» Wednesday, March 22, 2006Peerages Investigation
Asked if there had been any contact between No10 and the Met Police regarding their investigation into cash for peerages, the PMOS replied not that he was aware of. Briefing took place at 14:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0) Budget
Asked for the Prime Minister's reaction to the budget, the PMOS said the budget delivered on the government's agenda and priorities. Briefing took place at 14:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0) David Cameron meeting
Asked if there were any dates for a meeting between the Prime Minister and David Cameron, the PMOS replied that the offices were in contact. Briefing took place at 14:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0) Police Inquiry
Asked, again, if there had been any contact between the Metropolitan Police and Downing Street, the PMOS said that he was not aware of any at this stage. Briefing took place at 14:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0) Jack Straw statement-terrorism
Asked about Jack Straw's comments during his statement yesterday regarding British nationals being caught up overseas in terrorist attacks and the financial support offered to them, and was he disagreeing with the Prime Minister about it not being an everyday occurrence, the PMOS said that unfortunately, terrorism was a fact of life in the modern world. In terms of incidents directly affecting British people abroad, the Foreign Secretary was correct, and fortunately, it was not an everyday occurrence. That did not mean, however, that when it did happen to those individuals, it did not have a devastating impact, as it did, and the Foreign Secretary had acknowledged that fact. As the Prime Minister pointed out yesterday, terrorism affected some 30 to 40 other countries as well, therefore nothing that the Foreign Secretary had said cut across what the Prime Minister had said. Briefing took place at 14:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0) Duchy of Lancaster
Asked if a new Duchy of Lancaster could be expected before tomorrow evening, the PMOS said that his focus would be on the European Council and the trip after that. In response to the suggestion that we did not really need one now, the PMOS said that that reshuffle question had such a thin veneer on it that the journalist was in danger of being hauled up on the trade descriptions act. Briefing took place at 14:00 | Read whole briefing | Comment (1) Next Foreign Policy Speech
Asked about the second speech, the PMOS said that it would primarily focus on the importance of global alliances and clearly Australia was part of that given their role in Iraq. Briefing took place at 14:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0) » Tuesday, March 21, 2006Prime Minister’s Speech
Asked what the key message in this speech was, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said that the speech was titled "Not a Clash of Civilisations, But Rather a Clash About Civilisation." The Prime Minister's argument was that we had to be prepared to take on extremism both at home and overseas and first and foremost confront the ideas behind it. We had to confront the absurd anti-Americanism, confront the feudal view of governance, confront anti-feminism and confront hostility to other religions and so on. At the same time whilst we had to do all we could to take on those issues, we also had take on, politically, issues such as Palestine, environmental degradation, injustice and poverty. Briefing took place at 13:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0) Prime Minister’s Speech at Canary Wharf
The Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) briefed journalists about the speech that the Prime Minister would be making later today. The PMOS said that it was the first of three speeches the Prime Minister would be giving on his and the Government's approach to foreign policy. Briefing took place at 13:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0) Party Funding
Put to him that Charles Clarke had said that the fact that Jack Dromey had not known about some of the loans to the Labour party raised serious questions about his capacity as party treasurer, the PMOS said that that was entirely a matter for the Labour party. Briefing took place at 13:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0) 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. |
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