Q: Does the UK government think Anne Sacoolas was covered by diplomatic immunity?
The PMOS says the government’s view is that she should come back to face justice.
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The PMOS says the government will consider the recommendations made by the migration advisory committee in a report coming this week, and then bring forward an immigration bill in due course.
Asked about the US refusal to extradite the US diplomat’s wife accused of killing Harry Dunn in a road accident, the PMOS says the PM sees this as a denial of justice.
What more will the government do?
We said on Friday that we were urgently looking at our options, the PMOS says. He says this point will be made to Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, when he visits the UK this week.
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The PM will be speaking shortly at the UK’s commemorative ceremony for Holocaust Memorial Day, the PMOS says.
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The briefing is taking place in 9 Downing Street. These briefings used to be held in the Commons, but No The arrangements this year, ostensibly to make it easier for officials to brief journalists, as well as the PMOS (prime minister’s official spokesman.)
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The spokesman starts by reading out a list of what the PM and other ministers are doing today. 6. am EST
: Downing Street lobby briefing
I am at the No 29 lobby briefing, where the prime minister’s spokesman, James Slack, is briefing journalists.
In the past these briefings were embargoed until they were over. But the rules were changed last week, and so now I can live blog from the meeting.
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