Proper noun

1. The office of the British Prime Minister; the UK Government.
   • 2009, Bagehot, "Who's Nasty Now?", The Economist, April 23, page 61:

     There are honourable people in the government and principled advisers working in Number 10, even if their unheralded service is obscured by the crass antics of spin doctors and the demagoguery of some ministers.