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Cabinet

The Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) said that the Chief Whip and Leader of the House had updated Cabinet on Parliamentary business and that Ed Miliband gave a presentation on climate change. He said that this was a global challenge and the UK represented 2% of global emissions. There were strong moral and economic arguments driving the discussion in the run up to Copenhagen; developed countries should lead but developing countries represented 90% of future emissions growth.

Liam Byrne gave a brief update on Smarter Government; a document would be published next week.

The Foreign Secretary updated Cabinet on the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and Afghanistan, and the Prime Minister informed the Cabinet of his conversation with President Obama last night.

In a general discussion about Afghanistan the Prime Minister talked about the importance of tying down the commitments from President Karzai and re-emphasised the importance of the summit in January. The discussion also included the importance of working directly with Afghan people and the Foreign Secretary emphasised the importance of burden sharing.

There was also a discussion of the British yachtsmen who were being detained in Iran. The Foreign Secretary told Cabinet that we were doing all we could to get them out, but as far as we knew they were being treated well. Our Foreign Office, led by the Ambassador, was working hard to make sure we could secure their release.

At the end of Cabinet there was a presentation from three young people who had won a competition to present to Cabinet their ideas about tackling the dominant problems in society.

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