Analysis: the PM will continue to avoid press while his political life is threatened by row over lockdown parties
With Omicron ripping through the nation’s schools, and the rules on mask-wearing, travel testing and vaccine passports all in flux, the public might have expected to hear from Boris Johnson at the Downing Street podium in recent days.
But the embattled prime minister last gave a Downing Street press conference almost four weeks ago, on 4 January.