UK commissioner want outside QC to question bankers
“There are very few barristers and QCs in the Commons with the experience of mounting a detailed and probing line of interrogation.”
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The penultimate day of the Leveson inquiry hears that police are investigating alleged corrupt payments by journalists to prison officers in return for stories.
“There are very few barristers and QCs in the Commons with the experience of mounting a detailed and probing line of interrogation.”
Two tabloid journalists are arrested by detectives investigating corrupt payments to public officials as part of the Metropolitan Police’s wider phone hacking inquiry.
Gary Gibbon blogs on who the Treasury select committee may want to call to explain themselves.
Former Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond tells MPs he did not believe he was “instructed” by the Bank of England to submit lower borrowing rates during the 2008 financial crisis.
Prime Minister David Cameron reveals a full parliamentary committee of inquiry, chaired by Treasury select committee chairman Andrew Tyrie, will be set up in the wake of the Libor scandal.
The police watchdog launches an investigation into the conduct of a senior police officer in relation to his alleged knowledge that Milly Dowler’s mobile phone was hacked by the News of the World.
Remember when Gordon Brown was claimed to have pleaded for an Obama face-to-face and didn’t get it – he was roasted by the press and (as we discovered at Leveson) very unusually lost his temper. Well, David Cameron’s bi-laterals at this world gathering will be with the leaders of Russia and Indonesia. He’s hoping fora chat with India’s prime minister but it wouldn’t be a long one if it happened.
“If you’re a political animal and have never read Caro, I urge you to do so.”
The prime minister’s evidence to the Leveson inquiry reveals a text from former Sun editor Rebekah Brooks saying “professionally, we’re definitely in this together”.
Could the Lib Dem stance on Jeremy Hunt threaten cross-party cooperation when it comes to reform of the House of Lords?
A Labour motion accusing Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt of breaching the ministerial code during the proposed BSkyB takeover is defeated.
Sir John Major tells the Leveson inquiry that Rupert Murdoch instructed him before the 1997 election that his newspapers would not back him unless he changed his policies on Europe.
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 – George Osborne’s appearance belongs strongly in the former camp.
Gordon Brown tells Leveson how he keeps calm in a crisis – even when facing News International executives.