» Monday, January 9, 2006
Respect
Asked if there was anything further information about the "Respect" agenda tomorrow, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said that the important thing was that the Prime Minister would set out the broad picture in his speech in the morning. The PMOS told journalists that 16 Ministers in various regions around the country would highlight various aspects of the "Respect" agenda. This was a very practical action plan which was designed to help people with real problems at a real level. Therefore, what people should do was to judge it as a whole when they see it laid out tomorrow.
Briefing took place at 9:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)
Reshuffle
Asked if there was likely to be a reshuffle this week, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said he was not anticipating anything today. It would happen when it happened. His line on this had not changed since before Christmas.
Briefing took place at 9:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)
General Rose
Asked if there were any further thoughts about General Michael Rose's comments during a radio interview earlier today, the PMOS replied that the only additional comment to add from what he had said in the morning was that the turnout from the Iraqi elections had been 70%, not 68%.
Briefing took place at 9:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)
Smoking
Asked if the Prime Minister was going to allow a free vote on smoking in the health bill, the PMOS said that the position on smoking was as it had been before Christmas. Asked if the Prime Minister had been signalling in his Observer interview that he was relaxed about it, the PMOS said that what he had said in the Observer had echoed precisely what he had said at the press conference just before Christmas.
Briefing took place at 9:00 | Read whole briefing | Comment (1)
Leadership
Put to him that there had appeared to be a change in the Prime Minister's answer to the question by Andrew Marr about the length of his leadership when he had refused to reiterate the full third term phrase, the PMOS said that the Prime Minister's position remained the same. The Prime Minister had expressed that best himself.
Briefing took place at 9:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)
EU Constitution
Asked whether the Government thought the EU Constitution needed a drastic rewrite, the PMOS said that the period of reflection would continue until June. It was better to allow that to happen. The Prime Minister had set out in his FT article in June that he believed that the people of Europe actually wanted was for the leaders to concentrate, having now achieved the budget which was no small thing, on what mattered to them which was improving the economic performance of Europe, addressing issues such as energy, which was becoming more relevant by the day and which the Prime Minister, himself, had prefigured in Hampton Court by putting it firmly on the agenda.
Briefing took place at 9:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)
Respect Action Plan
Asked if the speech tomorrow was the main event, the PMOS said that the plan rolled together the work of seven Whitehall departments and would see sixteen Ministers travelling around the UK highlighting new policies. Asked whether there would be new policy announced, the PMOS said there would be genuine developments and people should judge them tomorrow. There would be new policy and measures that had pulled together work from seven departments.
Briefing took place at 9:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)
Iraq
Asked about General Rose's comments on the Today programme that the Prime Minister should be impeached, the PMOS said that General Rose was entitled to his view. Equally the Government was perfectly entitled to point out that there had been three democratic elections in Iraq last year for the first time in well over a generation.
Briefing took place at 9:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (2)
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.
Search
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| « Dec | Feb » | |||||
| 1 | ||||||
| 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
| 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
| 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 |
| 30 | 31 | |||||
Supported by
Recent Briefings
- Briefings are now secret.
- Syrian refugee resettlement
- Syria
- Scotland
- Independence referendum
- Trade Union Bill (No.2)
- Syria
- Northern Ireland
- Syria
- Syria
Archives
- December 2015
- September 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
- December 2006
- November 2006
- October 2006
- September 2006
- August 2006
- July 2006
- June 2006
- May 2006
- April 2006
- March 2006
- February 2006
- January 2006
- December 2005
- November 2005
- October 2005
- September 2005
- August 2005
- July 2005
- June 2005
- May 2005
- April 2005
- March 2005
- February 2005
- January 2005
- December 2004
- November 2004
- October 2004
- September 2004
- August 2004
- July 2004
- June 2004
- May 2004
- April 2004
- March 2004
- February 2004
- January 1970
- November 1900
- October 1900
- August 1900
- February 1900
- January 1900
- June 111
- May 111
- April 111
- March 111
- February 111
- January 111
- 111
- November 110
- October 110
- September 110
- August 110
- July 110
- June 110
- May 110
- April 110
- March 110
- February 110
- January 110
- 110
- November 109
- October 109
- September 109
- August 109
- June 109
- May 109
- 0
Links
Syndicate (RSS/XML)
Credits
Enquiries
Contact Sam Smith.