Cameron clears Hunt after Leveson
Gary Gibbon blogs on Jeremy Hunt’s appearance at the Leveson inquiry.
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David Cameron is standing by his Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt despite claims that he misled Parliament over his handling of News Corporation’s bid for BSkyB.
Gary Gibbon blogs on Jeremy Hunt’s appearance at the Leveson inquiry.
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 “tantamount to killing the deal.” But the real interest so far will be the text exchanges on the day Vince Cable’s sting by the Telegraph was fully disclosed.
Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt gives the Leveson inquiry into media ethics an insight into the level of pressure exerted on his department by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation.
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.
Jeremy Hunt, told the prime minister “our media sector will suffer for years” if they blocked the BSkyB bid. Weeks later, he was given responsibility for the bid. Channel 4 News politics editor, Gary Gibbon, is on the case.
Labour steps up demands for Jeremy Hunt to resign amid fresh claims the Culture Secretary colluded with Rupert Murdoch’s empire in a bid to block a public inquiry into phone hacking.
Leveson: a News Corp lobbyist’s email suggests that Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt asked him for private advice about the government’s stance on phone-hacking.
Follow David Cameron’s statement to the House of Commons on Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s handling of the failed BSkyB bid with Channel 4 News’s live blog. You can watch the Prime Minister’s statement or read updates here.
The prime minister couldn’t have been clearer, repeating on the Marr programme yesterday that he saw the Leveson inquiry as the right place for Jeremy Hunt’s immediate future to be decided.
Prime Minister David Cameron tells MPs he has seen no evidence that Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt acted improperly over the failed BSkyB bid.
“You know things are bad when the PM has to come out mentioning this level of serious misdemeanour in order to try to clear the air.”
Was Jeremy Hunt really teasing when he ended a meeting saying: “I must just see what James thinks about all this”?
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.
Jeremy Hunt’s immediate chances of survival are looking a bit better than I would’ve guessed this morning.