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Closed Limit political journalists at UK Gov Covid 19 Press Briefings

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Limit the number of political journalists asking questions at the daily press briefings for Covid 19. Each news organisation should only be allowed to send a political or economics journalist once a week, and the rest of time must send science or health specialists.

The quality of the questions has been extremely poor, asking repeat questions, questions treating the crisis as a chance to make an impression, or generally unhelpful questions. It wastes everyones time, when what we need are people who understand something about how we can work through the crisis.

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