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Asked, as the Prime Minister’s newly anointed spokesman on police inquiries whether the Prime Minister, or anyone in his office, had been questioned by the police the PMOS replied that he was glad to hear of his appointment and in this role he had nothing new to say.

Asked if Downing Street would announce when the Prime Minister had been spoken to by the police, the PMOS said, as he had always said, that he would not give a running commentary on any body else being questioned, with one exception, but if with that one exception there was a change then he would notify the journalists of that change. Asked if any date had been discussed when the Prime Minister would be speaking to the police and if the Prime Minister would refer to the PMOS in doing so, the PMOS replied that he had nothing new to report in any way in that regard.

Asked if, from what the Prime Minister had said at the monthly press conference that morning that it could be understood that the Attorney General was still going to insist on remaining in the frame as far as the decision was concerned, the PMOS said that he would not comment on the police investigation as he had always maintained. This was a police investigation so we should not get ahead of ourselves and we should let the police do their work.

Asked if Jonathan Powell, had been interviewed by the police the PMOS said that he would not comment on any civil servant, temporary or otherwise. Asked how then should the lobby seek to obtain information on Jonathan Powell the PMOS again said that it was a normal police investigation and that the question would not normally be asked in a normal police investigation. Asked if there was any alarm or concern in Downing Street over the leaking of emails, the PMOS replied that anything to do with the inquiry was a matter for the police and he would not comment.

Asked if the comments made by the shadow Attorney General that it was a long standing principle of the Attorney General if there was a conflict of interests he would stand aside and he was surprised that the Attorney General had not done so, the PMOS said he did not comment on police investigations. Put that it was a question not related to the investigation but a point of governmental procedure the PMOS replied that the journalists question was based on hypotheses about the nature and progression of a police investigation.

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