» Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Football

Asked what the PM had said in the clip re his meeting with Sepp Blatter, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) said that he had had a very constructive meeting; we were hopeful that the FIFA Committee would allow European countries to bid for the 2018 World Cup. He also said, as he had said before, […]

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Capital Gains Tax

Put that Digby Jones had said that the business community thought the CGT changes were a terrible thing and that he would raise these concerns with Chancellor, the PMS said that he had not seen the comments and would not want to say anything about comments he had not seen. He added that the Chancellor […]

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British Business Council

Asked if the Prime Minister had anything specific to say to the Business Council or if it was a purely listening event, the PMS said it was the first meeting of the Council and there would be a discussion about some of the longer-term policy areas that would effect the future economic competitiveness of Britain. […]

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President Karzai/Afghanistan

Asked what the message to President Karzai would be tomorrow, the PMS said that, in relation to Afghanistan, we had always made clear our long-term commitments and there was no more to say in advance of tomorrow’s meeting; there would be media afterwards. Put that security would be uppermost on the agenda, it was asked […]

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Scottish Elections

Asked if it was the case that the Government had accepted and apologised for mistakes that were made but was rejecting the charge made by the Gould report that mistakes were made for partisan purposes, the PMS said that the Gould report did not say that. If you looked at what the Gould report said […]

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School Balances

Put that, from the Prime Minister’s answers at PMQs, he was sympathetic to head teachers re the retrospective nature of the proposals which were aired earlier this year, the PMS said that, as the Prime Minister had said at PMQs, we would listen to the issues raised in the consultation. The consultation was ongoing and […]

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PMQs

Had there been any contact between Downing St and the Speaker’s office after PMQs, the PMS said there had not been as far as he was aware. Asked what the Prime Minister thought of the loutish behaviour of his PPS, the PMS said it was best if the PPS addressed that issue. original source.

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Renewables

Put that if there was no national commitment to reach the 20 per cent renewables target by 2020 it was asked why David Miliband had said last year that there would be 20 per cent target re electricity renewable supply by 2020, the PMS said that there were two separate points; one was that there […]

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Scottish Elections

Asked if the Prime Minister had full confidence in Douglas Alexander, the Prime Minister’s Official Spokesman (PMS) replied that the Prime Minister did have full confidence in Douglas Alexander. Asked why, the PMS replied that the Scottish Secretary Des Browne set out the Government’s response yesterday to the Gould Report. As Ron Gould made clear […]

Briefing took place at 11:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)

Foreign Prisoners

Asked for the Prime Minister’s explanation of the state of play with foreign prisoners, and what was the Government doing to get rid them, the PMS replied that the Prime Minister’s general position on this was that two years ago 1,500 prisoners were deported, last year 2,500 prisoners were deported, this year so far we […]

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