Prime Ministers Lecterns

in #teamuklast year

Every Prime Minister chooses their own lectern from which to make speeches outside Downing Street - but no-one had noticed before, till Liz Truss's unusual lectern was replaced with a plainer one for Rishi Sunak.

Why do they change them? Well, each Prime Minister is a different height, and the ladies also like to wear heels. It's easier to change the height of the lectern than make the Prime Minister look silly standing on a box (thinking of you, Rishi).

Here's Rishi Sunak's:


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Here is Liz Truss, Boris Johnson, Theresa May, David Cameron and Gordon Brown:


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Apparently Tony Blair used the same lectern as Gordon Brown - it had an adjustable/moveable steel rod that could be moved up and down to change the height.

Thatcher just had plain microphones on a stand, no lectern, as did John Major:

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I confess I liked Liz Truss's lectern best.