Editor’s Letter: Televised lobby briefings should increase accountability – but Team Johnson is also motivated by self-interest

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Team Johnson will need a more open process for the new normal to have credibility, says Andrew Grice

hen I joined the band of Westminster-based journalists in 1982, the lobby rulebook I was handed dictated that Downing Street’s twice-daily briefings be attributed only to anonymous “Whitehall sources”.and other newspapers in the late 1980s, the media was allowed to say the briefings were from “Downing Street sources” and, in 1997, the prime minister’s spokesperson.

 

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