» Friday, March 20, 2009

Assisted suicide

Asked whether the Prime Minister was sympathetic towards the proposed amendments to the Coroner’s Criminal Justice Bill, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that the Government’s position was that we believed that any change in the law in this area was an issue for individual MP’s and a matter for parliament to […]

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Northern Rock

Asked whether the Prime Minister regretted not introducing a system to combat the collapse of a banking institution, the PMS replied that if people read the report closely, the relevant pages stated clearly that work on dealing specifically with the scenario of a major financial institution getting into difficulty for liquidity reasons had been ongoing. […]

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Protectionism

Put that Renault had moved 400 jobs from Slovenia back to France and was the Prime Minister concerned that his message on protectionism was falling on deaf ears, the PMS said he wouldn’t comment in detail on any particular moves by a foreign commercial organisation and how it ran its workforce. The Prime Minister, as […]

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Misc

Asked if people could expect any announcements from Lord Mandelson or John Denham today, the PMS said that John Denham’s speech was about support that entrepreneurs received and there was no announcement anticipated from Lord Mandelson. Asked whether the position on LDV remained the same, the PMS confirmed that it did remain the same. Asked […]

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