» Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Budget
Asked to give a sense of how much input the Prime Minister had on this Budget, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) replied that obviously the Prime Minister had been consulted, as you would expect, but no more or no less than any other Government announcement of this significance. Asked if it was a new tradition […]
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Britishness
Asked about the possibility of introducing a Britishness Bank Holiday, the PMS replied that our general position on the Goldsmith Review, as we said this morning, was that the Prime Minister was very sympathetic to the underlying principles of the Goldsmith Review. He thought it was important that we did more as a country to […]
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Cabinet
The Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) began by telling the assembled press that it was a slightly shorter Cabinet than usual; there would be another meeting of Cabinet tomorrow to discuss the Budget. The main items discussed at Cabinet that morning had been the environment, on the back of a presentation by Hilary Benn, a brief […]
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Corporation Tax
Asked if the Prime Minister thought it would help schemes such as the National Enterprise Academy if the rate of corporation tax for small businesses was cut, the PMS replied that the Government had made a lot of changes to the tax system since 1997, which had had a significant impact on promoting enterprise. As […]
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Citizenship
Asked what the Prime Minister’s view was on teenagers swearing an oath of allegiance to the Queen, the PMS said that the Prime Minister’s view was that he very much welcomed Lord Goldsmith’s review of Citizenship; it had a number of interesting proposals in it, including this one and no doubt there would be a […]
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MP’s Expenses
Asked if the Prime Minister thought today’s recommendations were a step in the right direction, the PMS said that as we had consistently made clear, the Prime Minister would welcome any step towards greater transparency of MP’s expenses. Put that the Prime Minister should voluntarily publish a full breakdown of his own expenses, the PMS […]
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Sentencing
Asked if the Prime Minister agreed that judges and magistrates had overacted to high profile cases when it came to sentencing, the PMS said that Lord Phillips was proposing new sentencing guidelines that had been circulated in recent days. Sentencing in individual cases was a matter for the courts and was for judges to decide. […]
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Madam Tussauds
Asked about the waxwork situation, the PMS said we had always been very clear about the situation and were slightly baffled by some of the reports yesterday. As the letter we had released to the media made clear, we received a request from Madam Tussauds just last week for the Prime Minister to pose for […]
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