The government has given YouGov 'guidance' to help make sure questions selected for the daily coronavirus briefing are appropriate.
The Mirror understands the questions are selected at random by pollster YouGov, who received some 15,000 questions on Monday, the first day of the new format.
But the pollster has been told questions must be questions must be related to coronavirus or the health, economic and societal impact of it.
And they must not be solely relevant to the person asking the question. Questions will also be disqualified if they include profanity or racist language.
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