» Tuesday, February 10, 2009
President Mugabe
Asked whether the Prime Minister had seen the reports that Robert Mugabe was planning to hold an extravagant 85th birthday party, the PMS said that we had seen these reports. We needed to look into the veracity of them, but clearly the Prime Minister’s views on President Mugabe and the excesses of his regime were […]
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» Monday, February 9, 2009
Walker Review
Asked about the timing and the difference between the Walker Review announced today and what the Financial Services Authority (FSA) was doing, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) said that the two were different. The FSA announced last June that they would look at the extent to which a financial institution’s pay and bonuses policy could […]
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Home Secretary
Asked for the Prime Minister’s view regarding Jacqui Smith’s expenses, the PMS said that the Home Secretary’s office had made a statement in response to this and had made it clear that the Home Secretary had always abided fully with Parliament’s clear rules on expenses, and that she had longstanding written approval from the Parliamentary […]
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» Friday, February 6, 2009
President Sarkozy
Asked what the Prime Minister s reaction was to the comments made by President Sarkozy, the Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that the Elysee had been in contact this morning to assure us that these remarks were not meant as a critique of UK economic policy. On the specifics of this, […]
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Car Scrapping
Put that 75% of cars in the UK were imported and wouldn t this measure help other countries rather than the UK, the PMS replied that Lord Mandelson had spoken about the measure in his speech last night. Scrappage schemes were an interesting idea and we needed to look at how they might work in […]
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Manufacturing Figures
Put that ONS figures released today showed a continuation of the decline in manufacturing and was there anything the Government could do to address this, the PMS said that these were undoubtedly difficult times and that was why the Government had brought forward the measures that we had over the last few months; to help […]
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Jeremy Clarkson
Asked repeatedly about the comments made by Jeremy Clarkson, the PMS said he would not get into a detailed discussion about those comments. Asked about the point Mr Clarkson had made about the Prime Minister not admitting he had got it wrong about the economy, the PMS said that Mr Clarkson was entitled to his […]
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Bank Bonuses
Asked if it was correct that the Prime Minister had the final say on bonuses in banks with a public stake or did that only apply to the top executives, the PMS said that as he had said yesterday, the Treasury were in discussion with the banks about remuneration structures as part of the wider […]
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Torture
Put that given we had established that the Obama administration had not issued a new threat to withdraw cooperation and given the extent of public outcry, was the Prime Minister considering requesting that the Americans release the information, the PMS said that David Miliband had set out our position on this quite clearly yesterday and […]
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Tony Blair
Asked how incandescent the Prime Minister was that Tony Blair had met the new President, the PMS replied that Tony Blair was the Quartet Envoy and it was important for the Quartet and important for UK interests that he had a close relationship with the US administration. original source.
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