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» Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Iraq

Put that it had been repeatedly said that the Prime Minister would make an announcement about troop withdrawals from Iraq to Parliament first, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) said that the Prime Minister will be making a full statement to Parliament at the beginning of next week. What he had set out today followed his meeting with the Iraqi Prime Minister, at which the intention to withdraw troops in the numbers set out had been discussed. However, the statement at the beginning of next week will be a full statement setting out further detail and also looking at the broader picture more generally. The PMS said that understandably following the Prime Minister’s meeting with the Iraqi Prime Minister, at which this very issue was discussed, it was appropriate that information should be shared in this way.

Put that there were suggestions of 2000 troops being withdrawn and that General Petraeus was unhappy about this, the PMS referred to what the Prime Minister had said today, and referred people to his statement next week, as well as the reasons set out for the decisions on troop numbers, which followed on from his meetings with the Iraqi Prime Minister and others, including General Petraeus, today.

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Same New Labour spin and crap. Nothing changes. Ming Campbell is the only senior politician with an iota of integrity about him.
Comment by T Blair — 2 Oct 2007 on 8:14 pm | Link

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