» Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross

Put that people had been calling for a proper apology from Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross, the Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that Ofcom had said they would investigate and it was for the BBC and their governing bodies to decide on what action needed to be taken. Asked whether the […]

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IMF Proposals

Put that the Prime Minister had called for a substantial increase in the amount of funding available to the IMF and could the PMS give any guidance as to what substantial meant, the PMS replied that the exact scale of the funding was something that we would be discussing with our international partners in the […]

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HIP’s

Put that Margaret Beckett had said today that HIP s were not living up to their potential and did this mean that they would be scrapped or changed in some way, the PMS said he had not seen the comments so could not comment in detail. original source.

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Cabinet

The Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) began with an update on Cabinet this morning. There was a presentation from Jack Straw on the ongoing work on the Bill of Rights; an update from John Hutton following on from his visits to Afghanistan and Iraq; an update from the Foreign Secretary on Zimbabwe and an update […]

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

Energy/Oil

Asked how disappointed the Prime Minister was about the suggestion from OPEC that they would not attend the oil summit in London in December, the PMS repeated what we had said at the end of last week; the meeting following the Jeddah format in December was suggested before the current period of instability across the […]

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President Sarkozy

Asked what the Prime Minister would be discussing with President Sarkozy this afternoon, the PMS said that they would discuss the international economic situation. The purpose of the meeting was to take stock of where we stood on the reform of the international financial system, ahead of the European Council Meeting next Friday and the […]

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

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