» Monday, April 21, 2008

Meeting with President of the African National Congress

Asked if anything could be said about the Prime Minister’s meeting with President Jacob Zuma of the African National Congress (ANC), the PMS replied that there was not much he wanted to say ahead of the meeting on Wednesday. Jacob Zuma was in London this week and had asked if he could see the Prime […]

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10p tax

Asked if the Prime Minister would regard a vote on the Budget as a confidence issue, the PMS replied that at this stage the amendment had not been tabled so we would have to wait and see what happened in Parliament during the course of today and the rest of this week. Asked if the […]

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Northern Rock

Asked if the Prime Minister accepted that if the Government and the tri-partite authorities had acted earlier in providing support, the Northern Rock crisis could have been avoided, the PMS said that we would not accept that; the circumstances surrounding Northern Rock depended very much on the individual business model that had been pursued by […]

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Bank of England Liquidity

Asked why last week the had Prime Minister had denied plans to swap debts when asked about the subject, the PMS said that he thought that that question might come up and referred to the transcript of last week’s conversation in which the journalist’s specific question had been whether or not the Prime Minister could […]

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Misc

Asked why it was that the Prime Minister appeared to be so out of touch, the PMS said that he was not too sure whether that was a statement or a question and went on to say that the Prime Minister had been talking in Scotland that morning about many issues which affected millions of […]

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» Monday, April 14, 2008

Prime Minister’s meeting with City Leaders

Asked if the meeting tomorrow was the one the Prime Minister had referred to last week in his interview with the BBC, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) said no and that one of the Sunday papers had erroneously reported on this subject. The Chancellor would have a meeting with the Council of Mortgage Lenders and […]

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Goldman Sachs event

Asked what the event at Goldman Sachs was, the PMS replied that it was a Goldman Sachs private event, which the Prime Minister would be speaking at, and that his words may be released.Asked if a particular subject would be discussed, the PMS replied that they would discuss similar themes around the situation in the […]

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Economy

Asked if the Prime Minister accepted that his message regarding the economy was not getting through to people and that the public no longer had faith in him, the PMS replied that the Prime Minister’s view was that these were difficult times for the global economy and that the UK could not be insulated from […]

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Prime Minister’s mood

Asked how the PMS would categorise the Prime Minister’s mood this morning following a few days of difficult headlines, the PMS replied that he would categorise the Prime Minister’s mood as being entirely focused on the issues that were of concern to people in the country. At the moment that was the economy, as well […]

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Food prices

Asked if there would be any further actions regarding the food prices, the PMS said that this was clearly something that the Prime Minister and the Government was concerned about; the Prime Minister had written to the Head of G7 and the heads of major national organisations regarding the problems faced by food prices. It […]

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