Prime Minister Gordon Brown comes to Maidstone
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Gordon Brown joins Kent people outside the Corn Exchange in Maidstone
Picture: Matt Walker
Prime Minister Gordon Brown at the exclusive KM meeting at the Corn Exchange, Maidstone
Picture: Matt Walker
KM political editor Paul Francis meets Gordon Brown and Kent people at the exclusive meeting in Maidstone
Picture: Matt Walker
Questions on Kent
International Gateway, Maidstone Hospital and the war in
Afghanistan were fired at Prime Minister Gordon Brown at an
exclusive KM Group-organised event.
Mr Brown was at the Corn
Exchange in Maidstone on Thursday for a question and answer
session with an audience of around 50 people invited by us.
~ For all
the details of the visit and how Mr Brown answer the questions, go
to our special report >>>
The event started with an short
interview by KM Group political editor Paul Francis who asked Mr
Brown about bonuses to MOD officials. In response Mr Brown promised
an enquiry was under way.
~ Read
Paul's blog on Mr Brown's visit >>>
Next to question the PM was Nina
Babington-Browne, whose son Capt Ben Babington-Browne died while on
active service in Afghanistan in July. She asked whether the
Government was planning to increase funding to support the
army.
A campaigner against Kent
International Gateway, Ray Saunders, asked for the Government
to look at the way sites are chosen for rail freight depots and for
an assurance that the terrorism threat posed by KIG would be looked
at seriously.
Mr Brown promised to get the Rt Hon
Lord Adonis, the transport secretary, to write to the
campaign group. He added that the government were adopting a
new planning regime to cut speculative transactions by
developers.
Audio: Prime Minister
Gordon Brown explains why he believes troops should be
well-equipped
Akbar Sooma, an A&E consultant
from Maidstone hospital and BMA representative, asked the
Prime Minister for guarantees maternity services would remain at
Maidstone Hospital and how campaigners could overturn the decision
made in 2004.
Mr Brown said it was a matter for
local health authorities.
He added: "I know how controversial
this is. We want to provide the best range of services and choices
where people have their babies.
He said that if there were new
arguments and research that should be part of any consultation.
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For all the details of the visit and how Mr Brown answer the
questions, go to our special report >>>
Thursday, November 12 2009
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