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Tony Blair

Asked if the Prime Minister had an opinion on Tony Blair becoming the President of the EU Council of Ministers, the PMS said that he had been asked about that in Lisbon in October, and would refer journalists back to his words then when he said that Tony Blair would be a great candidate for any significant international job.

Asked if the Prime Minister had discussed this with Tony Blair, the PMS replied that journalists would not expect him to get into private conversations but emphasised that these were still early days in terms of the process for selecting the future president.

Asked if the Prime Minister thought there should be any restrictions on the jobs past Prime Ministers could accept, the PMS said that there was a process for governing the future arrangements for employment of previous ministers and that was the Business Advisory Committee; it was an independent process; it was run by the Cabinet Office and the Prime Minister thought that was the right process.

Asked if the Prime Minister had had any conversations with Tony Blair about anything since last July, the PMS replied that, as we had often said, the Prime Minister and Tony Blair spoke on a regular basis but that journalists would not expect us to comment on the nature or content of those conversations.

Asked if Tony Blair had been back to No 10, the PMS said that the Prime Minister and Tony Blair had had a number of meetings as well as telephone conversations but he was not going to get into the specifics.

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