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» Thursday, March 20, 2008

Mayor of London

Asked if the Prime Minister would take onboard the Mayor’s views regarding the closure of post offices, the PMS replied that, as the Prime Minister had said yesterday, difficult decisions had to be taken in relation to the post office, reflecting the fact that demand for postal services was changing. There needed to be some post office closures to ensure the financial integrity of the network as a whole. We had invested a significant amount of extra money into Royal Mail in recent years but operational decisions about exactly which post offices were effected was a matter for Royal Mail, not the Government.

Asked if the Government could agree to the Mayor’s suggestions regarding airport expansions, the PMS replied that the journalist probably already knew the Prime Minister’s position concerning the third runway and probably knew it when he asked the question.

Asked if the Prime Minister would listen to the Mayor’s views regarding nuclear power, the PMS replied that this was another question to which the journalist probably knew the answer.

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