» Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Tony Blair
Asked whether the Prime Minister agreed with Glenys Kinnock that Tony Blair was the official Government candidate for the Presidency of the European Council, the Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that the position on this was that we had always made clear that if Tony Blair chose to stand for President […]
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Afghanistan
Asked about the Government s helicopter review and when it was likely to be published, the PMS replied that it was not a helicopter review; this would be a review that would be looking at some of the longer term issues around defence procurement. It had a much more longer term focus than appeared to […]
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Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Asked what to expect from the report tomorrow, the PMS said that people should expect a fleshing out of the issues that the Prime Minister addressed in his speech on the 17th March, particularly around what could be done to ensuring that those countries who wanted access to civil nuclear power got access to it, […]
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Misc
Asked if the Prime Minister was happy that a Foreign Office Minister was publicising a Don t be a Dick policy for holiday-makers this summer, the PMS said that it was important when trying to target particular groups in society that you captured their attention and that had clearly been the case in this particular […]
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Afghanistan
Asked for the Prime Minister s reaction to General Dannatt s comments on the Today Programme this morning, the Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) said that in the Prime Minister s view we needed to see more burden sharing and more troops from other NATO members. We were training up the Afghan army so that […]
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Ministers
Asked if the Prime Minister felt that bringing in outsiders as Ministers was a success given the departure of Lord Darzi and Lord Malloch-Brown and asked when replacements for those two vacancies would be announced, the PMS said that both Lord Darzi and Lord Malloch-Brown would remain Ministers until the summer recess and we would […]
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» Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Single Currency
Put that the Business Secretary seemed to have ruled out membership of the single currency, the Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) said that the Government s position on the single currency remained the same; we had five economic tests and at every Budget we assessed whether or not there had been sufficient progress on the […]
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Assisted Dying
Asked what the Prime Minister s position was on assisted dying, the PMS said that the Prime Minister last said something about assisted dying in an interview he did in December when he said that he was not in favour of a change in legislation. original source.
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Afghanistan
Asked if the Prime Minister had made any contact with any of the relatives of soldiers killed in Afghanistan, the PMS said that we did not tend to make an issue of such things but it was the Prime Minister s practise to write personally to the families of every soldier who dies whilst on […]
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Non-Proliferation
Asked about the non-proliferation document being published this Thursday, the PMS said it was a Government document and that the Cabinet Office was the lead department. The purpose was to set out the issues as we saw them ahead of the non-proliferation conference next March that would be chaired by President Obama. Put that the […]
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