Public Confidence in the Media and Police Debate
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Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
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Public Confidence in the Media and Police
Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford Excerpts(13 years, 5 months ago)
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The Prime Minister
It is very simple: tell the truth to the police and to the inquiry.
Nicola Blackwood (Oxford West and Abingdon) (Con)
Does the Prime Minister agree that having failed the victims in 2006, when the Met and the Government ignored the Information Commissioners’s Office’s warnings, and having failed the victims in 2009, when the Met’s eight-hour review dismissed evidence in its own possession, we should not fail them now by simply apportioning blame? What we need is real reform of our police, our media and our politics.
The Prime Minister
My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The fact is that we can go back over these reports and over the missed warnings, and the inquiry will be able to do that too, and we should use that information and use this once-in-a-generation chance to try to get media regulation right.