No. 10 Press Office:the autonomy available to government communicators to behave appropriately in relation to their own codes and to provide a public service has been depleted

Amid the frantic briefing and counter-briefing that has become typical of No. 10, Ruth Garland argues that although any form of government media briefing system will struggle to maintain impartiality, this need not result in the abandonment of the attempt to maintain communication in the public interest.