Theresa May switches on Downing Street Christmas lights

Tom Powell9 December 2016

Theresa May switched on the Downing Street Christmas lights for the first time as Prime Minister this evening.

She was joined by the three school girls whose designs were chosen for her official Christmas cards.

Children from the Eliot Bank primary school in south London performed carols as charity workers gathered in the street to watch the spectacle.

An anormous tree decked out with large silver baubles and tinsel takes pride of place just outside the door of Number Ten.

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