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Call for inquiry into Jeremy Hunt office’s role in BSkyB bid
Adam Smith, Mr Hunt’s special adviser, resigned on Wednesday and issued a statement saying that his activities “went too far”. The scandal was prompted after News Corporation released more than 170...
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I see a familiar look of fear on the faces of David Cameron’s ministers
How do the public know what they know about Rupert Murdoch? Through the media. Which means that pretty much everything they know about him comes from his opponents or his friends. There is no middle...
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It’s a poor field in the Under-a-Bus Stakes
After a disgracefully extended period of abstinence, the Conservative appetite for its sport of choice returns. The ancient Tory game of What if the Guv’nor Fell Under a Bus? is back, and hallelujah...
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Hunt should face ‘immediate’ inquiry, says former Whitehall standards adviser
Sir John Bourn, the former independent adviser on the Ministerial Code, said there was no need for David Cameron to wait for the Leveson Inquiry to examine the Culture Secretary before beginning his...
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Cameron’s performance was spectacularly ill-judged
Righteous indignation can be all very well when your case is strong. But when a government’s case is weak as it is on Jeremy Hunt, BSkyB, Adam Smith and Fred Michel it is much better to deal with any...
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MPs urge ruling on Murdoch and BSkyB
News Corporation, which owns 39 per cent of the satellite broadcaster, was accused with its newspaper subsidiary News International of “wilful blindness” over the phone-hacking scandal at the News of...
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Tony Blair facing questions over links to Rupert Murdoch empire at Leveson...
The former Prime Minister is likely to face scrutiny over whether his links with Mr Murdoch and News International became “closer than was wise”, as his former lieutenant Lord Mandelson told the...
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Coalition at war over Jeremy Hunt and BSkyB
The Deputy Prime Minister has repeatedly confronted David Cameron about the refusal to order an inquiry into the Culture Secretary, it emerged yesterday. Sources close to Mr Clegg took the unusual step...
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Coalition At War
MORNING BRIEFING – By Benedict Brogan (Daily Telegraph). The Coalition is at war over Nick Clegg’s decision to allow his MPs a free vote on the investigation of Jeremy Hunt. We’ve splashed on it – as...
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Dave at Leveson
MORNING BRIEFING – By Benedict Brogan (Daily Telegraph). BREAKING: Iain Duncan Smith has just been on Today to talk about our splash: “Get a job, Iain Duncan Smith tells parents on the dole” and his...
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