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Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt pledges to give the Leveson inquiry all private texts and emails he sent to his special adviser, as pressure grows for an inquiry into his handling of the BSkyB bid.
Gary Gibbon
A more snappish Rupert Murdoch in evidence at Leveson today. The man who said yesterday that anyone in public life was fair game for media attention today complains about being harrassed by snappers and reporters when he left his home beside Rebekah Brooks last year.
On his second day of giving evidence at the Leveson Inquiry, Rupert Murdoch will face questions over the allegations of phone hacking and bribery at the heart of the scandal that led to the closure of the News of the World. Follow all the action with Channel 4 News’ live blog and have your say here.
Rupert Murdoch tells the Leveson inquiry the News of the World was involved in a phone-hacking “cover-up”. But former NoW legal manager Tom Crone accuses Mr Murdoch of a “shameful lie”.
Pressure grows on Jeremy Hunt as top civil servant repeatedly refuses to confirm that he was telling the truth in his account of the proposed BSkyB takeover.
Gary Gibbon
Jeremy Hunt’s immediate chances of survival are looking a bit better than I would’ve guessed this morning.
Gary Gibbon
All in all though, it was the documents put on-line that fired up yesterday’s session and triggered the furore around Jeremy Hunt’s position. Today looks like being different. The documents Rupert Murdoch refers to in his written statement don’t look like they are seismic. The action, for now, is back in Westminster, even if the anthropological interest is at the high court.
Gary Gibbon
Channel 4 News politics editor Gary Gibbon on Rupert Murdoch’s first exchanges at the Leveson Inquiry, in which the media mogul discusses conversations with Margaret Thatcher
Gordon Brown calls for Rupert Murdoch to correct his testimony to the Leveson inquiry after the media mogul claimed the former prime minister made threats when the Sun backed the Tories in 2009.
James Murdoch appears before the Leveson Inquiry today, ahead of his father Rupert who will give evidence for two days on Wednesday and Thursday. Murdoch Jnr is due up before the Inquiry between 10am and 4.30pm. We’ll be live blogging all the action here and you can have your say on the day’s events as they unfold in the box below.
James Murdoch resigns as chairman of BSkyB, saying he does not want to become a “lightning rod” for the company because of ongoing investigations into News International.
Gary Gibbon
“I can’t remember when select committees have held such potential sway over such a high-profile international business career.”
Jon Snow
Murdoch’s power – how could it have grown so over-weening on our watch, asks Jon Snow.
The police officer leading the investigation into illicit payments by the Sun says there was a network of corrupt public officials receiving money, as Home Affairs Correspondent Andy Davies reports.
The new Sun on Sunday newspaper is to launch from this Sunday in the wake of the closure of the News of the World. Channel 4 News FactCheck asks if the former NoW staff are rising again.