» Monday, November 3, 2008

Gulf Trip

The Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) began by giving details of the Prime Minister s visit to the Gulf so far. The Prime Minister was in Qatar this morning where he visited a gas field, and the Shell Gas to Liquids project. Qatar could potentially provide up to 20% of British gas in the years […]

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Interest Rates

Asked about interest rates being passed on to customers, the PMS replied that when official rates were cut consumers would expect to see the benefit, but at the moment we were seeing difficulties in the inter-bank market and that was what we were trying to address. By addressing the root cause of the problem, the […]

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US Elections

Asked if the words in the Prime Minister s speech on America indicated that he thought there would be a vacuum in leadership after the Presidential election, and would the President-elect attend the meeting on the 15th November, the PMS replied that the second point was really a matter for the Americans to decide who […]

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Oil Prices

Asked about the stability of oil prices, and if the Prime Minister would be making any representations to the oil producers to get the price down, the PMS replied that what the Prime Minister had been saying to the oil producing nations whilst he had been in the region, was that it was in nobody […]

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