Public Confidence in the Media and Police Debate
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Toby Perkins
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(13 years, 4 months ago)
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The Prime Minister
The Opposition do not like hearing about it because they know that they had people working in Downing street whose conduct was absolutely despicable. That is a contrast they cannot avoid.
Toby Perkins (Chesterfield) (Lab)
The Prime Minister seems to be suggesting that his appointment of Andy Coulson was a huge success. In fact, Sir Paul Stephenson has made it clear that that appointment prevented him from giving information to the Prime Minister that he would otherwise have given. Is it not fundamentally obvious to everyone that the Prime Minister made a dramatic error of judgment in appointing Andy Coulson, not with the benefit of—
Mr Speaker
Order. Questions are becoming longer and longer, and they need to get shorter.