Responding to reports in The Observer that reveal Mayor Boris Johnson dined at Rupert Murdoch’s Mayfair home last Tuesday night, a spokesman for Hacked Off said: After the revelations unearthed during Leveson, you might think that senior politicians had learnt their lesson about holding secret assignations with newspaper bosses. Yet it appears that Boris Johnson just… Read more »
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Guardian editor tells Leveson abuses ‘would not have happened without industry dominance of News Corporation’
Many of the abuses of press power heard at the Leveson Inquiry would not have happened without the industry dominance of News Corporation, the editor of the Guardian has said. Alan Rusbridger - who stood up in court today to deliver the closing submission of publisher Guardian News & Media Limited – said the Murdoch-owned News… Read more »
Former cabinet minister says exposure of his private life ‘small price to pay’ for press freedom
Former cabinet minister David Mellor has said the exposure of his private live was a “small price to pay” for press freedom. Mellor – secretary of state for national heritage under John Major – resigned in 1992 shortly after his affair with actress Antonia de Sancha was reported in the Sun. The politician said details… Read more »
Ed Miliband: News International controls ‘too much’ of Britain’s newspaper market
Murdoch-owned News International has “too much” control of Britain’s newspaper market, Ed Miliband has told the Leveson Inquiry. The Labour leader said today the “arrogance” of Rupert Murdoch’s company came from its 34 percent market share. He asked Lord Justice Leveson to consider a limit on cross-media ownership and said it had been included in… Read more »
Murdoch ‘asked’ John Major to change European policy during private dinner
Rupert Murdoch allegedly asked John Major to change European policy during a private dinner, the Leveson Inquiry has heard. The former Conservative prime minister said he was asked by the proprietor to reconsider the government’s position on Europe, or his papers would not back the party in the 1997 general election. He told the inquiry he had… Read more »
Gordon Brown denies giving The Sun permission to run story on his son’s medical condition
Former prime minister Gordon Brown has denied giving the Sun permission to run a story on his son’s medical condition. Brown told the Leveson Inquiry today the NHS Fife board had sent him a letter of apology, explaining it was highly likely medical details about his son Fraser’s cystic fibrosis were leaked to the press… Read more »