street, until her exclusion in April.
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This bombshell Downing Street conspiracy was hatched in secret and denied in the face of indisputable evidence.
The Sun
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The obvious interpretation put on each ministerial speech has been vigorously denied by Downing Street.
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He left Downing Street in 1963 almost an object of ridicule, condemned in Gibbonian terms as the symbol of national decay.
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He is strongly opposed to NHS care being opened up to "any willing provider" – a key element of Lansley's plan, which Downing Street now worries has left ministers vulnerable on the charge that they are privatising the NHS, and also concerned that, in the melee of a radical restructure, the NHS finances will get out of control.
Experts speak out on what Andrew Lansley should change in his health bill
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Much more worrying is that there are the first signs that inside Downing Street the team is beginning to flinch in the face of such criticism.
Times, Sunday Times
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10 Downing Street is the British Prime Minister's official residence.
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Whatever that result, he does return to Downing Street still permanently winged by Iraq.
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Roll the die, answer a question and move up the greasy pole to Downing Street.
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As yet there is no word on the disclosures from Downing Street.
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the Prime Minister lives at No. 10 Downing Street
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Now the former Downing Street adviser is offering style tips to the rest of us.
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For what actually happened was that on collecting the Sheila McKechnie Foundation award at a Downing Street reception in 2008, Glass stepped forward and then moved, with partial success, to superglue his hand to that of the then prime minister Gordon Brown to highlight the iniquities of the proposed third runway at Heathrow Airport.
Hugh Muir's diary
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Downing Street rejected the idea.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now the former Downing Street adviser is offering style tips to the rest of us.
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Downing Street have released the initial details of Prime Minister Gollum Brown's Cabinet reshuffle to awed disinterest from the world.
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Downing Street rejected the idea.
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When news leaked out of a gathering last week, Downing Street said it should have ‘remained private’.
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The announcement came after a three-hour Cabinet meeting in Downing Street.
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Downing Street has been buoyed by polling suggesting strong public support for welfare reform.
Times, Sunday Times
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Earlier this year Janet and supporters marched on Downing Street in October to demand a public inquiry into Christopher's death after five police officers were cleared of neglect of duty.
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While Reid clattered around broadcasting studios explaining why sections of the security services were out to get his government, a number of senior figures within Downing Street were wincing.
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As the rest of the tawdry tale emerged the Foreign Office and Downing Street lapsed into embarrassed silence.
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Naturally the most ambitious junior ministers and backbenchers are also creeping up to Downing Street.
The Sun
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He had just interviewed the Prime Minister and had come away from Number 10 Downing Street convinced that the Labour leader was just about kaput politically.
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Cameron, who started working for the Conservative party in the last two years of Thatcher's period in Downing Street, will echo two of her most famous statements when he says today: After a decade of reckless spending under Labour, Britain needs good housekeeping from the Conservatives.
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But Downing Street remains unrepentant about the tone of the intervention.
The Sun
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As for Andy's suggestion of the possibility of losing the story if Downing Street were prewarned, I have great faith in Dizzy's ability to keep records.
Has Downing Street put anonymous security officer at risk?
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The best-known streets of London are Fleet Street, the Strand, Piccadilly, Whitehall, Pall Mall, Downing Street, and Lombard Street.
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He is back on the warpath, freshened up and revitalised by his months away from Downing Street.
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This proved too much for Downing Street, which promptly unrescinded the initial order, which was imposed after media horror over a "Monsters 'Ball" at Holloway Jail.
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Downing Street publicly refused yesterday to contemplate defeat.
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Given the missteps by Prime Minister Gordon Brown -- who called a widowed retiree a bigot in off-camera remarks last week -- Labor in particular is bracing for what may be its biggest defeat since 1983, when Margaret Thatcher won a second term and the party was exiled from No. 10 Downing Street for another 14 years.
British elections could deliver a blow to two-party rule
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But Downing Street sources said there were no immediate plans for a photocall.
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In what Downing Street dubbed a "fightback" address, the
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I took many exasperating telephone calls from the press during my time in Downing Street, but one in particular sticks in my mind.
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After the election, I became a frequent visitor to Downing Street.
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Downing Street postponed the appointment from Monday following a delay in the Prime Minister's schedule after talks in Northern Ireland overran.
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Downing Street has been off limits to the general public since 1982.
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But the final, authoritative judgment on the by-election was pronounced from No. 10, Downing Street.
POLITICAL SUICIDE
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A spokesman said: The proof that Wendy Alexander's U-turn was an unorganised and freelance operation is confirmed by Downing Street's failure to endorse her comments.
Archive 2008-05-01
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Churchill valued his false teeth so much that he often called Cudlipp to Downing Street to fix them.
Chron.com Chronicle
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The Prime Minister lives at 10 Downing Street.
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The Prime Minister arrived back at Downing Street from Paris this morning.
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Downing Street rejected the idea.
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Furthermore, some such as Admiralty House whilst 10 Downing Street was undergoing renovations or repairs.
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Downing Street sources re-emphasised the government's position on the Euro, stating there was simply ‘no change’.
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The Prime Minister lives at 10 Downing Street.
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William and Ffion enter Downing Street to tumultuous Tory applause and waving of union flags.
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But Downing Street last night insisted any communications received by him had no bearing on his appointments to the government benches, which were made on merit.
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He spent the lead-up to the G8 summit pushing hard for a deal on climate change, yet this deal caught Downing Street completely by surprise.
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The news today that female Labour MPs are complaining about the "laddish" culture in Number 10 Downing Street should be seen as preparing the way for the Labour Party to kick Gordon Brown out after the Norwich North by-election.
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Otherwise, his case was plausible, if you discount the toytown security dossier compiled by the internet pirates of Downing Street.
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Besides, apart from perhaps Ed Balls, she's the Big Loser from the reshuffle: Peter Mandelson has been made the de facto Deputy PM; while Downing Street's assertion that Harman will still "deputise" for Brown at PMQs came across as laughable and patronising.
Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
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The announcement came after a three-hour Cabinet meeting in Downing Street.
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The following are details released by Downing Street of George Bush's itinerary for his four-day visit to Britain.
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The threat to Mr Trimble's leadership will be assessed at the launch of a new round of intense talks aimed at salvaging the peace process in Downing Street today.
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10 Downing Street is the British Prime Minister's official residence.
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Last month they met Tony Blair at Downing Street, who pledged to boost the size of the registries, commit funds and organise a publicity campaign.
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Twenty-six names, on two sheets of Downing Street notepaper: a more eloquent and concise statement of the Prime Minister's standing than any number of opinion polls and election results could ever provide.
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Until the present Foreign Office was built in the 1860s, the department was housed in decrepit buildings in Downing Street.
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Downing Street sources said the move could give personnel the right to take legal action if they felt the covenant had not been upheld.
The Sun
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Now the former Downing Street henchman has set out a clear policy on household chores.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now the former Downing Street adviser is offering style tips to the rest of us.
Times, Sunday Times
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10 Downing Street is the British Prime Minister's official residence.
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Downing Street has been off limits to the general public since 1982.
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He said: ‘We have a string of denials, of discrepancies and dissembling on the part of Downing Street.’
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In the last weekly Downing Street meeting for parliamentary private secretaries, the cabinet office minister, Oliver Letwin, was lampooned for telling ministerial aides: "If this goes well we'll have nothing to legislate on in two years' time.
David Davis takes up challenge to prepare next round of Tory policies
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It did not deliver all the exonerations for which Downing Street was looking.
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There is a growing consensus, everywhere except Downing Street, that this is the way forward.
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The European Union's executive has proposed a new tax on bank transactions as the centrepiece of the EU's first €1trn budget, triggering a row with Downing Street, which dismissed the proposal as "completely unrealistic".
'Tobin tax' called for by EU in seven-year blueprint
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The interesting thing about this Government is not so much the sporadic outbursts of guerrilla warfare between Nos 10 and 11 Downing Street as the fact that the duumvirate of these two has endured for so long.
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In future the BBC in Scotland will decide on how it covers the news on strict editorial grounds instead of how the director-general in London wants the news presented and has stitched it up with Downing Street.
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10 Downing Street is the British Prime Minister's official residence.
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In 10 Downing Street, all eyes are on the Chancellor's speech next week.
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He made the promise as the Evening Telegraph went to Downing Street to tackle him on the issue.
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Turpin's dandy appearance bewildered campaigners and Downing Street police officers, who eventually banished him from the houses of power - but his message struck a chord.
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Home Secretary Jacqui Smith and Downing Street have called the South Yorkshire attack "shocking".
Undefined
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The State in all European countries, and in England first of all, as I hope, will discover that its functions are now, and have long been, very wide of what the State in old pedant Downing Streets has aimed at; that the State is, for the present, not a reality but in great part a dramatic speciosity, expending its strength in practices and objects fallen many of them quite obsolete; that it must come a little nearer the true aim again, or it cannot continue in this world.
Latter-Day Pamphlets
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Downing Street has been off limits to the general public since 1982.
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Geraldine Pearson was one of hundreds of women who made their way to Downing Street last week as part of a campaign to save the jobs of their menfolk at the already silent MG Rover plant.
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His official spokeswoman said that Downing Street would consider its findings carefully.
Times, Sunday Times
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He recently completed a commission for the banqueting suite at 10 Downing Street.
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Cabinet members were tight-lipped and unsmiling as they emerged from Downing Street.
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The Prime Minister is now firmly ensconced in Downing Street with a large majority.
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Gordon Brown, who continued to base himself in Downing Street, faced claims he had "ranted" at
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The morning the debate on Hutton was held, demonstrators dressed as judges threw whitewash at the gates of Blair's Number 10 Downing Street residence.
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Some friends say she is already countenancing life outside of Downing Street.
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The resonant phrases, no doubt coined by Downing Street's resonant phrase craftsman, continued to roll out.
Cameron even makes war seem reasonable | Simon Hoggart's sketch
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Speaking outside Ten Downing Street, she declared that she would fight on.
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The Prime Minister is now firmly ensconced in Downing Street with a large majority.
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Downing Street sources said the move could give personnel the right to take legal action if they felt the covenant had not been upheld.
The Sun
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Significantly, Downing Street's suggestion that exile would head off war re-emphasises that disarmament is no longer the sole aim of what is being called the ‘coalition of the willing’.
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Downing Street has been off limits to the general public since 1982.
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But the final, authoritative judgment on the by-election was pronounced from No. 10, Downing Street.
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The Prime Minister lives at 10 Downing Street.
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He was never likely to denounce the Downing Street snake-pit and order its inmates to the gallows.
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He had been proud of the idea that he would be part of the deputation of miners that would march on from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street.
THE WHITE DOVE
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Minutes after the Downing Street meeting ended, the image of unity was exploded.
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Elsewhere in Europe, Larry, the Downing Street cat, is let in to his residence and Syrian refugees seek safety in Turkey.
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Downing Street officials were left squirming as they had to change their tune over the letter yesterday.
The Sun
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Downing Street, if not quite yet gripped by paralysis, is at least on edge waiting for malevolent treachery to strike again.
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Downing Street has the option of going with Prescott and Labour, or with Cameron and the Tories.
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Downing Street condemned the move by professors and lecturers from universities across the country as irresponsible.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Prime Minister arrived back at Downing Street from Paris this morning.
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The Prime Minister arrived back at Downing Street from Paris this morning.
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Downing Street is taking the French opinion polls very seriously indeed.
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This bombshell Downing Street conspiracy was hatched in secret and denied in the face of indisputable evidence.
The Sun
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Visiting Downing Street earlier in the day, Mr Obama was at once emollient, self-critical and articulate, in a way that put an initially bashful Gordon Brown at his ease.
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The Prime Minister had lit the touchpaper and retired to Downing Street, job done.
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Somewhere in the cellars of Downing Street a post-election celebratory hamper from the designer Kelly Hoppen sits unopened, as does a rug from the prime minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, ties from Silvio Berlusconi and tennis rackets and wine from Nicolas Sarkozy.
David Cameron's housewarming gifts revealed
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Sir Michael Wilshaw Ofsted chief inspector Sir Michael was speaking ahead of a Downing Street summit on so-called "coasting" schools - where performance, often in well-off areas, is not necessarily inadequate but has failed to impress.
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Downing Street denied there had been a hurried overnight redrafting of the text.
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Downing Street seems determined to remain deaf to all these voices of reason.
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Downing Street has the option of going with Prescott and Labour, or with Cameron and the Tories.
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Downing Street said that the meeting was constructive and that officials would soon begin consulting on what a trade relationship might look like.
Times, Sunday Times
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Number Ten Downing Street is the British prime minister's official residence.
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The announcement took Washington and Paris by surprise, but Downing Street had been expecting it.
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This shattering statistic crashed into Downing Street, where brows were being mopped and arrangements stood down.
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And Downing Street is worried about its contagion, its debilitating effect on UK democracy and the cure.
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Ms Moore, the department and Downing Street issued blanket denials, claiming the e-mail was fabricated and fictitious.
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Downing Street is not confirming when the announcement will be made amid signs that the prime minister is struggling to resolve the conundrum of how to reshuffle his junior ministers.
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Home Secretary Jacqui Smith and Downing Street have called the South Yorkshire attack
The Guardian World News
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On the same day of the meeting last month, the Downing Street strategy unit held an away-day to discuss the respect agenda.
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In a few short months, this new crew have defaulted to every reflex that has made Britain uncompetitive before and since the Iron Lady occupied No. 10 Downing Street.
No Heirs
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Speaking outside Ten Downing Street, she declared that she would fight on.
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Downing Street has asked the lord chief justice to recommend a judge to lead the inquiry.
Times, Sunday Times
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In this sense, the contest between transformers and consolidators is merely a version of the battle royal between No.10 and No.11 Downing Street - the offices of the Prime Minister and Chancellor.
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Minister after a dignified brief address before Downing Street staff and ranks of media, in which he acknowledged his own 'frailties'.
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These children from a British Midland school were having their picture taken on the prime minister's Downing Street doorstep.
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Downing Street said that the meeting was constructive and that officials would soon begin consulting on what a trade relationship might look like.
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After the election, I became a frequent visitor to Downing Street.
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Downing Street denied there had been a hurried overnight redrafting of the text.
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The door at number 10 Downing Street always looks to be in immaculate condition.
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Downing Street is taking the French opinion polls very seriously indeed.
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This bombshell Downing Street conspiracy was hatched in secret and denied in the face of indisputable evidence.
The Sun
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Downing Street hopes it will concentrate minds among the rebels, to instil in them the reality that inflicting defeat now would mean the end of Blair, not just this policy.
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Numbers 10 and 11 Downing Street look as disunited on this defining issue as they have done for some considerable time.
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More than a quarter of a million people signed a petition that was delivered to Downing Street last month demanding that the fees be banned.
Times, Sunday Times
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Over the years he's had connections up to Downing Street level, the support of the Orange Lodge and the adoration of the RUC.
A SEASON IN HELL
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Demonstrators of all ages beat drums and blew whistles along a three-mile route that took them past parliament and the end of Downing Street, where crowds paused to jeer towards Mr Blair's office.
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Downing Street has a rather lame excuse: ‘The challenges of globalisation have become clearer.’
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Yesterday's news that Downing Street may rip one major plank out of that plan will – if it happens – effectively sink the whole thing.
Prisons: Reaction resurgent | Editorial
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Simple as the question seems, it may be doubted, considering the remarkable increase of late years in the number of John Bull's colonial progeny, whether the most experienced red-tapist of Downing Street could answer it without some hesitation.
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But the final, authoritative judgment on the by-election was pronounced from No. 10, Downing Street.
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We walked down Downing Street right up to Number 10 and visited the Tower of London.
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And the more the public see of the fey, metrosexual roistering of "Posh & Cleggs" in the Downing Street rose garden, the sooner Labour will return to power.
Tristram Hunt's election: a new boy lost within a Gothic Wonderland
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Speaking outside Ten Downing Street, she declared that she would fight on.
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There seems to be a rift between party headquarters and Downing Street.
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A demand for plans to curb youth unemployment has gone out from Downing Street, to be announced at the conference.
David Davis takes up challenge to prepare next round of Tory policies
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He has not made his mind up yet as to whether it would be wise to go on a Visitation because of the strange situation of one Dean going and another waiting to be appointed by Downing Street.
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Downing Street condemned the move by professors and lecturers from universities across the country as irresponsible.
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Sandra Pearce, 43, who suffers from an extreme form of juvenile arthritis, has now been able to take a real bite of beefburger - her first since Margaret Thatcher left 10 Downing Street.
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Downing Street has asked the lord chief justice to recommend a judge to lead the inquiry.
Times, Sunday Times
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Downing Street is taking the French opinion polls very seriously indeed.
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One would imagine the emphasise is so that people don’t waste effort encouraging non-UK contacts to sign it when they would either not sign it when that requirement was highlighted, or if they did sign it simply get discounted by Downing Street who, other intents aside, do seem to wish for these e-petitions to be generally ‘valid’.
Petition to defer any bill on prostitution until after the next general election
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Downing Street is already working hard to forge ties with Obama.
The Sun
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Downing Street urged firefighters to call off the next planned strike so discussions could take place without the threat of industrial action hanging over them.
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There was controversy last month when a leaked paper from a Downing Street working group suggested a charge on each black sack left out for the binmen or a tax on plastic shopping bags.
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When Downing Street phoned to tell him, he thought it was a wind-up.
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Downing Street, however, described the suggestion as an idea, not a formal proposal.
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Campbell, a teetotaller, also discloses in today's extracts that the pressure of working in Downing Street became so great that he started drinking again around the turn of the millennium.
Alastair Campbell: Blair was angry at Prince's interference
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The Prime Minister arrived back at Downing Street from Paris this morning.
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In dramatic scenes in Downing Street, the Prime Minister, flanked by his wife Sarah and two young sons, wept as he conceded his own 'frailties' but insisted: 'I have always strived to serve, to do my best in the interests of
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More than a quarter of a million people signed a petition that was delivered to Downing Street last month demanding that the fees be banned.
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That new target is the key recommendation of a new report on integrating care by the King's Fund and Nuffield Trust health thinktanks, whose chief executives both advise Downing Street.
David Cameron orders merging of health and social care
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In a sign of nervousness in Downing Street, which fears that the public backlash is jeopardising Cameron's work in persuading the public that the NHS is safe in Tory hands, Lansley will accept some of the broad principles in the health select committee report.
Andrew Lansley scrambles to save coalition's NHS reforms
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Even though Downing Street and the Treasury would try to gag him, he felt compelled to speak out about his governing passion.
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The announcement came after a three-hour Cabinet meeting in Downing Street.
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This Downing Street source didn't say that Charles Barry's SW1 palace would become the flagship London Pizza Express, gastropubbed and walls painted aubergine, though they might have done.
The problem with Mayor-mania
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He acknowledges the cheers of his back benches, flicks an invisible speck from his irreproachable Paul Smith sleeve and saunters off back to Downing Street.
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Downing Street is taking the French opinion polls very seriously indeed.
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Downing Street last night tried to gloss over Lord Butler's scathing, but tactfully phrased verdict on its shambolically informal style of government.
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He's a pussycat reallyLarry, the Downing Street catTragically, endearingly, endearingly tragically or possibly tragically endearingly, news reaches us that No 10 has been furnished with a mouser from Battersea Cats' Home, to try to deal with its vermin problem insert own joke here.
This Week: Nick Clegg, Larry the Downing Street cat, Pippa Middleton
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This is criminality pure and simple, and it has to be confronted and defeated," Cameron told reporters from outside his residence at 10 Downing Street.