» Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Letter to Swedish Prime Minister

The Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) said that the Prime Minister had written to Swedish Prime Minister Reinfeldt in advance of the EU Council meeting at the end of this week in Brussels. The two Prime Ministers also spoke this afternoon and agreed that the issues of employment and the wider economic environment should be discussed […]

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Misc

Asked if the Prime Minister was concerned that the Territorial Army (TA) situation could end up like the Gurkha situation, the PMS said that the Prime Minister had made clear in his correspondence with the Leader of the Opposition and publicly that the priority for the TA was to ensure that those who were deployed […]

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Cabinet

The Prime Minister’s Spokesman said that the Chancellor gave an update to Cabinet on the economy and restated, in light of last week’s third quarter figures, that the judgement remained that we would return to growth towards the end of the year. The Chancellor also told the Cabinet that he had recently had discussions with […]

Briefing took place at 10:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)

EU Presidency/Council

Asked if the Foreign Secretary had discussed Tony Blair’s potential candidacy for EU President at Cabinet, the PMS said that the Foreign Secretary had not mentioned Tony Blair during his presentation. Asked if the Foreign Secretary mentioned the fact that the EU Council would be discussing preliminary ideas for the position of president, the PMS […]

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Misc

Asked if the Chancellor had given any explanation at Cabinet as to why the UK was coming out of recession behind other countries, the PMS said that we were ahead of other countries in terms of giving out GDP figures and different countries were at different stages in their own economic cycles so we did […]

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