"Des Browne [the defence secretary] needs to urgently explain how the extract from this speech could so clearly contradict stated government policy on a new warhead..
A Bank spokesman said: "It is stated government policy that there will be a renegotiation and national referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union at some point.
His document extolled the "breakneck speed of change in the technology" and stated, "Government attempts to regulate [the Internet] are likely to be outmoded by the time they are finally enacted".
Charles Saumarez Smith, chief executive of the Royal Academy of Arts, said: "At a time when it is stated government policy to encourage more philanthropy to the arts, it is completely ridiculous to provide limits to the amounts that are given".
The "Buy Chinese" doctrine has always been in the Chinese law which stated government procurement cannot use imported goods and services.
Despite the definitive statement from his own Minister for Schools some months earlier, he did not categorically rule out the teaching of creationism in school science, a move that would have added considerable weight to the publicly stated government position.
