» Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Home Office

The Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) told journalists that John Reid would be sending a letter to the chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee about some of the evidence that he gave yesterday.

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Football Reception

Asked what the reception was about, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said that it was for UNICEF/Socceraid and guests would be the Socceraid players and UNICEF representatives.

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Washington trip

Asked what the Prime Minister might discuss with President Bush and what was likely to be in his speech, the PMOS said that they would discuss the Doha round of trade talks, the Middle East Peace Process, particularly after Prime Minister Olmert's visit to Washington yesterday, and Iran. The starting point of the speech would be the Prime Minister's impressions from Baghdad this week and the implications for the international community to come behind the democratically elected government of Iraq. The theme of the speech would come out of Iraq to talk about how you applied the global values that the Prime Minister had spoken about in his speech in Australia and to develop his thinking in terms of how the institutions of the world needed to be updated from how they were designed immediately after World War II immediately into the modern setting, to deal with modern challenges.

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Mrs Blair

Asked by ITN whether Mrs Blair was going to apologise for signing a copy of the Hutton report, the PMOS said that it had been at a Labour Party related event so it would be wrong for him to comment.

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President Mbeki

Asked what the Prime Minister had discussed with the President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki, the PMOS said that part of it was about the joint launch of the plan to help Southern Africa as a whole in terms of trade. However they would also cover issues such as trade, where South Africa was one of the main players in terms of negotiations on a WTO level, also the Middle East where South Africa traditionally had links with the Palestinian side and so on. He expected Zimbabwe would also come up in some way.

Briefing took place at 16:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)

Chevening

Asked why Jack Straw was keeping Chevening, the PMOS said that he was not. Even the Independent's political editor said their diary had been wrong. For the record it had been agreed on the day of the reshuffle that Jack Straw would leave and Margaret Beckett would take over given Chevening's traditional relationship with the Foreign Office. Asked if Jack Straw would now share Dorneywood, the PMOS said there were no plans for him to do so.

Briefing took place at 16:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)

Other business

Asked why we didn't just apologise over the auction of a signed copy of the Hutton report, the PMOS said that it was a matter for the Labour party and it would be entirely wrong for him to get involved. The Prime Minister had spoken about this matter at PMQs and he would refer people to that.

Briefing took place at 16:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)

UNICEF Soccer Aid Event

Asked for a cast list for the UNICEF Soccer aid event, the PMOS said that it would comprise of the following:

Briefing took place at 16:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)

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