Downing Street Says » Court Martial

» Thursday, January 20, 2005

Court Martial

Asked if the Prime Minister felt he had been given wrong advice from the Speaker regarding the court martial, the PMOS said the judge’s comments recognised that the Prime Minister had to respond to questions. What the Prime Minister did do was expressed his remarks in a general, rather than a particular way, having consulted the Speaker’s office beforehand to ensure we all had the same legal understanding. Equally, we recognised that we had to be very careful about what was said, and hoped everyone who was involved took note of what the judge had said.

Asked if the Prime Minister had taken any legal advice, the PMOS said one would expect the Prime Minister to take all relevant advice.

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.