Downing Street Says » Lockerbie

» Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Lockerbie

Asked for an idea of what the Prime Minister would say to the US Senators later on today, the PMS replied that the Prime Minister would be listening to their concerns and they had to say on the issue.

When asked if the Prime Minister would distance the national Government from the decision by the Scottish Government, the PMS said that the Prime Minister had been very clear about what his view was on the decision that was taken on Megrahi. The Prime Minister had completely disagreed with the decision made at the time and the PMS said the Prime Minister would be making that point to the Senators this evening.

The inquiry that looked at the decision made by the Scottish Government had shown that due process had been followed.

Asked about Daniel Kawczysnki’s calls for an inquiry into the release of Al-Megrahi, the PMS replied that there had already been an inquiry earlier this year into the Scottish Government’s decision, which found that due process had been followed. Since the decision had been made, a lot of information had been released through FOI and the previous Foreign Secretary had made a detailed statement to Parliament, setting out the findings and BP’s involvement.

On whether the Prime Minister felt that Mr MacAskill had made his decision in good faith, the PMS replied that the Prime Minister’s view was well known. As the Government had made clear yesterday, what we were not questioning was the right to make the decision.

Asked if the Prime Minister thought that the medical evidence on which Mr MacAskill based his decision was wrong, the PMS said that the Prime Minister’s view was well known.

Asked if the Prime Minister was focussed more on the medical advice that Mr MacAskill’s decision, the PMS replied that the key thing was that this was a decision made by the Scottish Government. The Prime Minister had not been the Prime Minister at the time but had expressed his view on the decision that was taken.

No Comments »

No comments yet.

RSS feed for comments on this post.

Post a public comment

Name (required)
E-mail (required)
(You must give an email address, but it will not be displayed to the public.)
Website
(You may give your website, and it will be displayed to the public.)

Comments:

This is not a way of contacting the Prime Minister. If you would like to contact the Prime Minister, go to the 10 Downing Street official site.

Privacy note: Shortly after posting, your name and comment will be displayed on the site. This means that people searching for your name on the Internet will be able to find and read your comment.

Original PMOS briefings are © Crown Copyright. Crown Copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen's Printer for Scotland. Click-use licence number C02W0004089. Material is reproduced from the original 10 Downing Street source, but may not be the most up-to-date version of the briefings, which might be revised at the original source. Users should check with the original source in case of revisions. Comments are © Copyright contributors. Everything else is © Copyright Downing Street Says.

July 2010

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

Sun

« Jun

Aug »

» Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Lockerbie

No Comments »

Post a public comment

Search

Supported by

Recent Briefings

Archives

Links

Syndicate (RSS/XML)

Credits

Enquiries