Witness Statements and Hearing Transcripts:
29 May 2012:
Theresa May MP - Exhibit TM1.2 - 1.3 -1.4 - 1.5 - 1.6 - 1.7 - 1.8 - 1.9 - 2 - 3 | Transcripts: Morning Hearing 29 May 2012 | Afternoon Hearing 29 May 2012 (Michael Gove MP: Page 1) |
Other witness statements: module 3 | module 2 | module 1 |
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Leveson inquiry: Theresa May and Michael Gove
• Gove: Murdoch ‘impressive and significant’ figure
• Says he didn’t learn of Sky bid before it became public
• ’I felt a degree of sympathy for Coulson having to resign twice’
• Free speech ‘means some people are going to get offended’
• Free schools ‘could’ become profit-making
• May ‘surprised’ by Stephenson’s resignation from Met
• New guidelines on police-press contacts being drawn up
• ACPO has drafted new guidelines on hospitality
• May told Met of ‘concern’ over Wallis links in July 2011
• May ‘not briefed about phone hacking before September 2010′
• Did not read September 2010 NY Times article on hacking
