Public Confidence in the Media and Police Debate
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Bill Esterson
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Public Confidence in the Media and Police
Bill Esterson Excerpts(13 years, 3 months ago)
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The Prime Minister
There is no real defence of that sort. There is going to be a police investigation—it is under way—that will ask exactly who was culpable and who knew what, when. After that is over, the second stage of the judicial inquiry will go over all that information again, not requiring the bar of criminal prosecution, and perhaps then we will get the real evidence of who knew what, when. However, we could not have tougher processes to get to the answers that people want.
Bill Esterson (Sefton Central) (Lab)
Will the Prime Minister define for us what he regards as an appropriate conversation between him and News International about BSkyB?
The Prime Minister
I thought Rebekah Brooks defined it excellently—one that you could also repeat in front of a Select Committee.