» Wednesday, March 10, 2010

President Sarkozy visit

Asked what would be on the menu when the Prime Minister had lunch with President Sarkozy, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) said we didn’t publish the menu as a matter of course, but if we could offer some guidance we would do. Asked whether Greece would be on the agenda in the meeting, the PMS […]

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Match of the Day

Asked for more details on the proposed bid for the Prime Minister to appear on Match of the Day 2, the PMS replied that he had seen the reports. The PMS said that if the Prime Minister was not appearing, it could be due to the fact that certain programmes would not accept one political […]

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Budget

Asked if the decision to announce the date of the Budget today had been taken previous to the week’s first press briefing where a journalist raised a question about the timing of the announcement, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) said that it was for the Chancellor to decide the timing of the Budget announcement and […]

Briefing took place at 10:00 | Read whole briefing | Comments (0)

Afghanistan

Asked about the Foreign Secretary’s speech on Afghanistan and put that the inclusion of the Taliban in the reconciliation process would inevitably result in a changed constitution in Afghanistan, which would make it less democratic, the PMS said that people would have to wait for the Foreign Secretary’s speech for the detail, but he would […]

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Misc

Put that in regards to the announcement on the Government Job Centre application, not many unemployed people had iPhones, the PMS said that the Government was responding to the opportunity that this new technology presented. A number of people who were looking for work no longer needed to rely on physically going to Job Centres […]

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