» Wednesday, May 27, 2009BurmaThe Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) began by giving out a message of support from the Prime Minister in the run up to Aung San Suu Kyi’s 64th birthday. On Burma more generally, the PMS said that we remained deeply concerned about the situation. The Prime Minister had spoken to the UN Secretary General about this […] Briefing took place at 11:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0) MPs’ expenses/Parliamentary reformPut that the Prime Minister had said in his article in the Independent that voters should have the chance to kick out corrupt politicians and what mechanism would he like to see used, the PMS replied that clearly there would have to be a debate about all of these issues in the weeks and months […] Briefing took place at 11:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0) VauxhallAsked if the Government was satisfied with the input it had had into the German government’s decision on Opal and whether the EIB was expected to be involved in any discussions, the PMS said that these were specific questions on matters that were commercially confidential. Lord Mandelson had issued a statement on this and made […] Briefing took place at 11:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0) North KoreaAsked whether the Prime Minister was concerned about the latest announcement from North Korea, the PMS said that we were concerned about this. This was clearly a further unnecessary and provocative act by the North Korean government, which would do nothing to advance the prospect of regional security and would only serve to isolate the […] Briefing took place at 11:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0) D-DayAsked if the Prime Minister had expressed any views at all on the decision by the French government to apparently not invite the Royal Family to the D-Day memorial, the PMS said that we simply did not recognise this story in today’s Daily Mail. The Prime Minister had been invited to D-Day commemorations on the […] Briefing took place at 11:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0) FootballAsked if the Prime Minister would be watching the match tonight, the PMS said that the Prime Minister expected and looked forward to watching the match later today when he returned to Downing Street from his visit. Asked if he had sent a message of goodwill, the PMS said that it went without saying that […] Briefing took place at 11:00 | Read whole briefing | Comment (1) 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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