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Kevin Brennan

Main Page: Kevin Brennan (Labour - Cardiff West)
Thursday 30th June 2011

(13 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Chris Bryant Portrait Chris Bryant (Rhondda) (Lab)
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How on earth did we—and I mean all of us, not just the Minister—become so spineless as to allow a company whose directors not only failed in their fiduciary duties to prevent criminality at the News of the World, but actually participated in its cover-up, to hold dominion over such a vast swathe of the media in this country? No other country in the world would allow somebody to have so much power.

Chris Bryant Portrait Chris Bryant
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Apart, perhaps, from Italy. Why on earth do we allow it?