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		</div><p>UK ministers are under pressure to hold a Downing Street press conference to address questions on the Leicester lockdown extension.</p>
<p>The British Government scrapped the daily briefings last week but pledged to hold them to “coincide with significant announcements”.</p>
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<p>Boris Johnson said at the time that ministers would keep the nation informed as there will be “more outbreaks, certainly local outbreaks”.</p>
<p>But despite the introduction of measures including the closure of non-essential shops and schools in the city, Downing Street has said there are no plans for a press conference.</p>
<blockquote><p>They said they would reconvene press conferences when important, significant things happen. This is important and this is significant</p></blockquote>
<p>Labour leader Keir Starmer said people in Leicester are “crying out for answers to perfectly legitimate questions” on the lockdown as he led calls for a media briefing.</p>
<p>He said: “The Government needs, I think, a press conference today to answer those questions. They said they would reconvene press conferences when important, significant things happen. This is important and this is significant.</p>
<p>“We certainly want one today because people in Leicester are crying out for answers to perfectly legitimate questions.</p>
<p>“So, we are not arguing against the lockdown – that’s the right thing to do, we support the Government in that. But, there are serious questions that need answering, the best way to do that is a press conference this afternoon.”</p>
<p>Asked about the calls, the British Prime Minister’s official spokesman said there are “no current plans for that”.</p>
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<p>The spokesman said Health Secretary Matt Hancock went to the Commons after the decision had been made and took questions then and during a media round, as had the PM at his speech in Dudley on Tuesday morning.</p>
<p>“So I do think both nationally and locally steps have been taken to ensure that people have all the information they need.”</p>
<p>The PM’s spokesman was also asked about a lack of press access to Mr Johnson’s keynote speech in the West Midlands on Tuesday morning.</p>
<p>He said the restriction on the number of journalists invited was “purely down to the fact that we all need to continue to observe social distancing”.</p>
<p>“I think we all look forward to a point in time when we have more journalists in the room in person but we’re not there yet.”</p>
<p>He added: “We followed social distancing guidance and we made sure that obviously it could be filmed and there could be journalists in the room to ask the PM questions, which I think six or so journalists did.”</p>
<p>Tory MP Peter Bone later complained that the Government made the announcement to the media first, rather than Parliament as precedent requires.</p>
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<p>Raising a point of order, he told the Commons: “What can the Speaker do to get the Government to abide by the rules of Parliament?”</p>
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