"... standing in the rain after the Tories blasted £1.8 million on a new Downing Street Press Briefing Room in 2021..."

-- I thought it was "more than £2.6m"...?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56413032

Though how any such figures could even be approached in the case of this project is totally beyond me...
https://markdoran.wordpress.com/2021/03/22/flagging-5-2/

M.