Vince Cable has claimed News Corporation made “veiled threats” against the Liberal Democrat Party over the BSkyB bid. The business secretary – in charge of overseeing the proposed takeover until December 2010 – told the Leveson Inquiry today colleagues had approached him claiming his party would be “done over” by News International newspapers if the… Read more »
The Leveson Inquiry has heard Jeremy Hunt and other officials knew of special adviser Adam Smith’s contact with News Corporation over the BSkyB bid. Smith said officials in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport asked him to liase with News Corp lobbyist Frederic Michel over various issues but admitted they may not have known… Read more »
David Cameron was aware Jeremy Hunt supported the News Corporation BSkyB takeover weeks before he was appointed to oversee the bid, the Leveson Inquiry has heard. The inquiry was shown a memo from Hunt to Cameron, sent in November 2010, in which the Culture Secretary championed News Corporation’s bid for the remaining shares in BSkyB…. Read more »
Lord Justice Leveson has warned politicians not to disclose information on the contact between Jeremy Hunt and News Corporation before evidence has been heard before his inquiry. Speaking today, the judge said ministers discussing evidence in the House of Commons before the Culture Secretary and others have appeared before him could “undermine the fairness of… Read more »
**From Comment is Free/Guardian by Brian Cathcart Murdoch’s persona is ingenious, but News Corp’s corrupting influence is laid bare in cold detail in the Jeremy Hunt emails Rupert Murdoch’s critics, watching him testify, were no doubt thinking: “The devious old bastard. He forgets so selectively and he dissembles so artfully.” And what were Murdoch’s many… Read more »
