Leveson Inquiry

Witness Statements and Hearing Transcripts:

14 June 2012:

Other witness statements: module 3module 2 | module 1 |

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David Cameron at the Leveson inquiry

• Self-regulation ‘not working’; statutory intervention worrying
• ’I can’t recall reading Hunt memo supporting BSkyB bid’
• Cannot recall asking Coulson for assurances after NYT story
• Says Coulson was ‘clearly a controversial appointment’
• ’No independent verificiation of Coulson’s assurances’
• Brooks text to Cameron: professionally we’re in this together
• ’No overt or covert deal with newspapers’
• ’Inquiry is a cathartic moment for press and politicians’
• ‘Politicans and the press have grown ‘too close’
• ‘I don’t think the regulatory system … works’

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