Brown Swaps Numbers on Downing Street Doors in
Bid to Become PM
By Jay Effkay ◦
28-Jan-2007
The famous Downing Street doors appear to have
moved
Civil Servants and reporters were surprised on Monday morning to
find that the brass numbers on the doors of Downing Street appeared
to have been swapped in the night.
The Street is home to both the PM at number 10 and the Chancellor at number 11, but on Monday it appeared that the residences had swapped places.
"I could have sworn they were the other way around yesterday…but now I’m not so sure" said BBC’s Nick Robinson, scratching his head.
Standing outside the door of ‘Number 10’, Gordon Brown denied any discrepancy in the numbering and insisted that the "Prime Minister has always lived at Number 10 Downing Street, and as you can see this is my house, Number 10, so I’m in charge now, right?".
The Street is home to both the PM at number 10 and the Chancellor at number 11, but on Monday it appeared that the residences had swapped places.
"I could have sworn they were the other way around yesterday…but now I’m not so sure" said BBC’s Nick Robinson, scratching his head.
Standing outside the door of ‘Number 10’, Gordon Brown denied any discrepancy in the numbering and insisted that the "Prime Minister has always lived at Number 10 Downing Street, and as you can see this is my house, Number 10, so I’m in charge now, right?".
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