Asked if the economy was discussed at the Prime Minister s event this morning, the Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) replied that the Prime Minister, Jacqui Smith, and Hazel Blears were talking about the Government s crime agenda, and what the Government was doing to tackle crime, but obviously this broadened out into a wider discussion about what the Government was doing to help families and commu...

Asked about the Prime Minister s update on the economy at Cabinet, the PMS said that the Prime Minister explained the action that was being taken at international level, including by Alistair Darling and his colleagues at Ecofin today. The Prime Minister also reiterated the fact that the Government stood ready to take whatever action was necessary to get the country through this challenging period...

Asked whether the Prime Minister was feeling bruised after his interview, the PMS said that the Prime Minister felt it was very important that he was out there engaging with the public and explaining what the Government was doing. Of course, people were very concerned about what was happening in the economy and you would expect that to happen, but the Prime Minister certainly wouldn t shy away fro...

Asked whether the Prime Minister had had a discussion with Cabinet Ministers about him tiring of becoming the face of the recession, the PMS replied that that was not the view of the Prime Minister at all. The Prime Minister was absolutely clear that as the Prime Minister of the country it was very important that he showed leadership at this time, so he would continue to be out and about, explaini...

Asked what the agenda was for the meeting between the Prime Minister and Prime Minister Berlusconi, the PMS said it would be quite a wide-ranging meeting and probably quite informal. No doubt they would be discussing what was happening in the European economy and the global economy. They were also likely to discuss energy and how we can move towards reducing our dependency on oil, including by wor...

Asked how the Prime Minister thought the day was going, the PMS replied that the Prime Minister s view was that we were in very challenging and difficult economic times and we would continue to work very hard as a Government to do whatever was necessary to get the British economy through it. Asked whether the Prime Minister had lobbied for a coordinated rate cut, the PMS said that these were decis...

Asked what the Prime Minister and his Greek counterpart would be discussing, the PMS said they would be discussing the economy and the European response to the global financial situation. They were likely to touch on bilateral issues, including Cyprus. The Prime Minister had met the Cypriot Prime Minister last week when he was in Brussels. original source.

The Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) began by saying that the Prime Minister was delivering a speech at the CBI annual dinner tonight. The Prime Minister would speak without a script on the economy in the UK and internationally. The message in the speech would reiterate much of what the Chancellor said in his interview with the Times today. The Prime Minister would make clear that we continued to ...

Asked for details on the conference the Prime Minister referred to in his speech this morning, the Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) replied that the Prime Minister s view was that it would be a good idea for world leaders to get together, however it will be important that when they do get together they had something of substance to discuss. We were now clearly in a position where most of the major...

Asked if the Prime Minister had a favourite foreign Finance Minister, the Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) replied that if this was a thinly veiled attempt to get him to comment on the German Finance Minister s remarks, the Prime Minister was asked a similar question in an interview with London s LBC Radio this morning, and gave the following quote I do not really want to get involved in what is c...