Public Confidence in the Media and Police Debate
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Clive Efford
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(13 years, 5 months ago)
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Mr Speaker
Order. May I remind the House that when Members refer to other Members they should do so by referring to their constituencies, rather than by name?
Clive Efford (Eltham) (Lab)
When the Prime Minister was Leader of the Opposition, was phone hacking discussed in any of his meetings with John Yates or any other Metropolitan police officer?
The Prime Minister
I have had a range of meetings with John Yates over the past year, mostly about terrorism—[Interruption.] I do not recall every single conversation that I have had; you would be mad to pretend that you do. You would need to be superhuman to remember every conversation that you have. I do know that almost all the conversations that I have had with John Yates over the past year have been about terrorist issues. The key point about my chief of staff’s e-mail was that he was trying to ensure that the police did not do anything inappropriate.