» Thursday, December 4, 2008
Frank Cocaine Campaign
Asked what the campaign was, the Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that it was a Home Office campaign, warning people of the dangers of using cocaine. original source.
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Heathrow
Asked why the Government had postponed its decision on Heathrow, the PMS replied that as he had said this morning, we had conducted two consultation exercises on the proposed third runway at Heathrow and there was a considerable amount of data and information that needed to be analysed. This would enable us to take a […]
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Speaker of the House
Put that the Prime Minister had said that he had full confidence in the Speaker, the PMS replied that as he had said this morning, it was the Prime Minister s view that we should all support the Speaker s decision to review the rules so that MP s could continue to do their jobs […]
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Mortgage Announcement
Asked why he thought it was that the eight organisations mentioned by the Prime Minister seemed to be caught on the hop by the announcement, the PMS said that that would be the journalist s description. The comments made by the companies publicly on the repossessions announcement were very supportive. The Government was responding to […]
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DNA Database
Asked if the Government would be reviewing the DNA database system following the decision made by the European Court of Human Rights this morning, the Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) replied that the Home Secretary had already said that the existing law would remain in place while we considered the judgement. Asked if the Prime […]
Briefing took place at 11:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)
Speaker of the House of Commons
Asked if the Prime Minister had confidence in the Speaker of the House of Commons, the PMS said yes. Asked why, the PMS replied that the Prime Minister believed that we should support the Speaker s decision to review the rules so that MPs could continue to do their job, while ensuring that no one […]
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Meeting with the Prime Minister of Ireland
Asked about the Prime Minister s meeting with the Irish Prime Minister, the PMS said that they met this morning for about 45 minutes and discussed the forthcoming European Council, in particular handling the global economic downturn. They also discussed developments in Northern Ireland. The Irish Prime Minister would report to the European Council on […]
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Meeting with President Kagame of Rwanda
Asked about the Prime Minister s meeting with President Kagame, the PMS said that they would discuss the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, issues relating to regional security and what more the UK and the international community could do to preserve peace in the region. Asked if the subject of Zimbabwe came up, […]
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Mortgage Scheme
Asked which of the 8 banks supposedly taking part in the scheme still didn t support the measures announced, the PMS said that from what he had seen all the 8 banks had come out in favour of the measures that we set out yesterday. Asked if the banks had signed off in principal to […]
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Heathrow
Asked why there had been a delay in making a decision regarding Heathrow, the PMS said that this was a decision of enormous national and regional importance and as such it was important that we made the right decision. We had had two public consultations, the most recent one ending on 9 November, and there […]
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