Leveson Inquiry
Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister
12:38 pm
Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith, Labour)
On the key issue of reference to the Competition Commission, the Secretary of State did not take independent advice, so his protestations that he did not always act in Mr Murdoch’s interests sound rather lame. Is he not in fact following his own office’s advice to Murdoch, which is to find some political cover for a decision that he had already taken?