David Cameron decides no inquiry needed into Jeremy Hunt
Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt
Jeremy Hunt appears to be in the clear after the PM decides no inquiry is needed.
Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that there will be no inquiry into whether the Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt broke the ministerial code. The announcement from No.10 came shortly after Hunt was questioned at the Leveson Inquiry.
Hunt came under pressure last month to resign following the revelations of text and email messages from his former special advisor Adam Smith and News Corporation head of public affairs Frederic Michel. Smith resigned the day after, and both subsequently appeared at Leveson.
Yesterday Hunt admitted he was ‘sympathetic’ towards the News Corporation takeover bid for BSkyB but is insistent that he acted impartial throughout. News Corp decided to pull the bid following the phone-hacking revelations last year.
Hunt added that his views of the bid and the company as a whole was widely known and therefore he has nothing to hide.
Labour’s Harriet Harman told BBC News that it’s ‘deplorable’ for the PM to keep someone in his cabinet who ‘broke the ministerial code’.
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He makes me laugh. Who is he fooling?
He hires the Colson bloke to ‘get close to the press’ there is no other reason for that. Then has this farce of a sharade and still thinks no one can see how the Tories and co have gone on.
I think they should also be looking at ITV as well as there was a time when even in the face of STV/CTV/UTV showing regional ITV still works ITVplc said they wanted regionality cut back and Ofcom said ‘how quick do you want us to do it for you?’
Makes you wonder why Hunt is so keen on a new regional network when there is a perfectly good one already there, only slightly damaged by Greed of Granada.