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» Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Immigration Speech

Asked about the Prime Minister’s speech, the PMS said that immigration was one of the most important issues of public policy and therefore it was entirely appropriate that the Prime Minister made the speech.

Put that the Prime Minister had made a speech on Afghanistan last week and was this the next in a series of speeches, the PMS said that was not the case. The Afghanistan speech last week was timely for a number of reasons, particularly as we were close to the inauguration of President Karzai.

Asked if this was the Prime Minister’s first speech on immigration since moving into No10, the PMS said that he would check. Asked if this was a response to Nick Griffin appearing on Question Time, the PMS said that there was no suggestion that this was in response to that.

Asked if it was in response to Alan Johnson saying that immigration policy had been maladroit, the PMS said it was not.

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