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  • 31 May 2012

    Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt gives evidence at the Leveson inquiry into media standards. Add your voice to the live blog.

  • 31 May 2012

    Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt takes the stand at the Leveson inquiry to answer allegations that include bias and misleading parliament over his handling of News Corp’s failed BSkyB bid.

  • 28 May 2012

    Blair at Leveson – armed to the smiling white teeth

    Mr Blair gave off the aura of a wise consultant giving pro-bono advice with Olympian detachment and objectivity. He’d waived his normal fee and was happy to help.

  • 28 May 2012

    Former prime minister Tony Blair gives evidence to the Leveson inquiry into media ethics. Follow the live blog and add your voice.

  • 28 May 2012

    As former prime minister Tony Blair gives evidence to the Leveson inquiry, a protester bursts in and accuses him of being a war criminal, while he denies ever agreeing a deal with Rupert Murdoch.

  • 25 May 2012

    On the day David Cameron announced the establishment of an inquiry into media ethics in the midst of the phone hacking scandal, his communications director had dinner with a News Corp lobbyist.

  • 25 May 2012

    Jeremy Hunt’s former aide Adam Smith is to make his second appearance at Leveson, after it emerged that the culture secretary favoured News Corp’s bid for BSkyB weeks before he was put in charge.

  • 15 May 2012

    Adam Smith, Fred Michel to appear at Leveson

    As the Leveson Inquiry calls Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s former adviser, Adam Smith, to give evidence, Channel 4 News Politics Editor, Gary Gibbon, ponders a potential strategy for the minister.

  • 14 May 2012

    Ex-Daily Mirror political editor and spin doctor Alastair Campbell returns to the Leveson inquiry to discuss politicians and their relationship with the “putrid” media he now distances himself from.

  • 11 May 2012

    – Ms Brooks commiserated by Cameron, Osborne on her 2011 resignation – Tony Blair attended Rebekah Brooks’s 40th birthday party – Former Sun editor ‘not embarrassed’ by being Murdoch’s ‘priority’ – Email shows Culture Sec Jeremy Hunt sought phone hacking advice from NI PR chief – Brooks defends ‘Sarah’s Law’ campaign We now have the…

  • 10 May 2012

    Follow tweets and analysis from Channel 4 News as Andy Coulson, David Cameron’s former head of communications, gives evidence to the Leveson inquiry into media standards.

  • 28 Apr 2012

    Until the Leveson inquiry into media tactics hears from the UK Culture Secretary on the BSkyB bid there’s no point in Conservatives running a parallel investigation, the Deputy Chair tells Channel 4.

  • 26 Apr 2012

    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.

  • 25 Apr 2012

    Rupert Murdoch appears before the Leveson Inquiry, following his son James’ appearance yesterday which unearthed evidence that Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt ‘secretly supported’ News Corp’s bid for BSkyB. Mr Murdoch Snr is due to take the stand today from 10am to 4.30pm and on Thursday. 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.

  • 24 Apr 2012

    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.

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