» Thursday, January 7, 2010

Weather

The Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) began by giving an update on the severe weather across the UK by saying it had been the worst weather conditions in thirty years and that the Prime Minister had been updated constantly on the situation and made a number of calls on the issue throughout the day including Lord […]

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Prime Minister’s regional tour

The Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) began by saying that the Prime Minister had planned to pick-up his regional tour later today. However, having taken into account the poor weather conditions, the desire not to divert the attentions of the local police and authorities who were focussed on helping people deal with the snow and ice, […]

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Phone calls

The PMS said that the Prime Minister spoke to President Karzai yesterday. During the call they discussed preparations for the London Conference on Afghanistan, to be held in London on 28 January. President Karzai updated the Prime Minister on planning to build up the Afghan army and police, on improving local and national governance and […]

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Weather

The PMS said that these remained exceptional weather conditions. The Prime Minister continued to be updated regularly on the situation. The Prime Minister and Lord Adonis visited the London Local Authority Coordination Centre yesterday afternoon to see for themselves the work of many agencies and emergency services. Both he and Lord Adonis praised the work […]

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Ballot letter

Asked if the Prime Minister believed he had the full confidence of all the members of his Cabinet, the PMS said yes he did and that the Prime Minister was relaxed and completely focussed on the Government’s strategies and priorities. The Prime Minister was of course in touch with Cabinet colleagues on Government business as […]

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Growth strategy

Asked if the Government’s policy would really be discussed at the Growth Strategy launch in the afternoon and if the Prime Minster still had the authority to drive through priorities such as this, the PMS said that there was no link between the last twenty four hours news coverage and the Growth Strategy event – […]

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» 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. […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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