Downing Street

No electoral reform bill in Queen's speech, says Downing Street

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

This month's Queen's speech will not contain a bill to introduce reform of the voting system, Downing Street sources confirmed today. The package of measures will grant NHS patients new legal rights to maximum waiting times for elective surgery and urgent cancer referrals. Electoral reformers thought they had won agreement that a bill setting the direction for voting reform would be included...

Downing Street on back foot over Tobin tax

Financial Times (Free subscription) | yesterday

Downing Street was forced into a damage limitation exercise on a number of fronts on Monday, amid a palpable sense of frustration among Mr Brown's inner circle over the fallout from the weekend's Group of 20 finance ministers' meeting

Campaigners visit Downing Street

BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Campaigners fighting to keep two care homes open are to visit Downing Street with cardboard cutouts of residents.

Downing Street honour for nursery

Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

TEACHERS at a city nursery attended a reception at 10 Downing Street where their success in environmental education was honoured by the Prime Minister.

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Downing Street honour for nursery

News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

TEACHERS at a city nursery attended a reception at 10 Downing Street where their success in environmental education was honoured by the Prime Minister.

The Nutt case: Downing Street march

Dr Grumble (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

Apparently there is going to be a march of scientists on Downing Street on Sunday in order to call on the Government to back evidence-based drug policy by respecting and upholding the independence of the ACMD . Does anybody have any details? Do we just turn up? If so, when?

SuperBrown

Independence Home (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009

Ugh... Downing Street sources said Gordon Brown would be 'hitting the phones and speaking to member states' to campaign for Mr Blair. I suppose he will be following up a strong letter, before firing up the computer to wing off an e-mail! It's bad enough our UNELECTED Prime Minister broke his manifesto pledge ...

Brown attempts to steady the ship.

Tory Politico (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

Joseph Watts aka LobbyDog has picked up on a interesting little story regarding Gordon Brown. In a bid to steady the ship and get increasing rowdy the PLP on message Downing Street has being running a special series of meetings with MPs. According to Joseph the meetings have been organised on a region by region basis, [...]

Cartoon: Gordon's Afghanistan Strategy

The English Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

This cartoon by Christian Adams relates to the story about Gordon Brown's controversial letter of condolence to the mother of a soldier killed in Afghanistan. A soldier is reading a badly handwritten letter from Downing Street headed 'Afghanistan Strategy' (Downing...

Speech Debelle interview

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago

When Speech Debelle was plucked from obscurity to win this year's Mercury music prize and be guest of honour at Downing Street everyone was amazed by her overnight success - everyone that is but her.

PM Launches New Education Package

Dungeekin. . . (Free subscription) | yesterday

Brown Correspondence Course: "Hand-created training materials". Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to launch a new correspondence-based education package, according to Downing Street sources. A spokesman for No 10 said, "The Prime Minister is highly committed to improving standards of education at all levels across the country. Therefore, he feels that he has a great deal to offer,...

Exploiting Grief

Bob Piper (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago

... would not be aware that he took the time and trouble to do it. I can think of others in and around Downing Street in the past who would have made a good deal of publicity out of the gesture. Having said that, knowing the PM's shocking handwriting, someone in Downing Street should be checking the things. Whilst the grammar and spelling are not that important, getting the lad's name...

Making Matters Worse

Paul Owen (Free subscription) | yesterday

Unbelievably, as Paul Waugh points out, Downing Street, instead of just apologising profusely about the Jacqui Janes letter affair, is now counterattacking in the person of Peter Mandelson no less. You would have thought he would have more sense. But then the same is true of the whole Downing Street operation. Their line, such as it is, is that this is all a lot of fuss over nothing which...

Britain, Jordan urge Israeli settlement halt

France24 (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and King Abdullah II of Jordan called on Israel Tuesday to halt settlement activity on Palestinian land, a spokesman said after talks in London. "The PM and His Majesty ... expressed concern at the lack of progress and agreed that Israeli settlement activity should be halted," said the Downing Street spokesman. "They agreed to increase their...

Rallying the troops...

Lobbydog (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

It has come to Lobbydog’s attention that Downing Street is running a special series of meetings with MPs in a bid to rally the party and get the PLP on message. The meetings are taking place on a region by region basis, with all the Labour members from each going in at a time. They sit around the cabinet table with the PM, who then gives a speech before outlining areas of policy where...