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Any other DUers watching Cameron at the Leveson Inquiry? (Original Post) malaise Jun 2012 OP
I don't have the heart to watch it right now pinboy3niner Jun 2012 #1
It's amazing how much these men malaise Jun 2012 #2
Summary of themorning session malaise Jun 2012 #3
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm! malaise Jun 2012 #4

malaise

(269,144 posts)
3. Summary of themorning session
Thu Jun 14, 2012, 09:04 AM
Jun 2012
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jun/14/david-cameron-leveson-inquiry-live
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Cameron denied any "overt or covert" deals for the support of a newspaper.

• Cameron met Rebekah Brooks 19 times, James Murdoch 15 times and Rupert Murdoch 10 times while in opposition, the inquiry heard.

• Cameron listed journalists who were close friends, including the Times's Daniel Finkelstein and Sarah Vine, the wife of education secretary Michael Gove.

• ASun journalist and a prison officer are among three people arrested by Scotland Yard in investigation into payments to police and public officials.

• The CPS has said it would not be in the public interest to prosecute Guardian journalist David Leigh over comments made about phone hacking.

malaise

(269,144 posts)
4. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
Thu Jun 14, 2012, 09:30 AM
Jun 2012

2.26pm: Cameron says he does not recall any knowledge of the BSkyB bid before it was publicly announced.

Jeremy Hunt sent Cameron four notes on the BSkyB bid, the inquiry hears.

2.25pm: Cameron says he discussed the merger with the chancellor George Osborne on the day Vince Cable was stripped of responsibility for the role, but cannot recall other conversations. However, they talk about lots of things so it is possible, he adds.

2.23pm: Cameron is asked about the BSkyB bid.

"I don't think you should stand in the way of coporate moves unless there's a public interest against it," he says.

He acknowledges that the merger was a "political hot potato" and says "half of the Tory press was against it".

2.18pm: Cameron says he does not recall talking to Rebekah Brooks about phone hacking in December 2010.

It took the "cataclysmic revelations" of the Guardian's Milly Dowler story in July 2011 for the "whole thing to be opened up," he adds

2.17pm: Cameron says he had several conversations with Coulson about his resignation.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jun/14/david-cameron-leveson-inquiry-live

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