Ministerial Code (Culture Secretary)
Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government
3:30 pm
Frank Dobson (Holborn and St Pancras, Labour)
Does the Prime Minister not accept that all his problems spring from his original misjudgment? Having taken responsibility for the News Corp bid for BSkyB away from the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills because he had expressed antipathy towards News Corporation, it was stupid of the Prime Minister to hand that responsibility over to the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, who was already on record as being in favour of the bid.