» Thursday, November 13, 2008US VisitAsked whether the Prime Minister would be meeting Jim Leach or Madeleine Albright while he was in Washington, the Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that he was not aware of a separate scheduled meeting, but given that they were all attending the same G20 meeting, he would not rule it out. […] Briefing took place at 16:45 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0) Tessa JowellPut that Tessa Jowell had said that we would not have bid for the Olympics had we known the current economic conditions, the PMS said that Tessa Jowell had been speaking this afternoon to reiterate that what she had meant was that the economic context had changed and hypothetically, were we to be considering bidding […] Briefing took place at 16:45 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0) AfghanistanAsked about the Prime Minister s meeting with President Karzai, the Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) said that President Karzai began by praising the contribution that UK troops were making in Afghanistan, and offered his condolences on the news yesterday of the deaths of two Royal Marines. The Prime Minister and President Karzai discussed the […] Briefing took place at 11:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0) AfghanistanAsked about the Prime Minister s meeting with President Karzai, the Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) said that President Karzai began by praising the contribution that UK troops were making in Afghanistan, and offered his condolences on the news yesterday of the deaths of two Royal Marines. The Prime Minister and President Karzai discussed the […] Briefing took place at 11:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0) AfghanistanAsked about the Prime Minister s meeting with President Karzai, the Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) said that President Karzai began by praising the contribution that UK troops were making in Afghanistan, and offered his condolences on the news yesterday of the deaths of two Royal Marines. The Prime Minister and President Karzai discussed the […] Briefing took place at 11:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0) Job lossesAsked what the Prime Minister had to say to 10,000 BT staff facing job losses, the PMS said that the Prime Minister had great sympathy with people who were facing redundancy. Redundancy was a traumatic thing to experience, but as we had made clear yesterday, there were still considerable opportunities in the economy for people […] Briefing took place at 11:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0) Job lossesAsked what the Prime Minister had to say to 10,000 BT staff facing job losses, the PMS said that the Prime Minister had great sympathy with people who were facing redundancy. Redundancy was a traumatic thing to experience, but as we had made clear yesterday, there were still considerable opportunities in the economy for people […] Briefing took place at 11:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0) Job lossesAsked what the Prime Minister had to say to 10,000 BT staff facing job losses, the PMS said that the Prime Minister had great sympathy with people who were facing redundancy. Redundancy was a traumatic thing to experience, but as we had made clear yesterday, there were still considerable opportunities in the economy for people […] Briefing took place at 11:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0) MiscellaneousAsked about the strategy on coasting schools, the PMS said that coasting schools were described as such as they neither failed nor excelled. This particular strategy looked into how the Department for Children, Schools and Families could help schools to constantly improve their performance. Asked about the Post Office announcement today regarding card accounts, the […] Briefing took place at 11:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0) MiscellaneousAsked about the strategy on coasting schools, the PMS said that coasting schools were described as such as they neither failed nor excelled. This particular strategy looked into how the Department for Children, Schools and Families could help schools to constantly improve their performance. Asked about the Post Office announcement today regarding card accounts, the […] Briefing took place at 11:00 | 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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