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  • 30 May 2012

    Vince, Matthew, Craig and Brian

    In the course of his evidence to the Leveson inquiry, Vince Cable has come across his own “adviser problem” – even if it’s of a very different order to the one faced by Jeremy Hunt.

  • 24 May 2012

    Scapegoated or misunderstood? Hunt spad speaks

    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.

  • 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.

  • 30 Apr 2012

    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.

  • 30 Apr 2012

    Speaker compounds Cameron’s Hunt problems

    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.

  • 27 Apr 2012

    Hunt: ‘I must see what James thinks’

    Was Jeremy Hunt really teasing when he ended a meeting saying: “I must just see what James thinks about all this”?

  • 26 Apr 2012

    Snappish Murdoch and who will judge Hunt?

    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.

  • 25 Apr 2012

    Hunt safe for now; Murdoch done for day

    Jeremy Hunt’s immediate chances of survival are looking a bit better than I would’ve guessed this morning.

  • 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.

  • 9 Jan 2012
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    “How can you calculate the long-term returns on the Olympic facilities when you don’t know whether a newly-built stadium will turn out to be a popular sports centre or the next Millennium Dome?”

  • 13 Dec 2011

    Huhne to Cabinet: I should have been consulted

    Cabinet had a group therapy session today on Europe. Lib Dems shared their pain. Conservatives explained their difficulties. On the whole, there was a combined effort one Cabinet minister said to “keep down the heat”.

  • 7 Apr 2010
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    Tory culture spokesman, Jeremy Hunt, says the proposed rise in National Insurance will cost “hundreds of thousands of jobs” – but is he right?