Leveson: much more wrangling ahead
All parties involved in the press regulation debate want the same broad approach: a royal charter. They just can’t agree what should be in it – and there is a lot of ground to be
All parties involved in the press regulation debate want the same broad approach: a royal charter. They just can’t agree what should be in it – and there is a lot of ground to be
As an embryonic new potential royal press intrusion victim was announced to the world, the Commons debated the findings of the Leveson report, Gary Gibbon writes.
The PM is said to have promised a draft bill along the lines of what Lord Justice Leveson asked for, but it looks like a measure to keep opinion on-side and look willing.
David Cameron has asked Nick Clegg to throw him a lifebelt over press regulation – Nick Clegg has decided to watch the PM struggle in the water instead and is giving a separate statement on
The CPS has announced it intends to bring charges over phone-hacking against Andy Coulson, former no. 10 communications boss, as well as Rebekah Brooks and 6 others. But might things go even
He’s been speaking very much in generalities, the sessions normally close with this sort of stuff, not start with it.
There was a period, starting when the contacts between Jeremy Hunt, his adviser and News International’s lobbyist were published, when No. 10 was extremely agitated about today and about the
If the political witnesses to Leveson divide into two schools of appraoch – the Blair and Brown schools, seminar/reasonableness school versus crockery-smashing/conviction school –
Gordon Brown tells Leveson how he keeps calm in a crisis – even when facing News International executives.
As billed, Jeremy Hunt is emphasising the extra and unpopular references and burdens he was willing to put on News Corp over their bid for all of BSkyB. He quotes James Murdoch saying they were