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Royal Wedding

Put that the Prime Minister said he had first learned about this at the Cabinet meeting earlier in the day, and asked if this was correct or whether the Prime Minister had known that this was coming fairly imminently and that the morning’s news was just a confirmation, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman, (PMS), said that the first contact we had had on this matter was when a call came through during the Cabinet meeting, at around 1030.

Put that there was a view that the Queen should have informed the Prime Minister in advance for constitutional reasons, the PMS said he had explained what had happened and there were no issues with how the Palace had informed us.

Put that conspiracy theorists might say that the Prime Minister and others at Number 10 had known this was coming hence the conveniently timed announcement that Andrew Parsons was no longer going to be on the public payroll, the PMS replied that that was simply not the case.

Asked whether the Government would be consulted about the date of the wedding and whether the Government would try to avoid this happening over an electoral period, the PMS said that a cross-Government committee would be established to look at various issues around the wedding and organise security arrangements and policing.

Asked if there were any plans on how the wedding would be funded, the PMS said it had only been announced today and there would be consultations between the Palace and the Government.

Asked when the Prime Minister last had an audience with the Queen and when the next one was, the PMS said that the Prime Minister saw the Queen most weeks.

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IT IS A SAD SICK JOKE THAT THE TAXPAYER HAS TO PAY FOR A WEDDING OF THE RICHEST FAMILY IN ENGLAND!!

IF THEY GO AHEAD AND MAKE THE TAXPAYER FUND THIS POMP THEN I THINK THEY ARE MAKING COMPLETE FOOLS OF THEMSELVES.
Comment by LYNDA DAY — 19 Nov 2010 on 5:41 pm | Link

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