» Monday, May 8, 2006

Prime Minister

Put that the Prime Minister had said today that he wanted to give his successor time to "bed in" and did this mean that he would now not serve a full third term, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said if people looked back at what the Prime Minister actually had said on the day that he announced that he would not be fighting a fourth election, he clearly indicated then that obviously, the hand over was a matter that would be have to be dealt with. The Prime Minister had said consistently now since the General Election that he wanted to hand over in an orderly way, and he was saying nothing different today.

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Minister briefings

Put that as the Ministers involved in the briefings this week would only have been in their jobs for a few days, were the briefings therefore what the Prime Minister thought instead, the PMOS said that in terms of setting out the priorities and how they were to be implemented, it was a work in progress. It would therefore be very much their take and the Prime Minister's on what their priorities were. 

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French Prime Minister

Asked for more information about the Prime Minister's dinner with Prime Minister de Villepin later this week, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said that we had regular meetings with the French Prime Minister, and this was one of those.

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Basra

Asked if the recent events in Basra could be seen as a message from Iran on the eve of the meeting in New York, the PMOS said that we saw it for what it was, which was a deeply regrettable incident which resulted in the deaths of five British personnel. The best place to go for an update for it was Des Browne's statement.

Briefing took place at 8:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)

Foreign Prisoners

Put that the new Home Secretary had announced today that there could be "several hundred" more serious prisoners still in Britain, and was this the reason that Charles Clarke had to go, the PMOS said that in terms of the figures, there were certain strict criteria as to what came under the "serious offenders" category. We had identified 90 of those, and the rest of the 1023 figure had now taken it up to last week to 150. Secondly, in terms of an investigation why the figures had increased, the PMOS explained it was precisely because the Home Office was interrogating the figures in a more detailed way that in the past.

Briefing took place at 8:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)

Pensions White Paper

Asked if the Pensions White Paper was about implementing the Turner Report, the PMOS said that people had known that our approach to the Turner Report had been one of welcome, while investigating the detail. People should wait for the detail, but our general approach had been of welcome.

Briefing took place at 8:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)

Communities and Local Government

Asked if Race Relations had been moved to Ruth Kelly's department, the PMOS said that it made sense, because the title of her department was now Communities and Local Government. Communities involved relations between and within different elements of the community.

Briefing took place at 8:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)

Geoff Hoon

Asked if it was ever the case that Geoff Hoon's job was ever a Secretary of State position, the PMOS said that it was not.

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