» Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Meetings/Prime Minister’s mood

Asked if the Prime Minister had cancelled any meetings today, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) said that today’s scheduled visit had been cancelled after advice, but no other meetings had been cancelled. The Prime Minister was relaxed and getting on with the job. He had a busy schedule and was focussed on the key priorities. […]

Briefing took place at 15:45 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)

Weather

The Prime Minister’s Spokesman started by saying that these were exceptional weather conditions but we were working extremely hard to minimise the disruption caused. The Highways Agency had its fleet of 500 salt spreaders and snow ploughs out in force and had been successful in keeping the vast majority of the major road network running, […]

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

Regional cabinet

Put that there had been complaints in one of the papers today about the cost of regional Cabinet meetings and asked if the Prime Minister was confident that they were a good use of public money, the PMS said that the Prime Minister and the Cabinet believed that this was an extremely good way of […]

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

Security

Asked if the Prime Minister was aware of concerns from airport operators that security upgrades had been imposed on them too quickly, the PMS said that this was an important part of the response that the Government was making to the terrorist incident that happened over Christmas and whatever we did would be in collaboration […]

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

MPs’ expenses

Put that the chairman of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority had said that he would drop some of the original proposals put forward by Sir Christopher Kelly, the PMS said that the Prime Minister’s view had always been that we needed to move away as quickly as possible from the old system to the new […]

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

Miscellaneous

Asked what the Prime Minister had offered Lord Mandelson to make him become so effusive about the Pre Budget Report (PBR), the PMS said that he had not seen what was being referred to but the Cabinet was completely united in ensuring that the policies set out in the PBR were implemented. original source.

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

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